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Household cleaning can be as bad as smoking for lung function (16.02.2018)

Cleaners who have regularly used cleaning sprays over 20 years were found to have reduced lung function equivalent to smoking 20 cigarettes a day over the same period, a UiB-study shows.

Vulkanen Kilauea i 2016

How to live next to the world's most active volcano (07.02.2018)

How do people live in a place where the question is not if the disaster will happen, but when?

Mare Nullius: Professor Edvard Hviding awarded Toppforsk grant (05.02.2018)

Social anthropologist Edvard Hviding is one of three University of Bergen researchers to receive five years of major funding from the prestigious Toppforsk programme, awarded by the Research Council of Norway, for his project Mare Nullius.

Humanities scholars attract foreign researchers to Bergen (01.02.2018)

Thanks to EU funding, the Digital Culture, Archaeology, Philosophy and Theory of Science researchs groups will welcome new international researchers to their team. These groups at the Faculty of Humanities received five out of seven Marie Curie grants awarded to UiB.