Picture this: Almost 6,000 years ago, a girl walks along Lolland’s south coast and spits a piece of birch tar into the reeds. It didn’t taste great, but it helped to soothe her tooth ache. Fast ...

Tempting shops, endless work, entertaining video games, binge eating, daily sex, or excessive exercise. Do you know how it feels to be addicted to your own behaviour? Research shows that we can become ...

Half of the prostitutes in a new survey say they became prostitutes because of sexual curiosity, and 68 percent consider their line of work as part of their sexuality. “While there’s no doubt that ...

Circumcision, whereby the foreskin is removed from the penis, can cause the urethral opening to narrow, making it difficult to urinate. The condition is called meatal stenosis and the risk of ...

We scientists keep a close eye on the ice in Greenland and the Arctic, because even though there is a lot of ice, you probably already know that the ice is melting faster and faster. This is due to ...

The Vikings plundered, raided, and eventually reigned over a large part of what is modern day England. But exactly how many Danish Vikings migrated west and settled down in the British Isles? In 2015, ...

Archaeologists have learned a lot about the lives of Iron Age Europeans from the mummified remains preserved in bogs--including how they dressed. But not even the best-preserved bog can withstand the ...

In 1944, a conscientious citizen told the National Museum of Denmark that he had found something at an airfield in Værløse. At that time, German occupying forces were establishing a military ...

A recent ScienceNordic article explained what galaxies – the fundamental building blocks of our Universe – actually are, which types exist, and what they consist of. In this follow-up article, we will ...

A Danish bog has been harbouring a terrifying secret for thousands of years. Archaeologists have spent all summer excavating a small sample of what has turned out to be a mass grave containing ...

The great streams of silver that reached Scandinavia in the Viking Ages – first the Arabic silver from Russia, and later coins from Germany and Britain – were for the most part converted into silver ...

There’s no shortage of myths about the appearance of our notorious Viking ancestors. To find out more about these myths, ScienceNordic’s Danish partner site, videnskab.dk, asked its Facebook readers ...