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Does research support the claim that youth have become less active?

The Nansen Legacy Project Blog

Cold environments are hot spots for living organisms

The forgotten extermination of Norwegians in the Soviet Union

Researchers find evidence of anxiety and alcohol use in wastewater

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We expected to find very little life inside the ice, but we were proven wrong.

ARTICLES FROM UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS

The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS)

Humanities + medicine = ❤︎

NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Tinder is a waste of time for most people

University of Bergen

From skis to Sjogren's Syndrome

Reading to your child? Digital books are as important as print books

Anxiety is common among nursing home residents with dementia

Neuroscientists cultivate mini-versions of human brains in the lab. Could they become conscious?

Looking for gender differences in Norwegian prisons is a distraction

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University of Oslo, Faculty of Humanities

New millions for the Faculty of Humanities for research in music history

Østfold University College

New study discards widely held myth of people with Asperger Syndrome

NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research

The greenhouse gas nitrous oxide is on the rise

The world is a scarier place for Norway

Slightly more poor people in Norway

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Do the animals at the bottom of the ocean know it’s dark season?

A Taste of the Sea:

How to make your own luxury caviar

A Taste of the Sea:

Here's what happened when I served my friends chocolate with seaweed

Should it be legal to give at-home genetic tests to your children?

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In the Arctic Ocean and on the shoulders of giants

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Nasal spray research was not legal – producers have to remove all information about study

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Snorkeling rivers to count escaped farmed salmon

Family values in Europe: Georgia is on one extreme. Norway is on the other.

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Hard disks full of data despite ice, darkness and freezing temperatures

She’s given birth to six calves before — but now she finally gets to be a mother

ARTICLES FROM UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS

NLA University College

Should climate activists stop scaring their audiences?

NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Smoking may cause white scars on the brain

The Norwegian Meteorological Institute

New method for weather forecasting in the Arctic

NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Improved fitness can mean living longer without dementia

Meta-analysis: Healthy people don’t need to take aspirin to prevent heart disease

Both women and men are vulnerable in prison

Crushing the myth of “poor Norway”

Elderly people in nursing homes not so preoccupied by death

The Nansen Legacy Project Blog

Where are we? Planning a research cruise is not a trivial thing.

The Nansen Legacy Project Blog

Night watch

What’s the best way to recycle clothes?

Women sentenced to prison in Norway are treated favourably

ARTICLES FROM UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS

NUPI, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

The green transition: Who will be the geopolitical winners – and losers?

The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS)

Female orgasm: an evolutionary emancipation of women’s sexuality?

NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Turning waste heat into hydrogen fuel

Women who have given birth have younger brains

The strict EAT-diet is supposed to be good for the climate and good for our health. But how did researchers arrive at their recommendations?

Do lice prefer some people more than others?

Children who are not physically active have poor cardiac function

Big Brother is watching you - and makes you behave differently

These four types of cancer are more likely to be detected in highly educated people

As Norwegian Jews were being deported, the Quisling government discussed working hours during the Christmas holidays

Norwegians are the world’s home renovation champs

The Nansen Legacy Project Blog

What IS this mooring business?

The Heritage Blog

Heritage conservation and Climate Change

PhD candidate stumbled upon evidence disproving a 25-year-old belief about the brain

The mystery from pre-Viking days: Only the most powerful had these little pieces of gold

Suicide researcher is more optimistic than in a long time

How does the flu virus work, and why do we have to make new vaccines every year?

ARTICLES FROM UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS

NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Super-strong magnetic supercrystals can assemble themselves

Nofima The Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research

Norwegian oils from sea and land generate more omega-3

University of Agder

Religion plays a key role in Bolivia

Can deep brain stimulation help with epilepsy?

Should children be allowed to choose teams in gym class?

Is it okay to feed your dog leftovers?

Gender issues are ridiculed and sabotaged in the military

Being overweight before age 40 increases cancer risk

Cannabis users have a fivefold risk of taking psychosis meds

Academics hide, play dumb, don't care or over-perform. Everything to oppose the system and administration.

