“For many people, the garden has become an extension of their house – with thuja hedges as walls and lawns as floors. That’s not good for biodiversity,” says Kyrre Kverndokk. He is a professor of ...

Wild reindeer are classified as Near Threatened in Norway. The population in the Setesdal–Ryfylke area is in poor condition ...

Those closely connected to someone with an illness have long been present in literature, but often in the background. Today, ...

The researchers found that coho salmon trigger a powerful inflammatory response within two days after the louse attaches.

Fridtjof Nansen was an explorer and scientist. Ten research institutions have followed in his footsteps in polar regions.

“We find that skins, which refer to how you appear in the game, have a crucial social function,” Clara Julia Reich says. “Children may experience being called poor if they haven't spent money on their ...

Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) is a species used to combat sea lice in the aquaculture industry. According to the Directorate of Fisheries, 35 million lumpfish were sold in 2020 for the purpose of ...

In his newly published archaeology master’s thesis delivered at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tor-Kjetil Krokmyrdal has shown that a trading place existed in the Viking Age at Sandtorg in ...

For more than a decade the Norwegian Government has implemented policies of culling the reindeer herds in Northern Norway, as they claim the herds are too big to be sustainable. In 2012 the government ...

War gaming is an important tool for visualizing various behaviours, both anticipating the enemy’s moves and planning one's own. Although there is a completely different approach to data and knowledge ...

Natural rubber is far from harmless The research team looked into the effect of chemicals that leach from microplastics and rubber particles into the marine environment. “What we found is that ...

An obvious example of "unintelligent design" in the human body is that women have a narrow birth canal, which makes childbirth both more dangerous and more painful than in other species. Maternal ...