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A Norwegian study shows that asthma is three times more common in those who had a father who smoked in adolescence than offspring who didn’t.
Researcher Nele Meckler wants to understand climate changes by studying fossil shells. She considers herself to be a climate detective.
Studies show that protein from fish can improve the health of overweight and obese people. A group of Norwegian researchers want to find out why this is so
The use of microbubbles nearly doubles the survival time of patients with pancreatic cancer, a new Norwegian clinical trial shows. This is the first time this technique is used to treat patients.
Researchers in Bergen have discovered mutations that may lead to new treatment against endometrial cancer within the uterus. The results are published in Nature Genetics.
Fast-breeding fish may be an important tool in the fight against malnourishment in the poorest parts of the world, a UN report concludes. Professor of Biology, Jeppe Kolding, is lead author of the study.
Climate change was less important for technological innovation among Stone Age humans than previously assumed.
New observations recently published in Nature Communications show that warm deep water also reaches the large Filchner ice shelf in the southern Weddell Sea.
An organized terror attack will have greater impact in a country like Norway than in a country like Israel. This has been shown in a new study at the University of Bergen.
A large national Norwegian study shows that workaholism frequently co-occurs with ADHD, OCD, anxiety, and depression.
In his new EU supported project, neuroscientist Kenneth Hugdahl will use and develop new technology to help patients who are hearing voices. This research could represent a paradigm shift in the treatment of patients with schizophrenia.
Young and single men are at risk of being addicted to video games. The addiction indicates an escape from ADHD and psychiatric disorder.
University of Bergen researchers have found a protein that could hold the key to understanding how Alzheimer’s disease develops.
Using skeletons, biological anthropologist Stian Suppersberger Hamre studies the food and travels of Scandinavians who lived 1,000 years ago.
When the conversation gets dull, Daniel Lokshtanov relaxes with tasks too complicated for computers to solve. That has made him one of Norway’s top algorithm researchers.
Nils Halberg at the University of Bergen has identified a protein that makes it possible for cancer cells to spread.
A new reconstruction of this ice sheet shows the interaction between climate and glaciers - how the ice sheet grows and retreats.
When Earth’s first organisms were formed, it may have been in an ice cold ocean. New research, published in Science Advances, indicates that both land and ocean were much colder than previously believed.

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