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Three knights, used to illustrate a news article about the plans to establish a Medieval research cluster at the University of Bergen.
New dawn for Medieval studies in Bergen (24.11.2015)
In the new University of Bergen strategy, the aim is to strengthen Medieval studies in Bergen by establishing a cluster bringing together the best Medieval researchers in Western Norway.
Illustration picture, kids playing.
Saving children from HIV (18.11.2015)
12 months of liquid HIV drugs for babies during breastfeeding from HIV positive mothers protects them from infection, shows a new study published in The Lancet.
Birgit Kopainsky
Listening to the voices of Africa’s farmers (14.10.2015)
UiB researcher Brigit Kopainsky has visited African farmers to get their opinions on agriculture and climate change.
Biometric illustration.
Your walk and odour betray you (17.09.2015)
Soon you will be identified by body odour and your behaviour in public places. UiB researchers investigate the public's feelings about a higher degree of identification.
Professor Kenneth Hugdahl, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen (UiB).
The UiB Magazine interview: Kenneth Hugdahl (26.08.2015)
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.
Scan of a human brain, to accompany an article about a new theory of cognitive functions.
A universal theory of the brain (25.08.2015)
The UiB brain researchers Kenneth Hugdahl and Karsten Specht recently published an article documenting proof for a generalized active network for cognitive functions of the brain.
Bathroom scale
Genetically “lazy” fat cells may explain overweight and obesity (21.08.2015)
A special gene variant may be part of the explanation for increased fat storage in half of the population. This finding may give patients new and better targeted treatments in the future.
Wasp. Illustration
The secret to the success of insects (06.08.2015)
Insects are the most successful group of organisms in the history of life. A discovery of new genes suggests why.
On board a North Sea fishing vessel, with a fisherman on deck, hauling in the catch of the day.
Legal puzzle in the North Sea (03.06.2015)
What is the best way to manage an ecosystem? This is one of the many questions Sigrid Eskeland Schütz deals with in her work as a professor of law.
Kjersti Fløttum from University of Bergen and Endre Tvinnereim from Uni Research Rokkan are co-authors of an article published in Nature Climate Change on 1 June 2015.
What you think about when you hear the words climate change (02.06.2015)
Using a new method, researchers in Bergen discovered that so-called climate sceptics are more ambivalent about climate issues than previously assumed. Their results have now been published in Nature Climate Change.
Volcanoes under the sea
Researchers discover missing link in the evolution of complex cells (07.05.2015)
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.
fMRI scan of a brain, used as part of an article about treatment for patients who have suffered a stroke.
Future help for stroke patients with language problems (04.05.2015)
Brain researcher Karsten Specht has found a new method of analysis to distinguish between stroke patients with language problem. The result may be individualised treatment for each patient.
Ornaments from the Early Neolithic Period, belonging to Le Tai, Toulouse University and Essenbach-Ammerbreite, Archäologische Staatssammlung München.
North Europeans resisted farming (16.04.2015)
North Europeans resisted adaption of farming and herding when these practices arrived in Europe about 8,000 years ago, according to a new study conducted by a team including Archaeology Professor Francesco d’Errico at the University of Bergen.
The logo of the Centre on Law & Social Transformation in Bergen, which opened on 22 August 2014. The centre is a collaboration between Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen.
A call to laws (25.08.2014)
The new Centre on Law & Social Transformation officially opened on 22 August and is to be a dynamo for interdisciplinary research on law as an instrument of social change.
Blood sample to test a patient for diabetes, used as part of an article in the UiB Magazine on diabetes research.
Research in front: Solving diabetes (08.08.2014)
What roles do diets and genetics play in the development of obesity and diabetes?
Satelitte dishes in Svalbard, used as part of the research of the Birkeland Centre for Space Science, pictures are from an article in the UiB Magazine.
Research in front: Basic research in space (08.08.2014)
How is earth connected to space? That is one of the questions the researchers at the Birkeland Centre for Space Science are trying to answer.
Illustration by artist Oda Valle for an article on the Sea Lice Research Centre at the University of Bergen for the UiB Magazine 2014.
Tailor-made medicine to fight salmon louse (06.08.2014)
The salmon louse has become ever more resistant to drugs. The Sea Lice Research Centre in Bergen works to find new solutions to fight the louse.
The University Museum of Bergen pictured from the front in bright sunshine in wintertime, with scattered spots of snow in front of the museum.
UiB in world elite in eight subjects (26.02.2014)
In the 2014 QS subject rankings, the University of Bergen scores most highly in the disciplines of modern language, communication & media studies, and in earth & marine sciences.

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