Will use new satellites to forecast space weather
The northern lights interfere with radio communications and GPS navigation. Satellites containing instruments from the University of Oslo, are going to be launched in order to find out why.
May explain massive star explosions
New insight into the behaviour of atomic nuclei may explain how gigantic star explosions, or supernovas, have formed the elements that are crucial to mankind.
Mankind's remotest relative
Mankind's remotest relative is a very rare micro-organism from south-Norway. The discovery may provide an insight into what life looked like on earth almost one thousand million years ago.