“The fact that parenting today is more egalitarian, and that fathers are more involved in their children's lives than before, ...

If you haven't seen the northern lights yet, there's no reason to despair. The best displays of the northern lights are ...

Most people associate the Viking Age with raids, plundering, and the famous Norwegian Viking ships. But for farmers to become ...

A unique whistle has been discovered during excavations of Aztec sites. The decoration resembles a skull. When you blow on ...

Crystals disintegrate. Labels turn to coal. Sulphuric acid seeps from solid rock. A plague is spreading through the ...

Sciencenorway.no brings you science news from Norway. This is the English version of forskning.no, Norway’s independent, ...

A coin and a brooch with textile fragments. These were the items the metal detector enthusiasts found when they searched the Skumsnes farm in Fitjar on the west coast of Norway last year. Now, ...

Every fourth inhabitant of Norway was a slave, or thrall, in the Viking Age, according to Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, a professor at the University of Oslo. These were women and men who had been captured by ...

What researchers refer to as literature reviews or meta-studies have been considered some of the most robust and reliable forms of research. These are large studies that summarise the conclusions of ...

The more parents earn, the better their children's mental health. Compared to the wealthiest families, three times as many sons of low-income parents have a mental health problem. How is children's ...

Norway now has three times as much forest as it did before World War Two. The volume of growth this year will be the equivalent of nearly 100 sacks of firewood per Norwegian. Burning wood or biofuels ...