Traps can be just as effective as poison, perhaps even more so. Snap traps and electric traps kill rats quickly, reducing the ...

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

During the last Ice Age, people living in what is now northern Ukraine carved small figurines from ivory taken from the tusks ...

In recent years, several studies have emerged concerning organisms that can break down plastic, but the research often has ...

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 ...

The study was published in The Lancet at the end of September and has received a lot of attention in Norwegian media, including the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK, the Aftenposten newspaper, ...

A new study shows no effect from treating people with healthy gut flora from donors. "This is a treatment that should not be offered for IBS," says researcher. Sciencenorway.no brings you science news ...

Why don't we drink pig's milk? We eat and drink products made from cow's milk, goat's milk, sheep's milk – even buffalo's milk. But not pig's milk. Why not? Sciencenorway.no brings you science news ...

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 ...

There is something special about growing your own food. Picking tomatoes from your own plants, pulling odd-shaped carrots out of the raised bed, and picking blackcurrants from the bushes behind the ...

"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 ...