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Students were given the responsibility of teaching engineering students mathematics. The failure rate dropped significantly.
Wild reindeer are classified as Near Threatened in Norway. The population in the Setesdal–Ryfylke area is in poor condition ...
“For many people, the garden has become an extension of their house – with thuja hedges as walls and lawns as floors. That’s not good for biodiversity,” says Kyrre Kverndokk. He is a professor of ...
Those closely connected to someone with an illness have long been present in literature, but often in the background. Today, ...
The researchers found that coho salmon trigger a powerful inflammatory response within two days after the louse attaches.
Fridtjof Nansen was an explorer and scientist. Ten research institutions have followed in his footsteps in polar regions.
In his newly published archaeology master’s thesis delivered at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tor-Kjetil Krokmyrdal has shown that a trading place existed in the Viking Age at Sandtorg in ...
“We find that skins, which refer to how you appear in the game, have a crucial social function,” Clara Julia Reich says. “Children may experience being called poor if they haven't spent money on their ...
War gaming is an important tool for visualizing various behaviours, both anticipating the enemy’s moves and planning one's own. Although there is a completely different approach to data and knowledge ...
Getting things done “As a diplomat, Nansen took risks and went his own way. He was an impatient man, with scant respect for the bureaucratic procedures that had evolved over the years before he ...
Natural rubber is far from harmless The research team looked into the effect of chemicals that leach from microplastics and rubber particles into the marine environment. “What we found is that ...
For more than a decade the Norwegian Government has implemented policies of culling the reindeer herds in Northern Norway, as they claim the herds are too big to be sustainable. In 2012 the government ...