Scrolling has become a kind of acceptable break. But it's actually quite a significant cognitive load to deal with everything that's happening on your phone,” says psychologist Tomas Myklebust.

Modern fossil-fuel cars that run on petrol or diesel typically cover between 200,000 and 300,000 kilometres before they are scrapped. Your electric car may go much farther. Naturally, standard ...

The dreams I never pursued. The talents I never got to use. The journeys I never took. The relationships with other people that I let fade away. The decisions I was too afraid to make. When death ...

It was in September last year that Espen Saastad contacted the archaeologists at the Norwegian Maritime Museum. Saastad is actually a watchmaker. But he is also a professional diver and conducts ...

Childhood trauma can have consequences for both our mental and physical health. Research has shown this for a long time. A new study now indicates that experiencing adversity both early and later in ...

Never before has a Viking Age coin hoard like this been discovered in Norway. And never before in Østerdalen, far from the areas considered most central during the Viking Age. So how did this enormous ...

13,000 years ago, the last Ice Age was nearing its end. The kilometre-thick ice sheet covering the northern part of the world was beginning to melt, and the climate was getting warmer and warmer. But ...

Many animals are venomous. Some of them can kill humans. But their venom may also contain substances that are useful to us. "We have only examined a small fraction of venomous animals," says Robin ...

The foreign researchers cannot reside in or be employed by European institutions. Russia is excluded from the scheme. It was in April that Minister of Research and Higher Education Sigrun Aasland ...

Inger Marie Møistad has been wandering through the forest in Geithus, southeast Norway, since September. She has systematically walked through one and a half kilometres of forest in search of pits in ...

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, ...

Job seekers from other European countries, the USA, and Russia also face discrimination, but to a much lesser extent. This conclusion comes from a new study published in the Norwegian Journal of ...