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This is why global emissions are falling slightly this year

The increase in CO2 emissions has slowed, but there is still work to be done before emissions reach their peak, researcher says.

Close up of the front and back of the coin.

Norwegian archaeology find of the year: "We were wading through silver coins"

Why do we dream?

Why did some ancient cultures drink urine?

The iconic mushroom is so toxic that drinking reindeer urine was the safer option.

What happens when snakes strike

One quick strike, and a drop of venom turns into a cocktail of chaos inside the body.

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University of Bergen

Ancient proteins reveal new clues about how our ancestors lived

NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology

The negative effect of emotion in climate action

Why are we so squeamish about eating hagfish?

You can save CO₂ by changing when you take a shower

Why the magic mushroom anti-ageing claims are overblown

Why are antidepressants so stigmatised?

Neuroscience finds musicians feel pain differently from the rest of us

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En illustrasjon av Trondheim i middelalderen. Vi ser en rekke trehus med gress på taket tett i tett. I midten lager noen en båt, i front ser vi brygger og vann og noen båter. Til venstre, i midten bakerst og til høyre er det tre kirker.

How dirty and unhygienic were people in the Middle Ages?

Fem barn spiller fotball på en gressbane i sollys.

Why are parents expected to work for free when their kids play sports?

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University of Agder

New study: Children are more active when they attend after-school clubs

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Researcher found giant viruses outside the entrance to her workplace

Institute of Marine Research

See video: Mothers decide when orcas should dive

Side-by-side close-up of a young woman’s eyes with contrasting skin texture and eye colour.

Ageing well takes time

Fine spider silk spread across a rough rock surface in Svalbard.

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Nightmare on the tundra: Svalbard’s eight-legged residents

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NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Robots improved student motivation and helped them perform better

Norwegian Veterinary Institute

Why it's important to monitor bird flu on Svalbard

Nofima The Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research

If you get a little taste, will you like fermented vegetables?

Mann i hvit frakk står med hendene samlet foran en moderne bygning.

Completely ordinary inflammations: "Could be an important piece in understanding Alzheimer's"

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Antikk freske med en kledd skikkelse som holder en stav.

Why did Jesus use a magic wand?

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Snødekt brelandskap med et grønnlig smeltevannsbasseng og flytende isflak.

One of Norway's largest glaciers has split apart due to extensive melting

Sally Rooney, Kneecap, and the fine line between activism and support for terrorism in Denmark

This vulnerable bird has given us some of the world's most luxurious products. Few now remain

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University of Oslo

China’s recipe for growth: Market economy and communism

University of Agder

Why do children drop out of school? And how can older people become less lonely?

NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology

What matters most when improving students' maths skills?

University of Agder

How you can help look after bats

What would happen if the Earth stops rotating?

Kvinne i lys jakke står på en gressplen mellom trær i en park.

Is divorce hereditary?

Bull moose with broad antlers standing in a dense green forest in Norway.

Moose hunting season is in full swing. Here's how hunters can make better decisions

The Five Foolish Virgins tower over the narrowest point of this strait. What is this monument from the Roman era?

Flere brune rotter på brostein ved et metallgjerde.

Researcher: This is the only way to get rid of rats

Did the universe begin at a single point, or has it always been infinite?

One in ten may be taking the wrong dose of this antidepressant

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Pregnancy puts extra strain on the immune system in women with arthritis and lupus

New research shows how the immune system actually behaves throughout pregnancy – cell by cell. In some women, these differences persist even after childbirth.

Researchers documented the nation's mourning for King Harald V

What they found surprised them.

How do drones affect animals and birds?

Drone pilots have to comply with a number of rules and guidelines to avoid disturbing people and animals. But they still lack effective tools to help them do so.

Ungt par som kysser i senga. De har på klær, hun ligger oppå han.

How many times a week should you have sex to get pregnant as quickly as possible?

Kvinne undersøker vaskemidler i en dagligvarebutikk med hyller på begge sider.

Scented cleaning products change indoor air: 'Like standing along a busy road'

May have found the world's oldest anchor in Norway: "An incredibly exciting find"

Researchers may have solved the mystery behind the Ice Age’s enigmatic female figurines

Clear plastic takeaway container lying in dry grass

Can bacteria and larvae break down plastic? The research is now facing scathing criticism

Close up of the front and back of the coin.

