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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.
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.
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.
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.
Methane leaks from cracks in the Barents Sea seabed
WEB3 days ago · October 2024 - 04:30. The seabed in parts of the Barents Sea is riddled with cracks. Methane gas seeps out of some of these cracks, forming columns of gas rising from the seabed. While methane gas is a key component of the natural gas extracted from oil platforms, these emissions are natural, not industrial. The gas leaks from large reservoirs ...
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, …
Norway's largest ‘fjord’ is only a few hundred thousand years old
WEBAug 1, 2022 · The Norwegian trench is a giant underwater ‘fjord’ formed by an enormous glacier. Published monday 01. August 2022 - 04:30. In a new study, researchers have concluded that the 700-metre-deep Norwegian trench is quite young. You see, for geologists, 350,000 years is anything but old. In the study published in Marine and Petroleum Geology ...
Dramatic increase of skin cancer in Norway - Sciencenorway.no
WEBMay 28, 2023 · Possible backlog. In total, 38,265 new cancer cases were registered in Norway in 2022. This is a slight increase from the previous year when 36,998 new cases were registered. However, from 2020 to 2021, there was an increase of 1,483 cancer cases, which corresponds to a 4.2 per cent increase. This is a …
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.