Published 18 March 2025 Photo: Mika Baumeister Lund University is taking an active step to meet society’s growing needs for security and crisis management. A new centre is being established at Campus Helsingborg with the aim of strengthening education, research and external engagement in total defence and preparedness on a broad front. “Security threats and risks in today’s society are increasingl

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-invest-sek-37-million-new-total-defence-centre - 2025-05-08

Published 19 March 2025 Photo: SYDA PRODUCTIONS According to a new study from Lund University in Sweden, approximately one in five Swedes are already choosing not to buy American brands. The majority would consider boycotting American products such as Coca-Cola in favour of European or Swedish alternatives. A study conducted by brand researchers at Lund University in Sweden, in cooperation with No

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/majority-swedes-are-open-boycotting-american-products - 2025-05-08

By sanna [dot] trygg [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Sanna Trygg) - published 24 March 2025 Photo: Charlotte Carlberg Bärg A unique archive in Lund, Sweden, holds 500 in-depth interviews with survivors of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. The interviews were conducted immediately after the survivors arrived in Sweden in spring 1945. The archive has now been nominated to the UN agency UNESC

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ravensbruck-archive-has-been-nominated-unesco-memory-world - 2025-05-08

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 31 March 2025 Professor Oskar Hansson, professor in neurology at Lund University. Photo: Tove Smeds Researchers at Lund University and Washington University have identified a blood marker that reflects the amount of Alzheimer’s pathology in the brain. This discovery may play a key role in determining who is most likely to bene

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-reliable-blood-marker-reveals-extent-alzheimers-pathology-brain - 2025-05-08

Published 1 April 2025 Photo: Istockphoto/Maren Winter Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is what researchers at Lund University in Sweden found when they collected dead hedgehogs to investigate the environmental pollutants found in urban environments. Previous research has investigated the presence of heavy me

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/surprising-number-environmental-pollutants-hedgehogs - 2025-05-08

Published 3 April 2025 They eye of a roach with a large pupil (Photo: Kaj Hulthén) Roach that migrate between different lakes and water courses have larger pupils and better eyesight than roach that stay in one place. The adaptation makes it easier for the red-eyed freshwater migrants to find food in murky waters. This is shown in a large study from Lund University in Sweden. Animals’ eyes, just l

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/migrating-roach-have-sharper-eyesight - 2025-05-08

Published 3 April 2025 “High-income countries, such as the United States, have sharply reduced their use but the gas still accounts for more than 60% of their climate emissions from anaesthetic gases", says Talbot. Photo: iStock Gases used in anaesthesia are potent greenhouse gases, and their total global impact has not previously been known. A study published in The Lancet Planetary Health led by

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/reduced-climate-impact-anaesthetic-gases-worrying-trend-middle-income-countries - 2025-05-08

Published 7 April 2025 A Bornean pit viper (Tropidolaemus subannulatus) thrives in the undergrowth of a tropical forest near Kubah National Park, Malaysia. (Photo: Jonathan Goldenberg) Reptiles living in open habitats generally have brighter colouration than species living in denser vegetation. This is shown in a new study from Lund University in Sweden. The results suggest that changes in habitat

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/reptiles-are-brightest-open-habitats - 2025-05-08

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 9 April 2025 “Even with the simpler method of analysis, the blood test gives highly accurate results for Alzheimer’s disease pathology,” says Sebastian Palmqvist, associate professor and senior lecturer in neurology at Lund University. Photo: iStock A simpler method of analysing blood samples for Alzheimer’s disease has been t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/more-opportunities-test-alzheimers-using-new-analytical-method - 2025-05-08

Published 9 April 2025 Photo: MIRMAXSTOCK About 540 million years ago, our planet suddenly erupted with life, filling our oceans with a diversity of complex life. This is known as the Cambrian explosion, and for a long time scientists agreed it was triggered by a rise in oxygen levels in the atmosphere. But new research from Emma Hammarlund at Lund University is turning the tables completely on wh

