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 ...

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 ...

The foreign researchers cannot reside in or be employed by European institutions. Russia is excluded from the scheme. It was in April that Minister of Research and Higher Education Sigrun Aasland ...

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 ...

When the Oseberg Viking ship was discovered in a burial mound in 1904, it had been flattened by stone, earth, and the passage of time. The objects and the ship were broken into thousands of pieces.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) requires a lot of water to operate. The water is used to cool down the data centres where all the information is stored and transferred. When you ask AI a question, that ...