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A toddler was bitten by a tick in central Oslo

Ticks can be found all over European gardens and parks. In Norway, there is a lack of data for urban areas.

School student discovered a new species in Norway

This sea spider can be found along Norwegian shores

How to save your plants from rain and drought

You can reuse potting soil for several years

Ancient plant fossils reveal seeds and pollen from the age of dinosaurs

How to grow vegetables on your balcony: "It's not too late to start now"

"Don't turn your garden into a green desert"

Intense activity on the sun: "It seems like we’re either at the peak or just past it"

A land bridge through a lost ocean allowed elephants and apes to migrate between Africa and Asia

What is actually good for children's brains?

Moose's own photos reveal what they're up to

A tsunami hit southwestern Norway 5,400 years ago

This could knock out the power grid

Plants can remember stress they experienced as seeds

What happens if the asteroid collides with the Moon?

Quantum mechanics is 100 years old. Without it, we wouldn't have this technology

Do we see the same colours?

Chefs recreated 200-year-old dishes: “Surprisingly good”

Is it better to be small or large when the climate changes?

Expert warns: "There's always a risk of being caught in an avalanche if you enter avalanche terrain"

New discovery about the brain's sense of place from Nobel Prize winners: "Absolutely shocked that this exists," says May-Britt Moser

What's real and fictional in Netflix's disaster series La Palma

Why don't we fall out of bed while we sleep?

Have orcas started using salmon as hats again?

10 things you didn't know about moose

How far might a cat stray from home?

A long-forgotten fossil from 1952 has now been identified as belonging to a prehistoric sea monster

This stone tablet with the Ten Commandments was sold for $5 million, but is it authentic?

Was Hvaldimir the whale really trained by the Russian military?

Goldfish can grow large and live very long lives – but not in small bowls

Top 10 of 2024: Helium, a medieval gauntlet, and the oldest animals on Earth

The northern lights will become even more spectacular in the coming years

Devastation ravages at the museum in Oslo: 100-year-old rock samples crumble to dust

This is Earth's highest mountain – and you have probably never heard of it

New study: The northern Barents Sea could be seven degrees warmer in 2050

Over 10 million fish consumed within a few hours off the Norwegian coast. “It was enough to send chills down your spine”

In recent years, orcas have attacked hundreds of boats. Why is that?

May Stine found a meteorite: "It looked like it was burnt"

Oldest animals on Earth found in northern Norway

Norwegian researchers with a new discovery: This thunderstorm bubbles and boils with radioactive radiation

Who pooped – 250 million years ago?

Methane leaks from cracks in the Barents Sea seabed

The first alien planets were discovered in the 1990s. What have we learned?

How do you assemble a dinosaur?

Applied for a job at NASA at the age of 12 – now she's set to become Norway's first astronaut

Is it possible that volcanoes existed on the Moon far later than previously believed?

When this popular vacation spot was reduced to extremely salty lakes

From headlines to criticism of study on deep-sea oxygen production

Some wolverines travel great distances during their lifetime

The deep sea: Researchers found mud volcanoes and collected hundreds of small creatures

The Natural History Museum of Norway acquires two new dinosaurs

This beetle lives only in Norway, on an endangered flower

Unique find: The oldest fossil of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere

Soy is used in pizza, stews, chocolate icing, and vegetarian food. What's so special about this super bean?

How can an ordinary lawn become a wildflower meadow?

Why do we have consciousness? Researchers are deeply divided

Researchers searched for mammoth remains in Lillehammer. Here’s how it went

Do dinosaur bones turn to stone?

They all hang out together, but family is most important for Norwegian orcas

On the hunt for mammoth remains in Norway

You live your life mostly in nitrogen – without even thinking about it

All sperm whales off the Norwegian coasts are males. Their lives are far more interesting than we imagined

What do pigs and birds have in common?

How do frogs survive the winter?

Why is there so much methane in the atmosphere right now?

This is what a bed bug expert does every time he stays at a hotel

Museums should never make collections like these again

Giant lasers will capture waves in space: The idea was considered crazy 30 years ago

The world's oldest known ice can be found here

Norwegian instrument on Mars confirms that this is an ancient lake

Norway strongly criticised in Nature editorial for approving seabed mining

Wood burning: Researcher's 10 tips for getting the most out of each log

Why do dogs eat poop?

What did dinosaurs actually sound like?

Do great white sharks exist off the coast of Norway?

What exactly is the Gulf Stream?

The history of anaesthesiology is full of bitter conflicts and deadly experiments

Massive snowfall and unusually freezing temperatures in Norway – why is this happening now?

What do mushrooms do during winter?

This is how whales nurse underwater

Volcanoes in Norway: Oslo was an inferno 300 million years ago

Norway will get its first real, complete dinosaur skeleton next year

Volcanic eruption triggered by earthquakes in Iceland

This Arctic fox will help save its species

Here’s how valuable resources can be extracted from the seabed: “There's a goldmine out there”

After thousands of years apart, wild and domesticated cats are now having kittens

The seabed at a depth of 1,500 metres could be opened for possible mining. What's it like down there?