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-animal-life-exploded-earth - 2025-05-08

By sanna [dot] trygg [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Sanna Trygg) - published 11 April 2025 "The voices of the survivors make clear how incredibly fragile a democracy is; how quickly the moral foundations of a society can crumble and make the unthinkable possible." Says Erik Renström, Vice-Chancellor of Lund University.    Ten years’ work has paid off – UNESCO has added the unique archive of

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ravensbruck-archive-lund-receives-memory-world-status - 2025-05-08

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 15 April 2025 “Today’s guidelines recommend stepwise addition of lipid-lowering treatment. But it’s often the case that this escalation takes too long, it’s ineffective and patients are lost to follow-up", says Margrét LeósdóttirPhoto: Åsa Hansdotter Patients suffering from myocardial infarction who receive early add-o

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/simple-medication-can-save-lives-cardiac-patients - 2025-05-08

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 24 April 2025 "We could potentially deploy these bacteria to capture methane that is released by diverse sources, from livestock farms to thawing permafrost", says Vasili Hauryliuk. Photo: iStock What if we could fight climate change using bacteria that live on air? That’s the vision behind a newly funded international researc

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/living-air-scientists-enlist-arctic-bacteria-fight-climate-change - 2025-05-08

By theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Theo Hagman-Rogowski) - published 28 April 2025 Central Asian States. Photo: CC A consortium helmed by Lund University in Sweden has been awarded a major EU grant to establish an international doctoral programme on the theme of society and law in authoritarian states in Central Asia. The aim is to promote democratisation and positive soc

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sek-60-million-doctoral-programme-authoritarian-asian-states - 2025-05-08

Published 7 May 2025 Researchers Maria Svensson Coelho and Hannah Blossom perform winter sampling of the green alga Chlamydomonas in Lake Krageholmssjön. (Photo: Karin Rengefors) Humans and animals are not the only ones affected by viruses. Unicellular organisms can also be attacked. In a new study, scientists establish that green algae can carry latent giant virus DNA in their genome. Biology res

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unicellular-green-algae-may-carry-giant-virus-dna-their-genome - 2025-05-08

Published 21 March 2011 The European Commission has listed the 50 organisations that receive the most money from the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development. Lund University is in 23rd place and is the only full-scale Swedish university to make the list. Lund University has received a total of EUR 50 million for 110 different research projects. It is primarily research within

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-researchers-successful-obtaining-eu-funding - 2025-05-08

Published 30 November 2023 Images of brain scans Researchers have succeeded in restoring lost brain function in mouse models of stroke using small molecules that in the future could potentially be developed into a stroke recovery therapy. “Communication between nerve cells in large parts of the brain changes after a stroke and we show that it can be partially restored with the treatment”, says Tad

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-study-lost-brain-function-restored-after-stroke - 2025-05-08

Published 30 November 2023 Photo: Maj Rundlöf  A new study from Lund confirms that pesticides commonly used in farmland significantly harm bumblebees. Data from 106 sites across 8 European countries show that despite tightened pesticide regulations, more needs to be done.Despite claims of the world's most rigorous risk assessment process, the use of approved pesticides in European agricultural lan

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/commonly-used-pesticides-are-still-harming-bees - 2025-05-08

Published 5 December 2023 Lund University has been rated number 8 in the world out of 1,403 universities assessed in the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability, which ranks sustainable development at higher education institutions around the globe. This places the University third-best in Europe and highest in Sweden. The QS World University Rankings: Sustainability is a framework for showing

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-ranks-top-10-global-sustainability-ranking - 2025-05-08

Published 5 December 2023 The image, taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, shows a high-resolution view of the innermost parts of the Milky Way. In the new study, the researchers examined the dense nuclear star cluster shown in detail here. (Photo: ESO) Through analysis of high-resolution data from a ten-metre telescope in Hawaii, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have succeeded i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/astronomers-determine-age-three-mysterious-baby-stars-heart-milky-way - 2025-05-08