Both pedestrians and drivers are angry with the cyclists

The coronacrisis has led to an increase in cyclists on Norwegian roads. But the sharing of roads with cars and pedestrians creates frustration and potentially dangerous situations according to a new study.

Cheaper diet soda weakened sales of sugary soda

No, a woman’s hymen does not reveal whether she has had sexual intercourse or not

The rodents are back: Surprising amounts of mice in Eastern Norway

90 per cent of those who died with COVID-19 in Norway also had a chronic disease

More than half of them had cardiovascular diseases, according to preliminary numbers from the first three months of the pandemic.

Norwegian girls are reaching puberty earlier

Researchers are concerned about the trend.

Not even a Nordic welfare system protects children from the effects of a tough childhood

Do men and women have different circadian rhythms?

Svalbard provides clues about Earth’s largest mass extinction

Why are teenagers drinking less alcohol than before?

Researchers have examined the burial mound where the Gokstad Viking ship was found. What they found surprised them.

Researchers get a hint about how the brain matures

Here’s how the beliefs of Christians and atheists change over a lifetime

Norwegian brain researcher: You don’t need to worry about getting Alzheimer's if you’re a little short on sleep

Problems with vision after a stroke often overlooked

Norwegian researchers are developing a new method for detecting breast cancer

Artificial intelligence can help speed the detection of breast cancer. Urgent examinations will be undertaken sooner.

Online therapy can help people with sleep problems

European female ISIS supporters feel like strangers in their own country

Promising treatments for COVID-19 were reported early on. So why haven’t there been bigger breakthroughs?

Patients demand testing of three food additives

Should you get the flu vaccine this year?

Norway has secured access to a COVID-19 vaccine. So what is it actually made of?

Historic amount of flooding in Europe during the last 30 years

When a several-hundred-metre-high tsunami hit Northern Norway

How the corona crisis contributes to new types of crime

On academia and diversity: It wasn’t overt racism, but I have been sidelined.

Employees at Norwegian kindergartens really enjoy their work

On average, these employees stay at the same workplace for nine years.

Geologists want people to help them hunt for meteor craters

How dirty and stinky were medieval cities?

Cardiologists sound the alarm about e-cigarettes

Women who use anabolic steroids encounter masculinizing side effects

Stone age handprint found in Norway’s northernmost county

These measures can slow lice infestations on farmed salmon

The tiny island of Hitra was home to a large-scale cannery — without electricity or running water

Is it possible to lose weight while building muscle?

Your blood is a power meal for mosquitoes

Is this the world’s simplest mill?

The export of millstones was probably a major industry in Norway during the Viking Age.

You can build strength without weights

16 times entrepreneurs tried to start car production in Norway

«Pandemics affect women and men differently»

The Norwegian university started a coronavirus test factory and supplied test facilities around the country

Here’s how you can make your own compost

How can Denmark better detect children 0-5 years with developmental and behavioral problems?

This method identified the sickest coronavirus patients best

What happens when episodes of violence come up in family counselling?

When bathing was medicine:
What can we learn from doctors who promoted sea bathing back in the day?

What is soil, anyway?

Did you know that the soil in fields is made up mostly of rock, while planting soil from the garden centre is almost pure moss?

We need to talk more about how we want to die, says researcher

Young social welfare users: Mandatory activities are ok, but benefit sanctions can feel unfair

Coronavirus and training in gyms: Misunderstandings about Randomized Training Trial

Small additives can make old antibiotics work again

The hunt for a shell with a left-hand twist

One summer long ago, two children found a naked hermit crab. They wanted to save it. But it would prove to be difficult.

Microplastics generated by road traffic end up in the Arctic

Norwegian coronavirus “experiment” was misleading. People who train in gyms can infect each other with COVID-19.

An undocumented message about it being safe to work out in gyms during the coronapandemic has been disseminated.

Chinese COVID-19 vaccine candidate gets USD $66 million in development funds

Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?

Studies have suggested that the ketogenic diet may work against a variety of diseases, such as epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease and cancer.

Researchers found higher level of anxiety and depression in people who exercised less during COVID-19 lockdown

New research supports Thor Heyerdahl's theory on South Americans in the Pacific

Fighting fake science - one duplicated or fake image at a time

Low levels of competence among those who work with the intellectually disabled

What did the Vikings really eat?

Black Lives Matter and the archaeology of heritage commemorating bigoted white men

Norway needs coronavirus-style measures to start the green shift along the coast

Researcher: When doctors talk to girls and women who have undergone female genital cutting, they must talk about sexuality

Does immigration lead to less trust in a society?

Norwegian researchers have tested music therapy for chronic fatigue

World food production depends on phosphorus. Are we about to run out?

What kind of person supports illegal hunting of Norway’s wolves?

Immigrants and men with low incomes and low education levels more likely to die of COVID-19

The coronavirus pandemic has taught us something important: Technocrats are no longer precautionary

Archaeologists have found astonishingly well-preserved gear from a fisherman who lived 5,000 years ago

Is it ok to publish racist representations if your intention was for it to be funny and cute?

Norwegians are wasting less food since the coronavirus crisis

Political controversy over how Norway decides to shoot wolves

If wolves have reached or exceeded target population numbers, is that reason enough to shoot them? The Norwegian parliament recently voted yes to this. The result may be more wolves shot in Norway.

