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Why are parents expected to work for free when their kids play sports?

In Norway, parents are expected to help out when their children take part in extracurricular activities. But many parents who have moved to Norway from other countries are not used to this.

Ageing well takes time

Nightmare on the tundra: Svalbard’s eight-legged residents

Why did some ancient cultures drink urine?

The iconic mushroom is so toxic that drinking reindeer urine was the safer option.

What happens when snakes strike

One quick strike, and a drop of venom turns into a cocktail of chaos inside the body.

You can save CO₂ by changing when you take a shower

Why the magic mushroom anti-ageing claims are overblown

Why are antidepressants so stigmatised?

Neuroscience finds musicians feel pain differently from the rest of us

Completely ordinary inflammations: "Could be an important piece in understanding Alzheimer's"

Why did Jesus use a magic wand?

One of Norway's largest glaciers has split apart due to extensive melting

This vulnerable bird has given us some of the world's most luxurious products. Few now remain

What would happen if the Earth stops rotating?

Is divorce hereditary?

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Moose hunting season is in full swing. Here's how hunters can make better decisions

Sally Rooney, Kneecap, and the fine line between activism and support for terrorism in Denmark

The Five Foolish Virgins tower over the narrowest point of this strait. What is this monument from the Roman era?

Researcher: This is the only way to get rid of rats

Did the universe begin at a single point, or has it always been infinite?

One in ten may be taking the wrong dose of this antidepressant

How many times a week should you have sex to get pregnant as quickly as possible?

Scented cleaning products change indoor air: 'Like standing along a busy road'

May have found the world's oldest anchor in Norway: "An incredibly exciting find"

Researchers may have solved the mystery behind the Ice Age’s enigmatic female figurines

Can bacteria and larvae break down plastic? The research is now facing scathing criticism

Sensational coin discovery: “We have found a national treasure”

Archaeologists have uncovered ancient stone circles at a Norwegian burial site

New study: IBS does not improve with donor faeces

Why don't we drink pig's milk?

You don’t want to bring these ants home from vacation

Erik has a preparedness garden: “Having a basement full of canned food is just a joke”

How quickly a 70-year-old can become as strong as a 50-year-old

Rare 4,000-year-old gallery grave unearthed in Norway

Record hoard from the Viking Age: Coin number 5,000 has now been dug up

The Myth of Brand Control: the case of Ozempic

Has Norway's new king been given the correct Romen numeral? Is he VIII or IIX? Or the 8th?

Is this Norway’s most unique headstone?

Some mushrooms are extremely poisonous. Why?

Did a King Haakon I actually exist?

The oldest ice is disappearing: The Stone Age is emerging from the melting ice

Norway criticised for taking food from whales and penguins in Antarctica

These strange, mysterious organisms lived in Finnmark 560 million years ago

What would King Haakon and King Harald have been called in the Viking Age? One historian offers a suggestion

The way we treat autoimmune diseases is rapidly changing

Immunotherapy for MS: No difference between the cheap and the expensive variant

We don't know where any of Norway’s early kings were buried

Excited mice herald a new method for more effective cancer vaccines

The struggle of parents who have children with school distress: "It becomes what our whole life is about"

Young employees and working from home: Can be just as good as being in the office, researcher says

Many managers want to cut remote work: Here's what researchers say

King Harald of Norway is dead: Why do we feel so sad when people we don’t know die?

Did life begin on micrometeorites? When researchers added fatty substances, something remarkable happened

Experts offer their best advice for dealing with bed bugs

What is this glowing ring around the sun?

Can a photon be split in two? The answer is pretty wild

You can now see the first 100 coins from the unique Viking hoard

Study: The brain cleans itself more slowly in people who are starting to become forgetful

The myth of Norway’s plastic leadership: Are we really global leaders in the fight against plastic pollution?

Researchers' three tips for helping kids thrive at school

If there was war in Norway for 110 years, how many people were killed in the battles?

Found 1,000-year-old graves in Norway: “15 skeletons is far more than we expected”

Linguist: “Maybe we'll be able to talk to whales within 20 years”

Historians disagree about how bloody the Norwegian civil wars were

Norwegian students' skills: "I'm concerned, but not surprised," says professor

The history of pick & mix is actually quite short – and it started in Scandinavia

Meat allergy is becoming more common. Ticks are being blamed

The stone circles were not made for sacrifices to the gods. They were traces of children at play

Here lies one of the thickest sections of Earth’s crust

Archaeologists have opened a Viking Age ship burial. The most exciting discovery may lie beneath the ship

How did these Norwegian berries end up in Hull, Newcastle, and London 100 years ago?

Why do we hear so little about demons in Christianity today?

This simple rusk reveals two stories about Norwegian polar history

Jesus cast out demons, but we rarely hear about it today

Seven magnificant medieval stone crosses emerged from a waste heap

Is the new PRT method for chronic pain really a miracle cure?

Pain took over Einar Tørnquist's life, but then he learned something new about his brain

Two condoms from 1944 washed ashore from a shipwreck in northern Norway

Many Pakistani men want gender equality, but it’s the mother-in-law who decides

First he was killed by a bullet, then he was blown to pieces. The SS chief’s pistol survived

How to use olive oil correctly

Researchers explored underwater mountains in the Arctic that no one had ever filmed before

A previously unknown medieval royal estate suddenly appeared

When the Russians invaded Chornobyl, the wildlife cameras were still running

"It's actually kind of crazy that a person could have chewed on this 6,000 years ago – and now I'm holding it"

How healthy is celery, really?

How did the USA go from being a pioneer in road safety to having one of the world’s highest road traffic death rates?

In a box in the basement lay four girls who died in the 1300s, still wearing red mittens on their hands

Why don't humans have a mating season? Or do we?

Introduced fish into mountain lakes 7,000 years ago: "It was a form of simple fish farming"

Knut Paasche was incredibly excited when he found something truly special from the Middle Ages

A strange bioluminescent starfish lives at depths of nearly 1,000 metres in Norway's longest fjord