This is how great the risk of infection from ticks is

Visual impairments after a stroke can be revealed using a new method

More than half of us may end up without descendants

A new study based on data from the 19th century gives insight into how few of us can expect to have grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Sex becomes easier and better with lube

Research on lubricants shows that the vast majority of people are more satisfied with intercourse when they use a lubricant.

Record numbers of Norwegian sea eagles are exported to Europe

How to measure a whale’s hearing

Can't drink hot coffee? Then you have cat tongue

What time of day is the best time to exercise?

A Viking queen was buried with a bucket of these wild apples. Now researchers worry that their special genetic makeup will disappear

Most people who have tasted crab apples think they are inedible, but researchers still think they are important.

We spend billions on heating that leaks out of buildings

Ten per cent of the population in Norway may have chronic kidney disease

What should astronauts eat on long trips?

Women with young children lose interest in politics

Norway's largest ‘fjord’ is only a few hundred thousand years old

The coming-out stories are still important: “We need queer life stories”

Positive vaccine news following Norway's first omicron outbreak

More men committed suicide last year in Norway

Science fiction tells us we are destroying the world we live in. Can it also help us save it?

Randi – aged 15 – was the youngest to be sentenced to death in Norway

Can animal bones become food for humans?

People are deceived by Internet fraud daily. Police are often unable to help

Children's school results are more related to parents' income than before

Both animals and humans yawn. Why do we yawn and why is it contagious?

No decriminalisation of drugs in Norway yet: Being caught with a joint can still have major consequences

Walrus Freya creates chaos in Oslo. Researcher responds: “I don’t like what I see”

Many immigrants in Norway are overqualified for their jobs

We accept tax evasions more during times of crisis - for low-income earners

Are you a little older but can pass this balancing test? Then you have a good chance of living longer

New Viking Age jewellery find delivered to archaeological museum on a platter

Sharp increase in eating disorders in young girls during the pandemic

Prisoner of war Roar Antonsen smuggled letters and shoes out of Grini prison camp during World War II

Climate expert: Norwegians do not understand how dangerous these heat waves are

Can regret make you change your behaviour?

Is regret a completely useless feeling, or can we actually learn from the things we regret we have – or have not – done?

For a long time, women have lived much longer than men in Norway. Now men are catching up

Where does all the dust come from?

After the mass shooting in Oslo: “I started to feel like I had to hide my rainbow bracelet”

This gold ring once belonged to a powerful Viking chief. It was found in a pile of cheap jewellery auctioned off online

This hat marked the beginning of Norwegian national costumes - the bunads

Norwegians consume 25 per cent more than the average EU citizen - at some of the highest prices

Goods and services are 46 per cent more expensive in Norway than in the EU.

Russian threats to the maritime delimitation line in the Barents Sea should be taken seriously says researcher

Biological sex: What kind of variations exist in nature?

This is how you can prevent food allergies in your children

Most Norwegians are overweight or obese

Is the Natural History Museum digitizing its collections to save space?

Why you should definitely go to a festival this summer

“Festival tickets should be available as free prescriptions,” says Norwegian professor.

One of the most famous acts of sabotage during WWII happened in the basement of this building. Now it's open to the public

EU-study: One in four Norwegians do not believe that climate change is caused by humans

While eight in ten Italians believe that climate change is caused by humans, only six in ten Norwegians believe the same, according to a new study.

Passion fruit may slow down Alzheimer's

Passion fruit can reduce memory loss and slow down disease development in Alzheimer animal models, a new Norwegian study finds.

Monks had to remain silent whilst they ate, so they invented a sign language

How do we know if people are poor enough to receive financial assistance?

Children who are exclusively breastfed lack iodine

Three-month-old babies who are exclusively breastfed have too little iodine, a new study shows.

Roald Amundsen’s final journal entries were about his lover and money

The polar explorer was waiting for his lover. He was just going to write a little more polar history by saving crashed Italian polar explorers first.

No more delays for the new Museum of the Viking Age

COVID-19 triggered the most severe economic crisis ever in the Nordic countries – but also the shortest

Why did somebody build a ceramics factory on this remote island 2000 years ago?