Sensational coin discovery: “We have found a national treasure”

Archaeologists have uncovered ancient stone circles at a Norwegian burial site

Johnsen iført hvit kjortel åpner et kjøleskap med medisinsk innhold i bokser.

New study: IBS does not improve with donor faeces

Newborn piglets suckle from their sow in a close-up farm scene.

Why don't we drink pig's milk?

Brown-orange insect with an elongated, segmented body on a white background.

You don’t want to bring these ants home from vacation

Farmer Erik Røed gestures beside vegetable beds in a forested rural garden.

Erik has a preparedness garden: “Having a basement full of canned food is just a joke”

Toril Moe, 75, wearing glasses and a navy puffer jacket outdoors beside a modern building.

How quickly a 70-year-old can become as strong as a 50-year-old

Rare 4,000-year-old gallery grave unearthed in Norway

Bilde av to detektorister og grunneieren til jordet de står på. I hånda holder en av dem en mynt.

Record hoard from the Viking Age: Coin number 5,000 has now been dug up

Blue Ozempic injection pens arranged on a conveyor at Novo Nordisk’s facility in Hillerød, Denmark.

The Myth of Brand Control: the case of Ozempic

King Haakon VIII in ceremonial uniform before an ornate gilded backdrop at the Storting.

Has Norway's new king been given the correct Romen numeral? Is he VIII or IIX? Or the 8th?

A small, chapel-shaped headstone featuring a sculpture and an open book, situated on a lawn in front of mountains and a fence.

Is this Norway’s most unique headstone?

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White mushroom surrounded by moss, grass and fallen leaves in a woodland.

Some mushrooms are extremely poisonous. Why?

Did a King Haakon I actually exist?

Bilde av en hånd som holder en gammel pilspiss. I bakgrunnen skimtes en snøfonn og masse steiner.

The oldest ice is disappearing: The Stone Age is emerging from the melting ice

Norway criticised for taking food from whales and penguins in Antarctica

These strange, mysterious organisms lived in Finnmark 560 million years ago

What would King Haakon and King Harald have been called in the Viking Age? One historian offers a suggestion

Illustration of pink, spiky immune cells on a pale background, with one larger cell at right.

The way we treat autoimmune diseases is rapidly changing

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UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Researchers have created a smart gel that could help prevent tooth loss

NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Conflict with fathers may affect whether teens receive help

Immunotherapy for MS: No difference between the cheap and the expensive variant

We don't know where any of Norway’s early kings were buried

Excited mice herald a new method for more effective cancer vaccines

The struggle of parents who have children with school distress: "It becomes what our whole life is about"

Portrett av forsker Anniken Grønstad i blå bluse mot en mørk blågrønn bakgrunn.

Young employees and working from home: Can be just as good as being in the office, researcher says

Many managers want to cut remote work: Here's what researchers say

King Harald of Norway is dead: Why do we feel so sad when people we don’t know die?

Did life begin on micrometeorites? When researchers added fatty substances, something remarkable happened

Close-up of a bed bug crawling on grey textured fabric beside a zip fastener.

Experts offer their best advice for dealing with bed bugs

Solring rundt solen over skyet himmel, med tretopper i forgrunnen.

What is this glowing ring around the sun?

Oransje, glødende bølgeform mot en svart bakgrunn.

Can a photon be split in two? The answer is pretty wild

Bilde av en mynt

You can now see the first 100 coins from the unique Viking hoard

Bekymret, middelaldrende kvinne på kjøkkenet med hånden mot tinningen.

Study: The brain cleans itself more slowly in people who are starting to become forgetful

Illustration of plastic waste floating across a turquoise ocean, with marine silhouettes below.

The myth of Norway’s plastic leadership: Are we really global leaders in the fight against plastic pollution?

Skolebarn med fargerike sekker samles i skolegården ved en rød teglsteinsbygning.

Researchers' three tips for helping kids thrive at school

Stor gruppe mennesker slåss i et åpent område med fjell i bakgrunnen.

If there was war in Norway for 110 years, how many people were killed in the battles?

