Is cold water swimming in the winter healthy?

Do you stay up late because you need time for yourself?

Does being outside when it's really cold make you more exhausted — even if you don’t do anything tiring?

What would a Norwegian version of Bridgerton look like?

Polish people with PhDs work as cleaners and builders in Norway

Noise caused sea lice to eat and reproduce less

Vaccine resistance is nothing new.
What can we learn from sceptics of the past?

Dads spend an hour more each day on housework and childcare than they did in 1980

Does the story of Beowolf explain the Oseberg, Gjellestad and Sutton Hoo ships?

Does lying on your stomach after giving birth help your uterus contract?

A blood test can detect Alzheimer's five years before symptoms appear

Almost 40 glaciers on Svalbard have woken up

How the Syrian war affected Norway and Sweden

New model could explain old cholesterol mystery

Emotions shape how we perceive health information

How do search and rescue dogs train to find missing people?

All Norwegians above 18 may be vaccinated against Covid-19 by September

Our hearing's gotten better in the last 20 years, here's why

Financial worries gave Norwegians symptoms of PTSD when the pandemic hit the country

LGB-people in Norway are less happy with their lives than the general population

The nuclear family has become a political tug-of-war in Russia and Poland

COVID-19 vaccines pave the way for new types of medication

The "missing link" that triggered the ice ages

Is it really true that if you have a low resting heart rate, you’re really fit?

We eat candy to deal with the pandemic

New report shows workers in the fossil fuels industry have a deep distrust of environmentalists

Premature babies have a higher risk of dying from chronic disease as adults

The sea along Norway’s coast has gotten darker. That’s bad news for fish, seagrass and kelp

Promising results for colon cancer screening

Who believes in conspiracy theories?

Tuberculosis and cholera gave us sewage systems and posters against spitting. What will the coronavirus leave us with?

Skipping lunch break can be bad to your health

Browner, but better water in Norwegian lakes

Previous strokes connected to an increased risk of Covid related death

Norwegians get happier as they age, but the richest 25 per cent of the population is still the happiest

Study on Lightning Process-course for CFS/ME patients raises controversy

Controversial CRISPR-method used to make farmed salmon sterile

Pain after nerve damage can cause severe memory impairment

Norway’s wooden stave churches are are a demanding heritage to maintain

Why does therapy work for mental illness?

Nurses from EU-countries were poorly prepared to work in Norway

Pupils rarely transmitted COVID-19 to others, according to Norwegian study

Viking women played an important role in raids

Why do parents in one of the world's most gender equal countries still give children their dad's surname?

Half the inmates in Norwegian prisons suffer from substance abuse, but there's only room to treat 3-4 per cent of them

Pupils’ skills no better after more math and science classes

Child abuse went under the radar during the pandemic

Researchers may have discovered where dreams come from

Higher risk of bone fractures among vegans

Production of pet food for cats and dogs leaves a considerable carbon paw print

Professor receives royal award for work on cancer vaccine

Sex, Covid and archaeology. Here’s what you enjoyed reading the most in 2020.

Here's how Vikings celebrated Christmas

Why do young people long for a little house in the woods?

Kindergartens in the olden days

Your genes, not your blood type, are important in determining how you’ll respond to a COVID-19 infection

Can Artificial intelligence affect gender equality?

Netflix triumphs over the history books. Our brain remembers what we see on the screen better than what we read

Quiet people suffer without being seen

St. Lucia's Day: An Italian saint, a German child and a female demon all play a role in the story of 13 December

Study finds signs of ancient megafloods on Mars – pure speculation, says professor in Norway

Elderly patients in institutional care in Norway pleased with how society has tried to protect them against COVID-19

Economist: Vaccination most effective in areas with the fewest infections

Norway is thus in a far better situation than for instance the United States to get the maximum utility from each vaccine dose.

Why are Norwegian trade unions opposed to the EU's minimum wage proposal?

We have to clean up our approach to cleaning up beaches, researcher says

Much lower use of antidepressants in Norway compared to the rest of Europe

Having a foreign name decreased chances of being called for a job interview by 25 per cent

The border between Norway and Sweden is closed for the first time since 1954. Will the pandemic ruin their special friendship?

The Nordics were supposed to be the most integrated region in the world. But along came the coronavirus.

People have lost arrows and other objects at this spot in Jotunheimen — for more than 6000 years

Can the Covid-19 pandemic be a turning point for antibiotic resistance?

The use of antibiotics is plummeting in Norway during strict corona measures.

Is it possible to train the immune system to help in the fight against COVID-19?

Layers of soil and turf tell the tale of a grand Viking ship burial

Nine out of ten had eight different plasticizers in their urine, study finds

A mother’s postnatal depression can be passed on to the father

Depression before and after birth can be contagious. Particularly in relationships that experience a lot of uncertainties.

Norwegian Health officials are working around the clock to prepare for the COVID-19 vaccines

New Staphylococcus bacteria discovered in Norway

We can’t punish and help drug addicts at the same time, researchers say

Norwegian drug policy may be about to change radically.

Overly enthusiastic 70-year olds messed up study on physical activity

Excessive use of wood burning stoves while working from home leads to poor air quality

Nature or nurture? Here’s what researchers found when they studied children with depression

Huge increase in international students doing their PhD in Norway

40 per cent of the people who get doctorates in Norway are foreign citizens. Half of them leave when they are done.

Sex testing of female athletes - fair for whom?

Why does the avocado have such huge seeds? Meet the plants that have lost their enormous partners

Risk of running out of ventilators for COVID-19 patients in Norway significantly reduced

Record high levels of CO2 and methane in the atmosphere over Norway in 2019

Swedish men report less stress with longer paternity leave

Violence and abuse in childhood linked to more stress hormones in pregnancy

Fewer suicides during the first months of COVID-19 in Norway

Financial support packages and good mental health services may have made a difference, according to professor.

How do young Muslims deal with hate speech and verbal assaults?

More people are getting permanent jobs in Norway

Taxi drivers and health workers are among the most exposed to the coronavirus

What determines whether you have a good sex life as an older adult?

Mysterious remains of a huge, 'ship-shaped' house discovered near the Viking ship grave at Gjellestad

Archaeologists suggest that the almost 40-meter-long building may have been a house for ancient rituals, or a feasting hall.

Preliminary data suggest that cod liver oil users have lower risk of getting COVID-19

The spread of the coronavirus can almost be stopped in eight weeks, one research group says

Why are fewer men becoming fathers than before?

Fewer and fewer men are becoming fathers. What’s happening to Norwegian men?

Badger might have been behind "looted" viking graves in Norway

Brain researcher: It’s difficult to separate the physical and mental when it comes to our brains

Emotions, mental ailments, brain diseases: Everything happens in the brain.

Norwegians almost three times as likely to suffer from symptoms of depression after the lockdown in March

Why are the ashes of one of Norway's most important scientists in an unmarked grave?

What actually started the Little Ice Age?

Viking children practiced with swords and quickly grew up to become adults

Here's what we know about the life of a Viking child.