Why do you see waves, colours and lights when you rub your eyes?

University rector says Viking ships may collapse in 5 or 50 years if new museum is delayed

The future is still uncertain for Norway’s Viking ships after budget agreement.

Who painted pictures like this on rock walls in Norway 5000-8000 years ago?

E-scooters steal passengers from public transport

“Public transport companies need a completely new strategy,” one researcher says.

Negative attitudes towards the elderly have a profound effect on society

Age has become the most widespread basis for discrimination in working life.

Researchers have started a petition to save the Norwegian Viking ships

“This is a desperate cry to the government,” says one of the archaeologists behind the petition.

This optical illusion makes people feel like they're falling into a black hole

80 per cent of participants in a study experienced this phenomenon. Researchers believe that the illusion is a useful misinterpretation.

E-cigarettes can be harmful to your health

New report: Budget cuts put 1200 year old Viking ships at risk of being destroyed

World's oldest tree still growing near the Norwegian-Swedish border

The nearly 10 000-year-old spruce tree is only five metres tall, but it began to grow just after the last ice age ended.

Herring roe will be used in medicine to treat psoriasis

Medieval excavation greatest hits: 800 years ago a fashion queen strolled the streets of Oslo in this elegant shoe

Do relationships suffer from the seven-year itch?

Tired employees are more exposed to bullying

Robots ensure more and better vegetables to eat with fewer toxins to harm the environment

What happens in your brain when you become a teenager?

Cars pollute much less than before

Unique sword from the Viking Age found in Stavanger

Metal detector enthusiasts in Norway have found a unique type of Viking Age sword with spectacular ornamentation.

Here’s why Rattus norvegicus has taken over Europe

Researchers and the media need to stop crying ‘wolf’ about the Gulf Stream

Luck is important for new businesses

Entrepreneurs can have bad luck. Or they may be lucky. Researchers in Bergen are now seeing how decisive the effect of chance can be.

Here’s how to make old houses climate-friendly

The blade of this knife is from space

Can you imagine how that can be?

The planned new Viking Age Museum in Oslo told to cut a billion NOK

Why do so many people have chronic fatigue

In numerous diseases, such as celiac disease and psoriasis, chronic fatigue is actually the biggest problem. One professor believes the fatigue response is an ancient biological protection mechanism.

Too much espresso increases cholesterol - especially if you are a man

Why do people buy the equity funds that have the worst returns?

Norwegian Nobel prize winners shocked by cuts in government research spending

Why has the Norwegian Minister of Research fired the board of the Norwegian Research Council? Because he can.

Norway's only dinosaur find was a complete accident

“And it’s a world record,” Norwegian paleontologist says.

When will the next economic crisis hit?

An important lesson from economic crises is that they are so distinct from each other.

Here’s how to get rid of black spots on the apples in your garden

You can do a lot to get rid of apple scab on this summer’s apples, but you have to act now, in May.

No, oil does not come from dinosaurs

Minister forces resignation of the board of the Research Council of Norway. “This is about whether ten-year-olds with cancer diagnoses should live or die” says rector

“What do you really want from your universities?” asks Curt Rice.

Patients are being forced to take regular breaks from effective migraine medicine. But how do these expensive injections really work?

Forty years ago, researchers discovered a protein that dilated blood vessels in the brain. It led to a whole new type of migraine medicine.

Mysterious medieval moat found in the middle of Oslo: "Could suggest a desperate need for defense"

Norwegian health director to parents: “Do not use a screen as a babysitter”

Many dead people have alcohol in their blood even though they didn't drink before dying

But where does the alcohol come from?

Risk of autism seven times higher in Norwegian children with immigrant mothers

Alcohol doesn’t prevent heart disease

Critical colleagues may prevent researchers from stepping into the public eye

The nightman emptied the toilets of the city in the 17th century. It was dirty work, and his kids were considered dirty too

This is the best treatment for Achilles tendon ruptures

New Norwegian debt register saves more people from the debt trap

Electric fence against salmon lice