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Obesity Might Lead To Cancer: Now We Know Why (12.01.2022)
Obesity increases the risk of developing more than a dozen types of cancer. Researchers from the Department of Medicine (UiB) have no shown that lipids associated with obesity makes the cancer cell more aggressive.
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New Knowledge About the Happiness Hormone Dopamine - Can Help Parkinson's Patients (12.01.2022)
New findings provide a better understanding of how the synthesis of dopamine is regulated in the brain. It may shed new light on the mechanism behind diseases such as Parkinson's.
Innovative PhD programme becomes official UN Ocean Decade Action (30.12.2021)
On World Ocean Day in June 2021, a unique Norwegian-Pacific PhD Scholarship Programme was picked as one of the first 60 UN Ocean Decade Actions worldwide and one of three Norwegian actions.
Profile of Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere from the open ocean to the West and to the mountains in the East.
2021: a key year for biodiversity (28.12.2021)
2021 saw the 50th anniversary of UNESCO’s visionary Man and Biosphere programme, which brought attention to the importance of biodiversity long before the Sustainable Development Goals put it on policy makers’ agenda. We spoke with UNESCO Chair Inger Elisabeth Måren at the University of Bergen about the programme’s importance.
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Extraordinary shakings of a distant magnetar (22.12.2021)
The ASIM instrument aboard the International Space Station was the only instrument out of seven which detected the giant flare and recorded the main burst phase without being blinded by the giant flash of high energy which saturated the other six detectors at the time of the maximum emission.
Rektor Margareth Hagen foran juletre med julelys i rød jakke
Season's greetings to students and staff (21.12.2021)
The Rector wishes all students and staff a very Merry Christmas!
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Starting Grants awarded to outstanding researchers (03.12.2021)
Carina Strell, Mali Husby Rosnes and Suzette Flantua have been awarded the Trond Mohn Foundation’s Starting Grant for 2021.
Stacy Richards-Kennedy (on the right) from the University of the West Indies with Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu representing the University of Bergen at the official signing of the new Memorandum of Understanding between the two universities.
Strengthening the ocean-climate nexus (19.11.2021)
Saturday 13 November 2021, the University of Bergen and the University of the West Indies signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen the ties between the two long-term partners.
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Predicting weather events months before they happen (17.11.2021)
Clemens Spensberger's research aims to drastically improve prediction of weather incidents, by describing and establishing climate links between different geographical regions.
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Researchers must assume responsibility for halting the global bee decline (02.11.2021)
The number of wild bees has fallen dramatically since 1990. UiB professor Jeroen van der Sluijs urges researchers to assume their responsibility and help save the insects who hold the key to upholding human food production.
The third Ocean Sustainability Bergen Conference on 21 October 2021 was a hybrid event with some guests live from the University Aula and others participating virtually.
Science for the people of the ocean (25.10.2021)
The discussions at the third Ocean Sustainability Bergen Conference brought together scientists, students, industry, and policymakers taking in everything from the protecting the blue forest to seabed mining and how to create a sustainable balance between preservation and development of the ocean.
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Mother’s occupational exposure to cleaning products and disinfectants could cause asthma in future children (25.10.2021)
Mother’s exposure to cleaning agents and disinfectants in her job may have negative consequences for her future children, a study from the University of Bergen (UiB) shows.
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A Moonshot in the Freezing Arctic Depths (25.10.2021)
An interdisciplinary team from the University of Bergen, has taken a major step forward in deep sea exploration and sampling of Earth’s last truly remote and inaccessible seafloor environment – the extreme depths of the ice-covered Arctic Ocean. 
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St. Sunniva – Irish Queen and Norwegian Patron Saint (14.10.2021)
St. Sunniva has had an impact on Norwegian history, literature and art from the Middle Ages until today. A magnificent newly published book explores different aspects of the Sunniva character.
A bee between lilac flowers - two in focus and several others blurred in the background
Researchers have a responsibility to help stop the pollinator crisis (11.10.2021)
In a recent editorial, UiB professor Jeroen van der Sluijs and co-editors encourage entomologists to join other scientists, legislators and policymakers in addressing and countering pollinator decline.
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The 22nd of July-case led to legislative changes on insanity (29.09.2021)
The July 22 case raised an extensive discussion about criminal insanity and mental illness, which led to legislative changes from 2020. But there are still ambiguities that can only be resolved through research, according to law professor Linda Gröning at UiB.
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Vadim Kimmelman selected for the Young CAS Fellow programme (23.09.2021)
Linguist Vadim Kimmelman is one of two young, outstanding researchers in Norway who will participate in the Young CAS Fellow programme. He will do research on sign linguistics and whole‐entity classifiers.
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The formula for political endurance (30.08.2021)
With her ERC Consolidator Grant for the project "SUCCESS", Professor Ragnhild Muriaas will shed light on what makes women leave politics faster than men, and what makes them stay. With the project, she will launch a completely new way of understanding gender balance in politics.

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