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It is also cheaper to run, criminologist says.

The blood tests currently used do not provide a complete picture of gut health in people with coeliac disease. Researchers have identified proteins in the blood that may offer more accurate information for monitoring patients.

In the world’s most authoritarian region, football terraces have become an important arena for criticism of those in power, and for the struggle for freedom.

American English has become the norm. – This affects how young people speak English and what they think about the English language, says researcher Ulrikke Rindal.

A large number of hard-working new agents are entering working life and society in the coming years. They are happy to help us map the incidence of diseases, but they might also decide to hire a hitman.

When we ask who reads, we should not only ask who reads novels. If we broaden our definition of literature, we are talking about a rather large audience, says a literary scholar.

But when the music professor moved to Norway, he could no longer rely on his sense of pitch. The explanation may lie in sounds that most of us barely notice.

More and more people share traumas, fantasies, and everyday moments with social AI models – and experience the relationship as real.

For cancer patients undergoing head and neck radiation therapy, people living with Sjögren’s syndrome, diabetic individuals, or elderly people, a reduced amount of saliva and the consequent dry mouth are far more than uncomfortable. It can have major consequences for quality of life, making it difficult to eat, speak, and swallow, altering taste perception, and increasing the risk of dental cavities and oral infections.

She trains AI models to answer far more complex questions than before. “It’s completely new, and it could open many doors,” music professor says.

Healthy people who were exposed to high levels of stress and given access to opioids worked hard to obtain higher doses – even though the medication did not help them. The effect was most pronounced in men, according to a new Norwegian study.

When we rowed like Vikings during the Football World Cup, we used our history to create a sense of togetherness. Not unlike how the Vikings themselves used their own past.

Bacteria in the gut can influence how serious a liver disease becomes, according to new research. The findings strengthen the idea that signals from the gut can worsen disease in the liver, and they point to medicines that might help patients in the future.

The war in Ukraine is changing how translators view languages. This makes translating educational materials for Ukrainian students a difficult balancing act.

Cells from nine “super donors” are being collected in Oslo. The aim is for these to be used to repair or replace damaged cells, tissue and organs in people suffering from conditions ranging from heart attacks to Parkinson’s disease.

For women with chronic illnesses, pregnancy can pose a difficult dilemma: should they continue the medication they depend on and risk it crossing over to the fetus, or should they stop and risk becoming much sicker themselves?

Never before have so many pregnant women developed gestational diabetes. New research shows that our genes may help determine who is most at risk.

Growing adolescents who train heavily often do not understand how much food they need. The consequence can be injury.

A new study suggests that Alzheimer's disease may be detected by brain imaging more than seven years earlier than previously assumed. Researchers from the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo led the study, published in Nature Neuroscience.

Aud Egede-Nissen was Norway’s first female film producer, yet history has almost forgotten her. New research is finally giving her the starring role she deserves.

A sense of rhythm is invaluable to your brain—whether you can dance in time or not.

People who were exposed to violence, abuse, and neglect as children may greatly benefit from practicing yoga as adults. New research shows that yoga can provide a different kind of access to oneself than traditional talk therapy.

Bálint Laczkó has developed the software tool Pixasonics, which turns images into sound. It may be a small step on the way towards new treatments for diseases such as cancer and Parkinson’s.

A new evaluation of heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) in Norway shows that the treatment improves patients’ health along with their quality of life.

Treating pain while in the field can be very demanding. Researchers have finally identified an effective alternative for providing pain relief during the earliest phase of prehospital care, when establishing intravenous access can be difficult.