Out of sheer habit, I glanced around here and there. Suddenly I came across a place with several unbelievably beautiful rock ...

There are more young men and boys who play video games. And there are more young women and girls who use social media ...

"Make sure to fill up with regular food and don't be hungry. Cravings for something sweet can sometimes just mean you’re ...

Thirty thousand people emigrate from Norway every year. The majority of them are immigrants who later return to their home country. Young Europeans leave the most often. One of the reasons that ...

“In short – we don't know,” says Sverre Stausland. He is a professor of linguistics at the University of Oslo. “The first words and languages haven’t left any traces,” says Jan Terje Faarlund, also a ...

Today, Teisen in Oslo is a typical residential area with low-rise apartment buildings and detached houses. But for many centuries, it was farmland. It may have been a Teisen farmer who buried a large ...

"Animals have very similar skin to us" Even though sun damage in humans is often talked about, we rarely hear about it in animals. But they can get sunburned, just like humans. "Animals have very ...

Sweden has the trading town of Birka. Denmark has the Jelling monuments and, since 2023, five ring fortresses built by the Viking king Harald Bluetooth. Norway’s Viking heritage, however, is still ...

"We're now giving our leading research communities the opportunity to connect with established researchers from abroad. It's important for Norway to be proactive in a challenging situation for ...

One day in 2019, the beluga whale Hvaldimir was discovered near Ingøy in northern Norway. It had a camera harness on and was very sociable, according to the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK. The ...

Today's approach to parenting makes children less resilient, psychologist Line Marie Warholm reports in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. She has written an entire book on the topic. Parents ...

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, ...