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Brown water causes ripples in freshwater ecosystems

Water is becoming browner many places in Norway. That might seem like a small thing, but this brown water is causing ripples that impact entire ecosystems.

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Chimpanzee beds are cleaner than human beds

All of the great apes make beds to sleep in. A new study shows that chimpanzee beds are impressively clean when it comes to fecal bacteria - so clean that humans would have to live in an IKEA warehouse to do better.

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Fossils recount a bustling ocean 100 million years ago

Surprisingly many fossils were found while researchers were considering CO2 storage on Svalbard. New discoveries tell us more about life there in the Jurassic period.

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  • copernicus-507px 'ESA Living Planet Fellowship' postdoc grant to Bas Altena July 17, 2018 12:40 PM

    A freshly graduated PhD in geomatics from the University of Oslo, Bas Altena, have been granted a postdoc grant from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Living Planet Fellowship program. With this fellowship he will explore new ways to exploit satellite data from the Copernicus program in combination with other satellites to help understand fast changes in the cryosphere.

  • anne-hope-jahren Anne Hope Jahren will give the Popular Lecture associated with the Kavli Prize July 6, 2018 1:59 PM

    2018 marks the tenth anniversary of the Kavli Prize, which recognizes scientists for major advances in three research areas: astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience—the big, the small, and the complex.

  • livsvitenskap_kollasj_660 Funding of new convergence environments 2018/2019 June 25, 2018 8:31 AM

    Today UiO:Life Science funds seven convergence environments – interdisciplinary research groups that address major challenges within the life sciences related to health and environment/sustainability. Now a new application round starts. The registration deadline for the digital meeting place and workshops is 22 August.

  • werner-507px New Professor in Geosciences/UiO; Stephanie Werner June 21, 2018 1:09 PM

    Stephanie Werner at CEED and Department of Geosciences is now employed in a permanent position as a Professor at the Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway.

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