Vanja Simonsen pulls out a drawer at the Natural History Museum in Oslo. It contains boxes upon boxes of small stones. At first glance, they resemble gravel and small pebbles. But the stones are ...

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Minister of Education Kari Nessa Nordtun has repeatedly highlighted that teachers must be given more authority in the classroom. Research, political documents and school staff agree with the minister ...

A tree stretches towards the sky, its branches intertwined, and figures hang from them. Were these men sacrificed or executed? Though the tapestry is poorly preserved, it tells a gripping story.

The planets in our solar system are far from alone in the Milky Way. There are 100 billion stars in our galaxy, and studies have shown that there are probably even more planets, according to NASA. So ...

For over 150 years, art historians, archaeologists, and architects have been drawn to the Urnes Stave Church to study it. One of the greatest mysteries of the stave church is its intricately carved ...

Around the world, researchers are searching for biomarkers of long Covid – physical traces of the illness left in the body. In a new study from Stavanger University Hospital, researchers have looked ...

‘It's so strange to have given birth to a child, and then you leave, and the child isn't there. It's like you never gave birth at all. Everyone else just forgets about it.’ This quote is from Ellen ...

The seabed in parts of the Barents Sea is riddled with cracks. Methane gas seeps out of some of these cracks, forming columns of gas rising from the seabed. While methane gas is a key component of the ...

30,000 years ago, the northern lights illuminated the skies over France. The sight made such an impact on our early ancestors that they painted it on the walls of their caves. 3,000 years ago, someone ...

“There are numerous disreputable providers selling rapid tests for sexually transmitted infections online. These are neither approved nor safe to use,” senior physician Anne Olaug Olsen at the ...

What’s happening with the ‘doomsday glacier’ in Antarctica? The Thwaites Glacier is a wild card when it comes to sea level rise, researchers say. A new study describes the glacier’s movements in the ...