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The Researchers' Zone

Articles and blogs in this section of ScienceNordic are written by scientists and researchers who are Nordic or who live and work in the Nordic countries. They are invited to contribute to social debate or to share their findings and discoveries.

Is the Danish west coast disappearing?

Sibling studies: Nature's own randomised trials?

A range of different COVID-19 vaccines are already being tested in humans. But how will the vaccines actually work?

Coronavirus and training in gyms: Misunderstandings about Randomized Training Trial

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

Preferring to be social on social media rather than face-to-face is not deviant. It’s the new normal.

Researchers: Western ideas of Africa are hypocritical fantasies

The future map of the world is all about power and money – and it risks making the world more unequal

Water channels in the brain can determine how deeply you sleep

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The Nansen Legacy Project

Join 140 researchers in braving the ice, the cold, the dark and the polar bears of the arctic - as they search for knowledge about the rapidly changing climate and ecosystems in the Arctic.

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The EU-blog

What precisely is the EU’s contribution to global justice? Find cutting-edge research and competing perspectives to answer this question on the EU-blog.

The arrows show the location of the Svartisen subglacial laboratory. (Photo: Hallgeir Elvehøy / NVE)

The Sub Glacial Blog

Join scientists as they do research in the the world’s most claustrophobic lab, located in a tunnel two hundred metres below a Norwegian glacier.

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A Taste of the Sea

Scientists from Nofima give you fresh and well preserved knowledge about seafood in their seafood-blog. Bon appétite!

The Heritage Blog

Climate change and mass tourism threaten the world’s cultural heritage. So what to do about it? This and more, on the Heritage Blog.

The Right Now! Blog

Researchers from the Centre for Reseach on Extremism give you the latest on topics related to contemporary far right politics, subcultural trends, militancy, violence, and terrorism.

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Evolutionary mystery divides scientists: Did the nervous system evolve twice?

What is the point in having a nervous system?

Satellite data can help us studying Earth’s water cycle and understand droughts

H. C. Ørsted discovered aluminium, but he did not take his discovery seriously

Researcher: Universities have become assembly lines that make us dumber than we need to be

Chance separates the strongest from the weakest

Coronavirus: Schoolchildren and parents emerge unscathed from being guinea-pigs

The future of renewable energy targets in Europe in the era of the Green Deal

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

OPINION: White society has actively resisted critically reconsidering the significance of commemorative statues of colonialism. Rather than wait for the next statue-gate – let’s have a self-critical debate about what these statues actually represent.

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

OPINION: Norway’s coastal communities and ocean industries want stricter regulations and greater investment in becoming more sustainable. Governments around the world have acted swiftly to suppress the coronavirus – a similar coordinated effort would be an effective tool to combat the climate changes we are facing.

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

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

Should Norwegians tear down their Churchill-statue?

Who cares for the men who are left behind?

Face masks: Why do different countries in the world have such different recommendations?

The medicines of the future are hiding in Nature's treasure trove

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen are studying bioactive molecules in fungi to find the medicines of tomorrow.

Conspiracy theories in the age of corona: How they flourish, and why they are a problem

What’s funny about coronavirus?

Venus has no moon, yet this moon was discovered in the 1700s

Computers must learn to make mistakes

AI: This is how researchers make computers that can think

The pandemic demonstrates that facts are not just facts

Are we getting enough out of PhDs?

When epidemics change the world: Can we learn anything from the third plague pandemic?

Quinoa is a super crop that can resist future climate change

Why the words we use to describe the coronavirus matter

Why are men hit hardest by COVID-19?

Science is more than applied statistics – can we be freed from p-value tyranny, please!

What is the use of moral philosophy?

Suicide and ship hijacking: Join the Asian Company on a dramatic journey to India in the 1700s

Corona isolation puts our existential state to the test

Is the world going to run out of water?

Slime-loving bacteria from fresh faeces may be able to help anorexia patients

Our attention span is shorter than ever before. What are the consequences?

The H-index turns 15: but is it a good idea to put a number on researchers' performance?

Psychological Strategies Can Reduce Your Cravings

Fiction can help us understand ourselves during the coronavirus crisis

Crises like the COVID-19 pandemic reminds us that we create our own futures

Why mice are man's best friend in the fight against COVID-19

Researcher: Denmark's world-record level of trust is helping us in the fight against corona

Coronavirus puts world’s religions under pressure

Brain researchers want to know how you take care of your brain

Biodiversity at risk because we don’t assess the risk of pesticides properly

Why are the Danes not as funny as they think they are?

After four billion years, the code of life has begun to shrink

We must move beyond 'green capitalism'

Daily life of the Dodo – tales from a 12,000 year old swamp full of bones

Disinformation goes South

Wax on, wax off: What do plant roots and karate have in common?

How do we promote gender equity in computing?

Green transition: The whole world can learn from a small town in Iceland

New research challenges the origin of 'The Egtved girl'

Hospitals fear a new, deadly fungus – How big is the threat and what can we do?

Human blood can help rescue world’s climate

Mathematical models can predict animals’ risk of extinction

Does your ‘private’ data picture meet the beauty standards of society?

God's own weapons: Danish foreign fighters tell why they are fighting for jihad

Why we need a modern origin story today

Linguists need preservation of languages to study human language

Are all cancer cells the same?

2019 is the UN’s International Year of Indigenous Languages. And we need it to be

A single protein could be the key to treating hydrocephalus

We desperately need to store more carbon – seagrass could be the answer

Should we say farewell to the Arctic's unique nature?

Using personal data to understand aging

Where should we draw the line between a healthy and an unhealthy sports body?

Are joint custody and shared parenting a child’s right?

Why the new Arctic 'Cold War' is a dangerous myth

Everything you ever wanted to know about the history of haemorrhoids

Elite female athletes at greater risk of eating disorders

Explore 200 years of climate change in Denmark, Greenland, and the Faeroes

Erectile dysfunction? Physical activity could be the solution

Is China’s social credit system really the dystopian si-fi scenario that many fear?

Scientists reveal a new permafrost gas mystery

The hidden price of Iceland’s green energy