Researchers believe that the first proper words most likely originated from imitation. “People would try to imitate the sound ...

"Crows, ravens, magpies, and eagles follow the scent, and so do foxes, badgers, and other creatures," he says. Small animals ...

Most Norwegians continued as before. They called themselves Lutherans, signalling both faith and heritage – a link to the ...

"Perhaps a billion silver dirhams flowed into Scandinavia and the Viking world between 800 and 950," says Gullbekk. That ...

The continuing rise in emissions is dampening the mood at the climate summit underway in Belém, Brazil. "Climate change is no longer a threat of the future. It is a tragedy of the present," said ...

The whole story starts with a farmer. Specifically, the farmer at Jortveit farm in southern Norway. Around the beginning of the 1930s he decided to drain a wetland near the farm so he could cultivate ...

Are we scoring lower on IQ tests because of the food we eat? Are schools and teachers the cause? Or maybe computers and mobile phones? Or is the trend due to something completely different? The ...

It's July 13, 2004. The crew on board the Norwegian research ship G.O. Sars has sent an unmanned remotely operated underwater vehicle – an ROV – with a camera down to the seabed in the middle of the ...

We have asked archaeologists to share their most exciting finds. Summer is peak season for archaeological excavations, and this is when many significant discoveries are made. Sometimes, years of ...

The burial field is unique in a European context, according to the Museum of Cultural History. It was found during an excavation in Fredrikstad municipality in 2023, and the analysis results of the ...

Have you ever thought about why you have the name you do? You may be named after someone, or perhaps your parents thought the name sounded nice? Researchers believe that first names have existed for ...

Not many years ago, Norwegian schoolchildren learned that spruce trees came to Norway from the east between 2 000 and 3 000 years ago. But ten years ago, researchers at Umeå University in Sweden ...