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WEBStudy: Risk of giving birth to small babies increases when the mother lives farther from green spaces. Opinion: Nuclear power is a friend of nature and the environment. These small bacteria eat huge amounts of methane.
The first alien planets were discovered in the 1990s. What have we …
WEB4 days ago · The planets in our solar system are far from alone in the Milky Way. There are 100 billion stars in our galaxy, and studies have shown that there are probably even more planets, according to NASA. So far, over 5,700 planets have been discovered, with thousands of potential candidates still awaiting confirmation.
These were the first plants to appear in northern Norway after the …
WEBOct 16, 2022 · Alpine azalea (Kalmia procumbens) is a hardy species that quickly colonizes areas where the ice is retreating today. But the researchers' first discovery of the species in northern Norway is 9200 years old, many thousands of years after the ice began to melt. (Photo: Inger G. Alsos)
The first vaccine against lung cancer has been administered
WEBSep 7, 2024 · Published sunday 08. September 2024 - 00:00. The first jabs were recently administered in London. There, researchers are testing a vaccine designed to hunt down and kill cancer cells. The participants are patients with different stages of lung cancer. The vaccine is based on the use of mRNA, which was used in the Covid-19 vaccine.
Only 5 per cent of the ocean has been explored - Sciencenorway.no
WEBJul 29, 2023 · For a whopping 70 per cent of the Earth is covered by ocean, and only 5 per cent has been explored by us humans. It is, therefore, a vast and blue mystery. “The life in the ocean is what I am most curious about,” researcher Gro van der Meeren says. She believes that there are species with characteristics we can't even imagine.
How healthy and climate friendly is Norwegian farmed salmon?
WEBMar 18, 2021 · When the researchers compared salmon with meat from pork, cattle and chicken, they found that salmon is higher in terms of many important nutrients. “When it comes to iron and zinc, animal meat is higher. But farmed salmon beats animal meat when it comes to Omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin B12, vitamin D, …
How was this ornamental stave church portal created nearly 1,000 …
WEB5 days ago · For over 150 years, art historians, archaeologists, and architects have been drawn to the Urnes Stave Church to study it. One of the greatest mysteries of the stave church is its intricately carved portal. We will soon find out, as the portal is unveiled after years of work to craft a replica for ...
Long Covid: Here's what we know so far - Sciencenorway.no
WEBJan 4, 2023 · In 2021, the OUS researchers published a study on long Covid. “We were early in investigating the after-effects of Covid, in autumn 2020, when long Covid was not so well known,” Søraas said to sciencenorway.no. “The participants in our study had tested themselves, so we knew they had had Covid", he says.
The Arctic is heating up much faster than expected
WEBAug 23, 2022 · In 2019, the UN wrote that the Arctic is warming faster due to a process known as Arctic amplification. It occurs when snow and ice, which reflect sunlight, melt and flow into the ocean, which absorbs the same light. In addition to a dramatic impact on local communities, nature and wildlife that depend on the sea ice to find food, rapid warming ...