RESEARCH

The UiB Magazine 2016/2017

The magazine gives you a small taste of UiB´s academic activities: from researchers rewriting the evolutionary history to the mechanisms behind anger. Read all the articles from the UiB Magazine here.

KEYSTONE SPECIES: Flatworms represent a middle stage in evolutionary history between jelly fish and man.

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THE SARS CENTRE

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By Kim E. AndreassenUpdated: 10.08.2016 (First published: 23.06.2016)

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Researchers discover missing link in the evolution of complex cells

University of Bergen researcher Steffen Leth Jørgensen has discovered a new microbe in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Greenland and Norway, which represents a missing link in the evolution of complex life.

The return of the flatworm

Where does the acoel flatworm belong in the tree of life? Biologists have discussed this question for the last 20 years. Now Andreas Hejnol and his colleagues at the Sars Centre believe they have found the answer. The results are published in Nature.

Children born in winter have vulnerable lungs

Smoking mothers, respiratory infections and the date you were born contribute to determine how fast your lungs are aging.

Marine project gets millions in funding from the EU

Hans Tore Rapp will head the EU project SponGES. Mapping the North Atlantic sponge grounds could yield environmental as well as medicinal gains.

Professor Kenneth Hugdahl, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen (UiB).

The UiB Magazine interview: Kenneth Hugdahl

Statistically speaking, Professor of Psychology Kenneth Hugdahl should have been a drug addict. Instead, he became addicted to long jogs and research into auditory hallucinations.

Linking obesity and cancer

Nils Halberg heads a research group to find out how obesity is connected to cancer.

Skeletons reveal history

Using skeletons, biological anthropologist Stian Suppersberger Hamre studies the food and travels of Scandinavians who lived 1,000 years ago.

Collection of newspapers in a number of languages, used to illustrate an article about how the EU is lost in translations.

Is the EU lost in translations?

Do sour cherries escape toll duty? Or is that sweet cherries? Knowing what is or isn’t the correct letter of the law can be a nightmare in the EU. Especially when legislation is translated into all 24 official EU languages.

The PhD Interview: Pioneering research on steroids

The use of anabolic steroids has been linked to both violent aggression and suicide. In Dominic Sagoe's PhD the use of the dangerous drug has been mapped worldwide for the first time.

Media students become drone experts

The University of Bergen uses drone experiments to help educate tomorrow’s media workers.

Applying new thinking to the field of family economics

She was the girl who always finished her maths book in August, before the first month of the school year was even over. Today, Katrine Vellesen Løken is the youngest ever female professor of economics in Norway.

Why do we get so angry?

Some see red, some curse, some turn to violence and others pretend to be unperturbed. But why do we get so angry?