Over the past ten years, common eiders have started breeding almost two weeks later than they used to,' says a researcher.

The Moon slows down the Earth's rotation a little every year. What would happen if it stopped completely? An astrophysicist ...

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

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

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 weaknesses, according to a new article in the journal Nature. This is ...

Metal detectorists Rune Sætre and Vegard Sørlie had envisioned a quiet start to the season. Instead, in April this year they found the largest Viking Age coin hoard ever discovered in Norway, which ...

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 ...

During the last Ice Age, people living in what is now northern Ukraine carved small figurines from ivory taken from the tusks of enormous mammoths. Simon Radchenko is a researcher at the University of ...

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 ...

Haakon I – known by the epithet "the Good"—is a figure of uncertain historicity. What do we know about him—and was he actually King of Norway? The only thing we know for certain is that a king's son ...

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 ...