This has traditionally been regarded as the beginning of the Norwegian civil wars, a period that continued until 1240. But ...

The thickness of the Earth's crust varies greatly depending on whether it lies beneath oceans or continents. Average for the entire Earth: around 17–18 kilometres. Beneath the world's oceans (oceanic ...

Brave men conquered the poles. Strong, resilient men worked as fishermen, trappers, crew members, and heroes. This is how Norwegian polar history has traditionally been told – also at the Polar Museum ...

The ninth century seems to have experienced a warmer climate, which has been called the Medieval Warm Period. But from the 14th century things were different. It rained "without stopping" in 1315, and ...

Are we scoring lower on IQ tests because of the food we eat? Are schools and teachers the cause? Or maybe computers and mobile phones? Or is the trend due to something completely different? The ...

Did Pacific Islanders and Native Americans ever have contact? This has long been a major question for anthropologists. When Thor Heyerdahl boarded the Kon-Tiki balsa raft in 1947, he hoped to finally ...

The Norwegian VGTV series Harald og sytepavene (Harald and the Whiners) is about six people with long-term chronic pain who suddenly recover. After just a few weeks of treatment aimed at reprogramming ...

When the experienced rock carving hunter Tormod Fjeld was driving his daughter Ada to a nearby location, the two of them decided to take a closer look beneath Kolsåstoppen, a hill in Bærum, Eastern ...

“It's very large, one of the largest burial mounds in Norway,” archaeologist Geir Grønnesby at the NTNU University Museum tells Science Norway. He is referring to Herlaugshaugen. It stands prominently ...

The boat grave from the Viking Age on Senja, an island in Northern Norway, was found just 20 centimetres beneath the surface. It could easily have been destroyed by ploughing. But two years ago, a ...

ME/CFS is a disease that affects individuals to varying degrees and has no known cause. The main symptom is long-term fatigue. The terms ME and CFS are usually used synonymously or interchangeably.

Artificial intelligence has amazed people with its ability to create detailed images of what you ask for in seconds. The images can be colourful, decorative, and nice to look at. People like images ...