How did the universe actually begin? 'If the universe is infinite, it has been infinite since the very beginning,' a ...

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

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

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

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

Artificial intelligence has amazed people with its ability to create detailed images of what you ask for in seconds. The images can be colourful, decorative, and nice to look at. People like images ...

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 ...

Erlend Bore just wanted a hobby. So just before this summer, he bought a metal detector. To get him off his couch and go treasure hunting. He was searching around the shore of the island Rennesøy in ...

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 ...

13,000 years ago, the last Ice Age was nearing its end. The kilometre-thick ice sheet covering the northern part of the world was beginning to melt, and the climate was getting warmer and warmer. But ...

“It's very large, one of the largest burial mounds in Norway,” archaeologist Geir Grønnesby at the NTNU University Museum tells Science Norway. He is referring to Herlaugshaugen. It stands prominently ...

The boat grave from the Viking Age on Senja, an island in Northern Norway, was found just 20 centimetres beneath the surface. It could easily have been destroyed by ploughing. But two years ago, a ...