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 ...

Bjørn Ludvigsen, a reader, has submitted a question to Science Norway: ‘It is assumed that the Big Bang started at a single point. I have never been able to make sense of that. As I understand it, all ...

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 ...

"Our muscles do not lose their ability to respond to exercise even as we get older," says Truls Raastad, a professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. A 70-year-old who starts strength ...

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 ...

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 ...

Haakon I – known by the epithet "the Good"—is a figure of uncertain historicity. What do we know about him—and was he actually King of Norway? The only thing we know for certain is that a king's son ...

Approximately 961–970: Harald II. (Eiriksson) Gråfell and his brothers (Eirikssønnene), viceroys in Norway for the Danish king Harald Bluetooth Approximately 970–995: Earl Håkon Sigurdsson, in Norway ...