Harbardsbreen, a long glacier in western Norway, has melted significantly in just a few years. Satellite images now show that ...

Over the past ten years, common eiders have started breeding almost two weeks later than they used to,' says a researcher.

The Moon slows down the Earth's rotation a little every year. What would happen if it stopped completely? An astrophysicist ...

Traps can be just as effective as poison, perhaps even more so. Snap traps and electric traps kill rats quickly, reducing the ...

How did the universe actually begin? 'If the universe is infinite, it has been infinite since the very beginning,' a ...

Metal detectorists Rune Sætre and Vegard Sørlie had envisioned a quiet start to the season. Instead, in April this year they found the largest Viking Age coin hoard ever discovered in Norway, which ...

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 ...

During the last Ice Age, people living in what is now northern Ukraine carved small figurines from ivory taken from the tusks of enormous mammoths. Simon Radchenko is a researcher at the University of ...

Archaeologists have been carrying out excavations on the Svinesund plateau ahead of plans to develop a large industrial area. Their aim is to identify any archaeological remains before construction ...

On December 18, 1941, it was forbidden to use the Norwegian flag and its colours in a way that offended national sentiment. The ban was issued by Vidkun Quisling's fascist party, National Gathering.

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 ...

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 ...