Bronze Age artifacts excavated in Swedish town Alingsås
A large deposit of Bronze Age artifacts thought to originate between 750 and 500 BC have been excavated in the Swedish town of Alingsås by Archaeologi...
Evidence of ancient magma rocks found in southern Greenland
Scientists have found evidence in southern Greenland of ancient magma rocks roughly 3.7-billion-years-old, indicating that the Earth could have been e...
Did Alaska Really Deliver Presidential Votes By Dogsleds?
In the days and weeks after the November USA Presidential 2020 election – which now feels like a century ago – Alaska was lampooned for ta...
What the Arctic Reveals about Coronavirus
As permafrost grows in the Arctic, so does the threat to health of both people and animals. Permafrost decay can release long hidden bacteria and viru...
Ground-breaking science research in the Arctic
It took years to prepare, 600 scientists and researchers from 20 countries in all to execute – 100 on board at any given time – in additio...
#Takk Vigdís
The Icelandic nation has celebrated the 90th birthday of its former president Vigdís Finnbogadóttir in recent days with the hastag #TakkVigdís or Than...
Cheers to Icelandic National Beer Day
Beer Day is celebrated every year on March 1st in Iceland—a date that marked the end of a nationwide beer ban in 1989. You wouldn’t know it today, wit...
Glacier exhibition in Reykjavik – A milestone for the Icelandic Museum of Natural History
The Icelandic Museum of Natural History recently signed a contract with Perla Nordursins holding company about housing large-scale exhibitions about I...