"Physical activity is crucial for health, but if we're going to slow the rise in overweight and obesity, we need structural ...

Beaver lodges are built mainly for beavers and their families, but they often receive visits from other animals.

When Maren Johnson began working at Luther College 11 years ago, two-thirds of the Norwegian students were of Norwegian ...

It's completely out of the question that the Nobel Committee will allow itself to be pressured into giving the Peace Prize to ...

"As we grow older, life tends to become more monotonous. You may get the sense that time is speeding up because familiar ...

Treatment may help prevent child abuse. A new study suggests improved treatment for people with sexual interest in children.

The family of seven emigrated from Norway in 1854. They left from Rollag in Eastern Norway. Margit was 54 years old, Niels ...

Certain species of earthworms can curl up and go into a kind of hibernation through the winter. Earthworms feed on soil, ...

They hoped to maybe find some bone remains. Instead, they discovered a whole settlement with traces of a house and rare ...

Sleep is unavoidable. The Guinness World Records notes the longest anyone has stayed awake is 18 days – and it may not even be possible to go beyond that. At some point you simply can't continue.

"This is actually very interesting," says Gunnveig Grødeland. She is a professor of immunology at the University of Oslo and head of the Centre for Pandemics and One-Health Research (P1H). "We thought ...