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 ...

For women who had sex more than four times a week, the chance of becoming pregnant was 16 per cent higher during each cycle.

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists are currently excavating a large area at one of Norway’s most spectacular burial sites: the Hunn burial ground in eastern Norway. On what is known as the South Field, there are many ...

"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 ...

Pharaoh ants are very small and light in colour. You can see them, but they quickly disappear into a crack in the wall or under a shirt collar in your closet. They can establish a colony anywhere ...

Eating the wrong mushroom can lead to liver damage, kidney failure, and death within a relatively short time if you do not receive prompt treatment. But why have a few mushrooms evolved to produce ...