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How did the universe actually begin? 'If the universe is infinite, it has been infinite since the very beginning,' a ...

During the last Ice Age, people living in what is now northern Ukraine carved small figurines from ivory taken from the tusks ...

For women who had sex more than four times a week, the chance of becoming pregnant was 16 per cent higher during each cycle.

In recent years, several studies have emerged concerning organisms that can break down plastic, but the research often has ...

The burial ground was already extensive. Now it has grown even larger after new discoveries have been unearthed beneath a ...

Are we scoring lower on IQ tests because of the food we eat? Are schools and teachers the cause? Or maybe computers and mobile phones? Or is the trend due to something completely different? The ...

Metal detectorists Rune Sætre and Vegard Sørlie had envisioned a quiet start to the season. Instead, in April this year they found the largest Viking Age coin hoard ever discovered in Norway, which ...

Artificial intelligence has amazed people with its ability to create detailed images of what you ask for in seconds. The images can be colourful, decorative, and nice to look at. People like images ...

Approximately 961–970: Harald II. (Eiriksson) Gråfell and his brothers (Eirikssønnene), viceroys in Norway for the Danish king Harald Bluetooth Approximately 970–995: Earl Håkon Sigurdsson, in Norway ...

Did Pacific Islanders and Native Americans ever have contact? This has long been a major question for anthropologists. When Thor Heyerdahl boarded the Kon-Tiki balsa raft in 1947, he hoped to finally ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) requires a lot of water to operate. The water is used to cool down the data centres where all the information is stored and transferred. When you ask AI a question, that ...