Archive for articles in the   ‘Object’category

28 aug, 2018

The Kuli Stone – Norway’s baptismal certificate

The Kuli Stone was originally located on the island of Kuloy, between Edøy and Smøla in the skerries outside Kristiansund [...]

04 mar, 2018

The quest for the missing moon rocks

On the first manned mission to the moon with Apollo 11 in 1969, Neil Armstrong and “Buzz” Aldrin gathered dust [...]

04 mar, 2018

Leif Tronstad and the heavy water

Chemistry professor and resistance fighter Leif Tronstad was an important contributor to one of the most famous sabotage missions of [...]

23 jan, 2018

One hundred years of producing energy — from water

The 1969 discovery of oil at the Ekofisk field in the North Sea transformed Norway into an internationally important energy [...]