The common earthworm is the largest species. Its scientific name is Lumbricus terrestris, although it is also known as the ...

Enormous potential,' say some experts. “The techniques are well known and have been used for many years, with fairly small ...

A Norwegian social anthropologist has gained unique insight into a part of Pakistani society we rarely hear about.

We have asked archaeologists to share their most exciting finds. Summer is peak season for archaeological excavations, and this is when many significant discoveries are made. Sometimes, years of ...

Andreas Zedrosser is a professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway. He supervised Kudrenko and realised they had something truly extraordinary. “We thought this was a unique opportunity to see ...

The Earth has gone through several ice ages and interglacial periods over the last 2.6 million years. This geological period is known as the Quaternary. We are now in an interglacial period. 20,000 ...

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 ...

Did Pacific Islanders and Native Americans ever have contact? This has long been a major question for anthropologists. When Thor Heyerdahl boarded the Kon-Tiki balsa raft in 1947, he hoped to finally ...

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 ...

When the experienced rock carving hunter Tormod Fjeld was driving his daughter Ada to a nearby location, the two of them decided to take a closer look beneath Kolsåstoppen, a hill in Bærum, Eastern ...

“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 ...

At the end of the 19th century, people emptied the water out of an old quarry in Trøndelag in mid-Norway. Some thought that it might contain a large silver deposit. But the only thing they found were ...