A critical look at the EU's approach to peacekeeping

Bullying negatively impacts both the bully and the victim of bullying

Norway builds top athletes through not focusing on winning

Wasting water in Norway has consequences for the environment

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Improving weather forecasts in the Arctic

New study flight-shames Bill Gates and Paris Hilton

Wolves won’t save the forest

ARTICLES FROM UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS

Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)

Under winter's spell: how trees slumber until spring

NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Buy less, be happier and build a healthy planet

University of Bergen

Antarctica behind rapid sea level change in the last interglacial

If your father was overweight during puberty, your risk of developing asthma doubles

Students receiving follow-up support in upper secondary school less likely to quit

Your cat meows mostly for you

Electric shock treatment increases volume in large parts of the brain

Vikings wiped out Iceland’s walruses

Nurses can smell infections

You can combat long-tailed silverfish efficiently and safely, it turns out

Trout may be dining on lots of lemmings

Men’s sex lives much worse after surgery for prostate cancer

People who have trouble falling asleep have the most anxiety

Government finally grants money for new Viking ship museum in Oslo

Why are we more concerned about someone seeing us fall on our face than whether it hurt?

Religious minority youth between patriarchy and gender equality

Teens with mental health issues use more drugs, new study shows

Return of Scandinavian wolves means fewer moose

Feeding the future’s farmed salmon

Does Norway need a new legal definition of rape?

We don't need special measures to keep older people working longer

Our image of ISIS women is incomplete

Crazed Viking warriors may have been high on henbane

ARTICLES FROM UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS

What is the secret to the Ingebrigtsen brothers’ success?

Discrimination: Thirty-five per cent of Muslim immigrants say they did not get a job they were qualified for

Here’s what we know about people who stayed home on Election Day

Breathing can affect the cleansing of the brain

New Norwegian population registry simplifies genealogical research

Eating disorders can come back later in life

Fish welfare should be a criterion for obtaining new aquaculture concessions

Researchers under pressure: “We can't conduct secret research.”

Law and justice: Swearing an oath in the Middle Ages was powerful evidence

Some people are more prone to blood poisoning than others. Gry Hege was affected, and lost her hands and feet.

A climate policy that oil companies could support

How drug dealers describe their own lives

Norwegian universities tackle their carbon footprints from travel

Older Norwegians have almost doubled income in 20 years

Norwegian researcher brings unique insights into healthcare and schools in the Islamic State

Creating languages of the past for HBO’s "Beforeigners"

No more online voting in Norway

Stomach cancer in deep decline

Is being overtired an actual physical condition?

What use are biting horseflies?

Speed cameras save lives but are politically contentious

How annoying is it for sheep to wear a bell all summer long?

This is what we talk about when we talk about being drunk

People are more generous to each other at festivals

Health trends over the last 45 years: We’re getting fatter — but healthier

What happens to flowers and birds when we massacre mosquitoes with modern traps?

How scientists discovered salmon that need less food to grow

What’s the lasting effect of surgical knee repair?

Researcher recommends teachers talk to students about sexual abuse

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How studies of Norwegian fjord ice can help create a safer future for the arctic

What happens to Norwegian children of immigrants as adults?

Norwegian researchers find link between ALS and body weight

Who chooses to work past age 67?

Half of Norwegian red foxes eat rat poison

Integration on hold in Norway: Immigrants face revocation of residence status

Asthma or EILO: Are misdiagnosed breathing difficulties making children and adolescents less active?

New medicine for multiple myeloma shows promising results

Few physical differences found between healthy individuals and those afflicted by chronic fatigue syndrome

Many diagnosed with asthma may actually have EILO

Today's elite football matches require more targeted training

Viking men were buried with cooking gear

Should Norwegians have to wait to 63 at the earliest to retire?

When a flood of immigrant workers becomes a trickle

The urban space is sexualised and misogynistic

Modern-day Vikings (and their neighbours) eat dinner at home

Alcohol’s role in the relationship between Sweden and Norway

Scientists have found 10 000-year-old Scandinavian genes in prehistoric gum

Cancer drug doesn’t work for chronic fatigue

The EU raises the standard of Norwegian gender equality policies

Why do Norway and Greece have radically different traffic mortality rates?

Why do schizophrenia patients die earlier than other people?

Men are stricter than women when it comes to sick leave

Therapy can help men stop domestic violence

Why boys get poor grades

People are less afraid of flying now than in the 1980s

Doping scandal covered very differently by Swedish and Norwegian media

Cyclists and long wait times at traffic lights discourage pedestrians

Water containing ozone disinfects hands as well as hand sanitizer

Tomatoes used to taste bad. Not anymore.

Drinking during pregnancy is probably not the cause of children’s behavioural problems

Bob Dylan’s poetry has its roots in the Bible

Striking settlement pattern differences among immigrants in Norway and Sweden

Exhaust gas is to blame: Ground-level ozone is damaging crops