You're completely normal if you only sleep around six hours a night. But it's also normal to sleep almost 70 per cent more.

Vitomir Maričić is one of the world's best freedivers. And this summer he set a new world record: He held his breath for 29 minutes and 3 seconds. "I wanted to give up many times," Maričić tells ...

The researchers used 3D seismic images from the northern North Sea. They came up with the new theory when they studied the ...

The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) recently presented startling figures on the increase in autism diagnoses from ...

A small figurine discovered in Eastern Norway offers the clearest picture yet of a Viking’s hair and his distinctive beard.

OPINION: Traditional integration metrics – employment rates, income levels, and housing stability – fail to capture the ...

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 ...

A coin and a brooch with textile fragments. These were the items the metal detector enthusiasts found when they searched the Skumsnes farm in Fitjar on the west coast of Norway last year. Now, ...

The researchers want to keep the exact location in Finnmark where the ancient fossils were found under wraps. “There’s a market out there for something like this,” says Anette Högström, a geologist at ...

When the world's oldest person, Spaniard Maria Branyas Morera, died at the age of 117 in August 2024, a Japanese woman took over the title. Tomiko Itooka celebrated her 116th birthday in May. She ...

In December 2023, archaeologists from the Museum of Cultural History uncovered an unknown burial site at a quarry near Fredrikstad in southeastern Norway. They recently announced the discovery, and ...

The burial field is unique in a European context, according to the Museum of Cultural History. It was found during an excavation in Fredrikstad municipality in 2023, and the analysis results of the ...