Can a book change your life?

Have you ever read a book that has gripped you so strongly that it affected the way you live or the way you understand yourself?

Moose lower body temperature and heart rate in winter

Now kids and teens in Norway have their own Climate House

Was there a Viking Age in Norway — 2000 years before the Vikings?

Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is now legal for all pregnant women in Norway. But how does it actually work?

“In excellent physical shape”: Football-playing 70-yr-old men have cells that are up to 11 years younger

Norway’s coronavirus tracing app halted by Data Protection Authority – too invasive and not useful

“This reduces our ability to fight the spread of the virus that is happening now”, warns Camilla Stoltenberg, director of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.

The police lack systematic plans to increase expertise, according to new research

Scientists have determined what damaged Edvard Munch's "The Scream"

Public broadcaster's controversial coronavirus article spread disinformation to millions

The Norwegian public broadcaster NRK corrected the original article and published a follow-up. Nonetheless, the contents of their controversial story about the origins of the coronavirus reached millions of people online.

Your brain may be the organ strengthened the most by physical exercise, says neuroscientist

More Norwegians want to grow their own food

Who cares for the men who are left behind?

We need a better understanding of the incel phenomenon in order to prevent radicalisation, writes Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair.

Oceans are at their deepest in 250 million years

Young people probably less individualistic than their parents, despite having grown up in a far more individualistic culture

Swedes' trust in their experts may be dropping, meanwhile, Norwegians do not want open borders to their neighbour

Why do some people confess to crimes they haven’t committed?

Adult children providing care for parents can lose income in the long-term

Chinese and Norwegian scientists have drilled an almost 600-meter deep hole into the Tibetan Plateau. This gives them a window into the past.

Changing masculinity in Norwegian black metal

Here’s how Norway’s public health institute will figure out what to do if the coronavirus flares up again

One in three Norwegian women has taken the morning-after pill

Data on how Norwegians move around allow for a finetuned model of calculating the spread of coronavirus

Cancer drug helped patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME)

Many people on the autism spectrum have too much vitamin B12, which is important for brain development and thinking

Why are fewer Norwegians working than before?

A new solar cycle may be underway

Emil Korsmo’s goal was to beat back weeds. But the wall charts he made of the bothersome plants were beautiful and popular

Why archaeologists call for an immediate Gjellestad Viking ship dig

Anabolic steroid use reported by a third of male substance users

The coronavirus pandemic is now the most-covered topic by the Norwegian media — ever

How long does sex normally last before climaxing?

A new Norwegian sensor will help you sleep better when your sleep is being monitored

Locally produced food and self-sufficiency remain but a dream for most countries

Almost 80 per cent of the world's population depends on imported food. What does this mean in times of crisis?

Obesity genes lowered metabolism

When Norwegian researchers knocked out these genes in mice, the mice became extremely thin, even though they ate as much as their rodent brethren.

Can vitamin D protect you from COVID-19?

We will have pandemics every ten years, Norway’s Minister of Health told a national newspaper. Is that right?

We've taken a closer look at Minister of Health and Care Services Bent Høie’s assertion.

Norwegian beans can replace foreign soy

How do kindergarten staff handle getting angry with a child?

Norwegian-British cancer medicine to be tested on British COVID-19 patients

Norway’s mortality rate during the coronavirus pandemic is probably lower than usual

No solid evidence to support that trigger points exist, says sports professor

Norwegian evidence map may be one of the world's most systematic overviews of research on COVID-19

Building larger and better roads result in more traffic, not fewer traffic jams

Record numbers apply to nursing and medical studies during the coronavirus pandemic

Glacial archaeology: Activity over this mountain pass was at its peak during the Viking Age

Harassing humour in the military begins among the officers

It may contribute to many women leaving the military after the compulsory military service, say researchers.

What happens to a species when it becomes more important to reproduce than to survive?

Why aren't Norwegian women having more than two children?

Fewer educators want to become school principals

Has the principal's job become so burdensome that no one wants it?

Corona crisis packages may result in more layoffs than necessary, economists warn

Norwegian researchers want to make a universal vaccine covering all coronaviruses

Men read as much as women, at least when it comes to audiobooks

A Norwegian virus app to help stop the spread of COVID-19

What news do Norwegians share the most on social media?

Women’s travel behaviour make cities greener

Discovered new species on Svalbard: Britney was an arctic plesiosaur with a tiny head and enormous eyes

Bronze age art hunters: Three friends crack the code for finding petroglyphs, ancient rock carvings

Fewer ear infections at Norwegian emergency rooms after vaccine

Norwegian health minister: “We have control over the corona epidemic”

Here’s how researchers will find out if Norway’s efforts to fight the corona virus work

Swedes trust their experts in the coronavirus crisis

Children born more than three weeks early may have a delayed language development

Global Corona-study led from Norway: Life-saving drugs may be in place this summer

New research on stuttering: Personality is important in deciding which treatment works best

Norwegians support corona measures – but do not trust that the social security system can handle the consequences

A revolution in vaccine development – but will we all benefit?

OPINION: By manipulating the “instruction manuals” that control cell function in our bodies, we will soon be able to combat many diseases, including the new coronavirus outbreak. But in the worst-case scenario, such innovations will only benefit the rich.