Wild reindeer are classified as Near Threatened in Norway. The population in the Setesdal–Ryfylke area is in poor condition ...

Those closely connected to someone with an illness have long been present in literature, but often in the background. Today, ...

The researchers found that coho salmon trigger a powerful inflammatory response within two days after the louse attaches.

Fridtjof Nansen was an explorer and scientist. Ten research institutions have followed in his footsteps in polar regions.

Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) is a species used to combat sea lice in the aquaculture industry. According to the Directorate of Fisheries, 35 million lumpfish were sold in 2020 for the purpose of ...

In his newly published archaeology master’s thesis delivered at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tor-Kjetil Krokmyrdal has shown that a trading place existed in the Viking Age at Sandtorg in ...

War gaming is an important tool for visualizing various behaviours, both anticipating the enemy’s moves and planning one's own. Although there is a completely different approach to data and knowledge ...

For more than a decade the Norwegian Government has implemented policies of culling the reindeer herds in Northern Norway, as they claim the herds are too big to be sustainable. In 2012 the government ...

Natural rubber is far from harmless The research team looked into the effect of chemicals that leach from microplastics and rubber particles into the marine environment. “What we found is that ...

An obvious example of "unintelligent design" in the human body is that women have a narrow birth canal, which makes childbirth both more dangerous and more painful than in other species. Maternal ...

Surveys at known archaeological sites “It will take time to process and analyse all the data, and it is therefore too early to come out with any final results,” says Gabler. Nevertheless, the ...

Lung cancer is one of the most widespread and deadly types of cancer in the world. In 2023, 3,319 Norwegians were diagnosed with lung cancer. When the immune system detects cancer inside the lungs, it ...