Nintendo has recently released a new Mario game, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, a multiplayer platformer involving a good dose of mushrooms, both in-game and presumably during development. But psychedelic trips aside, in the first few stages of the game we are introduced to a completely new (and arguably the best) “enemy” in Mario games: a snail with a fabulous pink shell. Figure 1. Snail (©Nintendo, ...

Archaeological research on the production and use of soapstone artifacts in northern Norway remains limited in scope and the region has received marginal attention in the Norwegian soapstone literature. Archaeological documentation of soapstone quarry locations has been minimal, although the Geological Survey of Norway has systematically surveyed a majority of the soapstone exposures in the ...

Chaga er ein materialitet som har skapt nye konsept, ritual og ein ny økonomi innanfor eit sjamanistisk felt i Noreg. Den samiske sjamanen, Ronald Kvernmo, sitt entreprenørskap viser korleis soppen chaga, gjennom ein kompleks dynamikk, har blitt gjenvunne, dyrka og oppskalert til eit symbol på samisk sjamanisme, berekraft og urfolkskunnskap. Gjennom å utforske korleis chaga bidreg til utviklinga av ...

The NCBI Sequence Read Archive currently hosts microRNA sequencing data for over 800 different species, evidencing the existence of a broad taxonomic distribution in the field of small RNA research. Simultaneously, the number of samples per miRNA-seq study continues to increase resulting in a vast amount of data that requires accurate, fast and user-friendly analysis methods. Since the previous ...

This report presents the updated sizes, trends and spatial distributions of the breeding populations of 17 seabird species breeding in Norway and Svalbard. The analyses are based on available census and monitoring data from SEAPOP; the Norwegian monitoring and mapping program for seabirds. In addition, the report presents results from a species-specific literature review of the most important ...

The northernmost parts of Europe has a large number of sites with Stone Age house-pits, the majority of which date from c. 5000 BC onwards. Remarkably, the remains of these dwellings are many places still visible on the surface. In northern Norway, such dwellings concentrate in the coastal areas, with a more limited number found on inland sites. In order to use these in analyses of settlement duration, ...

En begrenset forskningsutgravning ble utført på Nergården, Bjarkøy av UM og TFFK i tre feltperioder (2019-21) i tillegg til en georadarundersøkelse gjennomført av NIKU i 2021. Utgravningsresultatene er sammenflettet med NIKUs resultater i tolkning av konstruksjoner og sammenhengen mellom to nausttufter (tuft 1 og 2). Tuft 1 har utvendig mål på ca. 31-33 m x 15-17 m og et gulvareale på ca. 28-29 x ...

The dinoflagellate family Warnowiaceae has often been considered to include some of the most complex cells among the protists. The number of described species is around 40, but both the species and generic concepts are in need of revision. Warnowiaceans are often fragile and readily change morphology under the light microscope, and they are usually regarded to be rare. They are particularly famous ...

The synthetic aperture focusing technique (SAFT) is used to create focused images from ultrasound scans. SAFT has traditionally been applied only for imaging in a single medium, but the recently introduced phase shift migration (PSM) algorithm has expanded the use of SAFT to multilayer structures. In this article we present a similar focusing algorithm called multi-layer omega-k (MULOK), which ...