Transatlantic Science Week 2009

6/24/2009 :: The U.S. Department of State hosted the U.S.-Norway consultative meeting on science and technology cooperation on May 29, 2009, a dialogue referred to by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in her letter to Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in February. NSF hosted a delegation visit to research sites in Alaska, opening new perspectives for science and technology cooperation in the north. + More

6/2/2009 :: The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters awarded the Abel Prize for 2009 to Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, on march 26. + More

5/19/2009 :: Scientists have announced today in New York the discovery of a 47 million year old human ancestor. For the past two years, an international team of scientists, led by world-renowned Norwegian fossil scientist Dr Jørn Hurum, University of Oslo Natural History Museum, has secretly conducted a detailed forensic analysis of the extraordinary fossil, studying the data to decode humankind’s ancient origins. At 95% complete, Ida is set to revolutionize our understanding of human evolution. + More

3/25/2009 :: New scientific research reveals that Predator X, fossils of which was excavated on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, Norway, was approximately 50ft long, weighed in at 45 tons and packed an amazing 33,000lb bite. Dubbed 'Predator X', the marine reptile is a new species of pliosaur, an apex predator that patrolled the Jurassic oceans 147 million years ago. + More