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The secret lives of slugs: Where do they hide and why do the come out after rain?

A wet summer is not necessarily the best for the much detested Spanish slugs.

Why are pictures of space so colourful?

Can you smell that it's going to rain?

If your best friend moves to Mars, how difficult would it be to talk to each other?

There are many strange poops in the animal kingdom

New space telescope will shed light on dark sides of the universe

Here's what researchers encountered in Norway's deepest hole

New tool can quickly reveal special parts of a genome

Mark drove from the Netherlands to Norway for a new cancer treatment to save Misty the dog

Chance discovery provided fantastic images of ancient lizard fossils

Where does space begin?

Does smell disappear? Or does our planet become more and more smelly every day?

Scientists have once again found mysterious holes in the deep sea

How to safely grow food plants at home

Is it true that trees talk to each other?

Closing a road can reduce traffic. And there’s a mathematical explanation for why

Europe collaborates on solar telescope to the tune of 200 million euros

What happened to the landscape and people during the Stone Age flood disaster in Eastern Norway?

This is why humans are born completely helpless

Most of the glaciers in Norway could disappear before the year 2100

What are these holes at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean?

These bones could rewrite the history of life

The war in Ukraine has undermined environmental and climate research in the Arctic

Mina the sheep was born intersex

A boy looked at the globe — and found the explanation for earthquakes

Why aren't animals as smart as humans?

Zombie fungus controls ants like they’re puppets. Could it make the leap to humans like in ‘The Last of Us’?

A strong solar storm will probably increase northern lights in the near future

The world’s oldest tree has broken

Norwegian and Swedish researchers completely disagree about pike

Are there more earthquakes during a full moon?

Why was there no earthquake warning in Turkey?

Can fish drown?

Trying to make assisted fertilization work for pigs

This shark postpones having sex until it is over 100 years old

New Norwegian land could emerge from the Atlantic Ocean

The last Ice Age excavated bedrock equivalent to 500 times Mount Everest

World's oldest DNA: Scientists discover 2-million-year-old remains of plants and animals

The plan was to renovate a laundry room. But then bones from a 12 000 year old polar bear showed up

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