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Objects and shapes are vital to language. Lion paintings from the Chauvet Cave in France.

How do objects shape our language?

Objects and shapes influence language and how we see the world. The European Research Council is supporting research on this topic with a NOK 123 million Synergy Grant.

Will wokeness derail the Democrats?

The presidential race appears to be a dead heat ahead of the United States election on 5 November, but wokeness is ‘an unexploded bomb’.

Found hundreds of species using DNA barcoding

There are millions of species on Earth that we still know nothing about. Researchers call these species ‘biological dark matter’, but new methods can provide us with a better overview more quickly.

Building peace

“Put very simply, conflicts end in one of three different ways,” says peace researcher Karin Dyrstad.

This is how to cut your car commute to work

Many people can manage very well by using their cars less. But for this to happen, housing developments must be planned to make it easier. Astrid Bjørgen has been studying how this can be achieved.

Cracking the planetary code

Imagine if everyone were to agree to do everything they can to help the planet. Right now. What sort of state would we and the planet be in in 2050? And what would we have to do?

Here you can watch a sea cucumber sensation!

After three years of waiting it has finally happened. Researchers have succeeded in getting a red sea cucumber, widely regarded as the world’s most expensive seafood, to spawn in the lab.

Kavli Prize winner Nancy Kanwisher

Finding the place for faces

She raised cormorants in her back yard in a kid’s swimming pool and studied the psychology of nuclear war on a MacArthur grant. But Kavli Award winner and cognitive neuroscientist Nancy Kanwisher always found herself coming back to studying the workings of the human mind.