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

American politicians use the Nordic region as both a role model and a scare tactic

Climate change is a bigger field of research in Norway than in any other country

The coronavirus spreads more in low temperatures

Surviving cancer in the Nordics:
Norwegians with lung cancer live longer than in neighbouring countries, but are more likely to die from melanoma

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

What happens when parents bring a foster child into the family?

Does smoking protect against the coronavirus? Nordic researchers aim to answer this question.

Fibromyalgia: More men diagnosed with new critiera

The far left: What happens when activist groups are labelled violent extremists?

90 per cent of Syrian refugees in Norway have had life-threatening experiences

What actually started the Little Ice Age?

New Norwegian biotechnology could pave the way for development of more efficient drugs

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

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

Women in academia publish more than people think

Mercury, bloodletting and animals were weapons in the fight against the shameful epidemic of the 18th century

When Norwegian petrol stations looked like Greek temples

Scientists are seeing ice age beginnings for very first time

This tiny sensor placed under the skin will measure the blood sugar levels of people with diabetes

Smokers and people who are overweight should be among the first to get the COVID-19 vaccine, researchers believe

Remains of what may be a temple where Norse gods were worshiped have been found in Norway

Is this a temple where Vikings made sacrifices to gods like Thor and Odin?

Why don't cyclists just stop at red lights?

Do you ride your bike through red lights? If so, you're not alone.

Shattering the myth that nice and quiet teenagers pose a danger sign

Norwegian COVID-19 patients: Physicians surprised by length of stay on ventilators

What happens when parents bring a foster child into the family?

Women are protected against cervical cancer 12 years after getting the HPV-vaccine, according to large Nordic study

Here’s how more precise radiation can reduce side effects for cancer patients

Fewer people in Norway are getting permanent jobs these days

More immigrants, “bike messenger jobs,” and what researchers call gig economics. Put together, these trends challenge traditional working life.

Why do jihadists cry?

The richest Norwegians pay the least taxes

Income inequality in Norway is much greater than official figures have shown.

Both pedestrians and drivers are angry with the cyclists

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 COVID-19 pandemic may have caused more violence against women in Norway

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

People who participated in digital sleep therapy used less sleep medication afterwards.

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?

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

Historic amount of flooding in Europe during the last 30 years

How the corona crisis contributes to new types of crime

Attacks on health personnel and breaches of infection control laws are dangerous consequences of the way we talk about the pandemic.

Employees at Norwegian kindergartens really enjoy their work

Geologists want people to help them hunt for meteor craters

Cardiologists sound the alarm about e-cigarettes

How dirty and stinky were medieval cities?

Stone age handprint found in Norway’s northernmost county

Women who use anabolic steroids encounter masculinizing side effects

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

These measures can slow lice infestations on farmed salmon

Your blood is a power meal for mosquitoes

Is it possible to lose weight while building muscle?

Is this the world’s simplest mill?

16 times entrepreneurs tried to start car production in Norway

"Pandemics affect women and men differently"

The history of and experiences from previous pandemics give us important information about how to handle today’s corona pandemic.

You can build strength without weights

The story of when Norway ran out of coronavirus tests, and a university started a factory to make them

This method identified the sickest coronavirus patients best

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

In Norway, about twelve per cent of people who died last year did so at home. Why don't more people get a planned ending of their lives, in their own bed?

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

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

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

One Chinese company has produced at least 400 fake scientific articles to order. A Norwegian researcher was central to the discovery.

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

What did the Vikings really eat?

This tiny bird carving is more than 13,000 years old

Drones to map the entire coast of Norway

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 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

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

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?

The police lack systematic plans to increase expertise

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.

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

Public broadcaster's controversial coronavirus article spread disinformation to millions

Can small towns be as bike friendly as large cities?

More Norwegians want to grow their own food

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

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

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

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

Why archaeologists call for an immediate Gjellestad Viking ship dig

How long does sex normally last before climaxing?

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