En arkeolog sitter på kne og graver ut en grav - vi ser tre skjeletter i jorda.

Found 1,000-year-old graves in Norway: “15 skeletons is far more than we expected”

Linguist: “Maybe we'll be able to talk to whales within 20 years”

Ryttere på hester kjemper eller jager hverandre i et snødekt landskap med kraftig bevegelse og dramatisk stemning.

Historians disagree about how bloody the Norwegian civil wars were

Norwegian students' skills: "I'm concerned, but not surprised," says professor

Close up of pick-and-mix candy

The history of pick & mix is actually quite short – and it started in Scandinavia

Nærbilde av en flått som kryper på en persons hånd.

Meat allergy is becoming more common. Ticks are being blamed

Store steinringer på en fjellknaus.

The stone circles were not made for sacrifices to the gods. They were traces of children at play

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University of Agder

Nobel Prize in Literature: "This bold and boundary-crossing style is a hallmark of her writing”

These employees enjoy their work, but worry about health and safety

Here lies one of the thickest sections of Earth’s crust

Archaeologists have opened a Viking Age ship burial. The most exciting discovery may lie beneath the ship

Personer sorterer og pakker bær ved bord i et stort, enkelt lokale med bøtter og kasser.

How did these Norwegian berries end up in Hull, Newcastle, and London 100 years ago?

En figur i hvitt står ved en klippe mens to nakne skikkelser strekker seg oppover.

Why do we hear so little about demons in Christianity today?

Nærbilde av en gyllen, glinsende kavring foran en uskarp tekstside.

museum favourite

This simple rusk reveals two stories about Norwegian polar history

Arne Jor standing in front of a brick building

Jesus cast out demons, but we rarely hear about it today

Irene Baug sitter ved siden av et stort steinkors som ligger på bakken. I bakgrunnen ses trær og avfallshaugen til det gamle steinkvernsbruddet.

Seven magnificant medieval stone crosses emerged from a waste heap

A screenshot from a streaming service showing a video of two people in a warmly lit room.

Is the new PRT method for chronic pain really a miracle cure?

Pain took over Einar Tørnquist's life, but then he learned something new about his brain

Papirer og en mørk lommebok av skinn ligger på en stol sammen med to gamle, brune kondomer.

museum favourite

Two condoms from 1944 washed ashore from a shipwreck in northern Norway

Participants perform yoga exercises on mats in a park in Lahore during International Yoga Day.

Many Pakistani men want gender equality, but it’s the mother-in-law who decides

museum favourite

En liten pistol i metall ligger over en trykt tekstside med gammelt papir.

First he was killed by a bullet, then he was blown to pieces. The SS chief’s pistol survived

Supermarkedhylle med mange flasker og bokser med olivenolje i Roma.

How to use olive oil correctly

Pale pink anemones clustered on a rocky underwater seamount.

Researchers explored underwater mountains in the Arctic that no one had ever filmed before

Avaldsnes kirke i bakgrunnen, foran ser man muren til den gamle kongsgården fra middelalderen. Utgraving foregår. Til høyre på bildet ser man fjorden, og et skip i fjorden.

A previously unknown medieval royal estate suddenly appeared

When the Russians invaded Chornobyl, the wildlife cameras were still running

"It's actually kind of crazy that a person could have chewed on this 6,000 years ago – and now I'm holding it"

Glass med grønn sellerijuice foran fersk selleri på et lyst bord.

How healthy is celery, really?

Aerial view of a multi-level motorway interchange with bridges, ramps and waterways.

How did the USA go from being a pioneer in road safety to having one of the world’s highest road traffic death rates?

Nærbilde av en av hendene til jentene. Vi ser tydelige fingre, og spor etter rødt stoff rundt - det som en gang var røde ullvotter.

In a box in the basement lay four girls who died in the 1300s, still wearing red mittens on their hands

This is why global emissions
are falling slightly this year

The increase in CO₂ emissions has slowed, but there is still work
to be done before emissions reach their peak, researcher says.

Close up of the front and back of the coin.

Norwegian archaeology find of the year: "We were wading through silver coins"

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University of Bergen

Ancient proteins reveal new clues about how our ancestors lived

NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology

The negative effect of emotion in climate action

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