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Here’s how valuable resources can be extracted from the seabed: “There's a goldmine out there”

If there is going to be seabed mining, how should it be done? And what kind of technology can we use?

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Here’s how valuable resources can be extracted from the seabed: “There's a goldmine out there”

After thousands of years apart, wild and domesticated cats are now having kittens

The seabed at a depth of 1,500 metres could be opened for possible mining. What's it like down there?

Our homes have become too hot for potted plants

Reindeer in Svalbard are inbred. Is this a problem?

What would the forest be like if we weren't around?

Why Norway has banned the breeding of Cavalier King Charles Spaniels

Researchers have managed to extract RNA from an extinct animal

A new bird has been found on Bear Island

Swine fever in Sweden is spreading. Norway offers bounty for reporting sick and dead wild boars

Do we really need to pick up dog poop?

Surprise discovery: Researchers caught moose eating faeces

The secret lives of slugs: Where do they hide and why do the come out after rain?

Why are pictures of space so colourful?

Can you smell that it's going to rain?

If your best friend moves to Mars, how difficult would it be to talk to each other?

There are many strange poops in the animal kingdom

New space telescope will shed light on dark sides of the universe

Here's what researchers encountered in Norway's deepest hole

New tool can quickly reveal special parts of a genome

Mark drove from the Netherlands to Norway for a new cancer treatment to save Misty the dog

Chance discovery provided fantastic images of ancient lizard fossils

Where does space begin?

Does smell disappear? Or does our planet become more and more smelly every day?

Scientists have once again found mysterious holes in the deep sea

How to safely grow food plants at home

Is it true that trees talk to each other?

Closing a road can reduce traffic. And there’s a mathematical explanation for why

Europe collaborates on solar telescope to the tune of 200 million euros

What happened to the landscape and people during the Stone Age flood disaster in Eastern Norway?

This is why humans are born completely helpless

Most of the glaciers in Norway could disappear before the year 2100

What are these holes at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean?

These bones could rewrite the history of life

The war in Ukraine has undermined environmental and climate research in the Arctic

Mina the sheep was born intersex

A boy looked at the globe — and found the explanation for earthquakes

Why aren't animals as smart as humans?

Zombie fungus controls ants like they’re puppets. Could it make the leap to humans like in ‘The Last of Us’?

A strong solar storm will probably increase northern lights in the near future

The world’s oldest tree has broken

Norwegian and Swedish researchers completely disagree about pike

Are there more earthquakes during a full moon?

Why was there no earthquake warning in Turkey?

Can fish drown?

Trying to make assisted fertilization work for pigs

This shark postpones having sex until it is over 100 years old

New Norwegian land could emerge from the Atlantic Ocean

The last Ice Age excavated bedrock equivalent to 500 times Mount Everest

World's oldest DNA: Scientists discover 2-million-year-old remains of plants and animals

The plan was to renovate a laundry room. But then bones from a 12 000 year old polar bear showed up

Norway could make Europe less dependent on critical minerals from China

What happens if we can’t buy critical metals from the Chinese?

Here are 12 of the most exciting prehistoric animal discoveries

Why can't mountains on Earth get much higher than the ones that are here now?

New spacecraft to solve mystery: Why is the Sun's atmosphere a hundred times hotter than its surface?

There’s a tiny little continent wedged between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates

Record-hot summer in Svalbard

Radioactivity still found in Norwegian nature - 36 years after the Chernobyl disaster

A volcanic catastrophe off the Norwegian coast likely explains dramatic global warming 55 million years ago

Necropsy report following Freya’s euthanasia: Was healthy and died instantly

Results from a Norwegian instrument on the Mars rover provide new hints about water

Should you help injured birds?

Freya's skeleton will be stored at the Natural History Museum in Oslo

The Arctic is heating up much faster than expected

Norwegian fjords gave researchers the idea of how a desert landscape in Namibia came to be

Seagulls have found safety in cities, but can this save them?

Norway's largest ‘fjord’ is only a few hundred thousand years old

Walrus Freya creates chaos in Oslo. Researcher responds: “I don’t like what I see”

Why do you see waves, colours and lights when you rub your eyes?

World's oldest tree still growing near the Norwegian-Swedish border

Here’s why Rattus norvegicus has taken over Europe

Researchers and the media need to stop crying ‘wolf’ about the Gulf Stream

The blade of this knife is from space

Norway's only dinosaur find was a complete accident

Here’s how to get rid of black spots on the apples in your garden

No, oil does not come from dinosaurs

The key to understanding the surface of Mars is stored in Oslo

What is a hypersonic weapon?