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Norway could make Europe less dependent on critical minerals from China

Norway has large deposits of some rare earth metals that are important for the green shift. The Fen Complex fields in Telemark probably constitute a world-class deposit.

Norway could make Europe less dependent on critical minerals from China

What happens if we can’t buy critical metals from the Chinese?

Here are 12 of the most exciting prehistoric animal discoveries

Why can't mountains on Earth get much higher than the ones that are here now?

New spacecraft to solve mystery: Why is the Sun's atmosphere a hundred times hotter than its surface?

There’s a tiny little continent wedged between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates

Record-hot summer in Svalbard

Radioactivity still found in Norwegian nature - 36 years after the Chernobyl disaster

A volcanic catastrophe off the Norwegian coast likely explains dramatic global warming 55 million years ago

Necropsy report following Freya’s euthanasia: Was healthy and died instantly

Results from a Norwegian instrument on the Mars rover provide new hints about water

Should you help injured birds?

Freya's skeleton will be stored at the Natural History Museum in Oslo

The Arctic is heating up much faster than expected

Norwegian fjords gave researchers the idea of how a desert landscape in Namibia came to be

Seagulls have found safety in cities, but can this save them?

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

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

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

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

Here’s why Rattus norvegicus has taken over Europe

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

The blade of this knife is from space

Norway's only dinosaur find was a complete accident

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

No, oil does not come from dinosaurs

The key to understanding the surface of Mars is stored in Oslo

What is a hypersonic weapon?

We can close our eyes and mouth. Why can’t we close our ears?

How often do asteroids and comets hit the Earth?

Wind erosion has created a sculpture park in Antarctica

Is it really possible to find water with dowsing rods?

Mammoths and other large animals survived in the north much longer than previously believed

Calves not allowed to stay with their mother are more stressed and grow less well

Researchers tracked a bluefin tuna’s 15 000 kilometre swim across the Atlantic and back

Ancient skeletons are a bit like puzzles

This is how the ice age turned quick clay into a Norwegian problem

Company plans to fully charge electric cars in 17.5 minutes

If horses hadn’t made it out of North America, they probably wouldn’t exist today

Why doesn’t all our air disappear into space?

The famous Jutulhogget canyon was created by a megaflood

Serving up edible kelp to Michelin restaurants and supermarkets

Now researchers know what’s underneath Jostedalsbreen, the largest glacier in continental Europe

Wolf packs don’t actually have alpha males and alpha females, the idea is based on a misunderstanding

Five myths about the Big Bang

Why do animals hibernate?

Almost 40 glaciers on Svalbard have woken up

The "missing link" that triggered the ice ages

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

Researchers may have discovered where dreams come from

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

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

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

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

Scientists are seeing ice age beginnings for very first time

The rodents are back: Surprising amounts of mice in Eastern Norway

Svalbard provides clues about Earth’s largest mass extinction

Researchers get a hint about how the brain matures

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

Historic amount of flooding in Europe during the last 30 years

Geologists want people to help them hunt for meteor craters

These measures can slow lice infestations on farmed salmon

Your blood is a power meal for mosquitoes

Here’s how you can make your own compost

What is soil, anyway?

Small additives can make old antibiotics work again

The hunt for a shell with a left-hand twist

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

World food production depends on phosphorus. Are we about to run out?

Moose lower body temperature and heart rate in winter

Oceans are at their deepest in 250 million years

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

Data on how Norwegians move around allow for a finetuned model of calculating the spread of coronavirus

A new solar cycle may be underway

Emil Korsmo’s goal was to beat back weeds. But the wall charts he made of the bothersome plants were beautiful and popular

What happens to a species when it becomes more important to reproduce than to survive?

Discovered new species on Svalbard: Britney was an arctic plesiosaur with a tiny head and enormous eyes

Norway's first onshore sea urchin farm up and running

From the laboratory to the gallery: Microscopic images of our cells as art

Do birds like modern architecture?