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Researchers have for the first time determined that hybridization between two bird species can give rise to several novel and fully functional hybrid genomic combinations. This could potentially be because hybrid species emerged through independent hybridisation events between the same parent species on different islands. Swedish and Norwegian researchers have studied island populations of a hybri

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hybridization-can-give-rise-different-genome-combinations - 2025-09-29

Can tumors teach us about animal evolution on Earth? Researchers believe so and now present a novel hypothesis of why animal diversity increased dramatically on Earth about half a billion years ago. A biological innovation may have been key. A transdisciplinary and international team, from Lund University in Sweden and University of Southern Denmark presents their findings in Nature and Ecology. T

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/novel-hypothesis-why-animals-diversified-earth - 2025-09-29

We are currently experiencing technical problems sending emails from Lund University email accounts to Microsoft’s free email services. This mainly applies to Hotmail, Outlook and Live email addresses, but it may also apply to other email services. If you are trying to contact us from such an email account and have not received a reply after several days, it may be that our reply is not reaching y

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/problems-sending-emails-lu-email-accounts-microsoft-email-services - 2025-09-29

Researchers have long wondered how our cells navigate inside the body. Two new studies, in which Lund University researcher Pontus Nordenfelt has participated, have now demonstrated that the cells use molecular force from within to steer themselves in a certain direction. This knowledge may be of great significance in the development of new drugs. Pontus Nordenfelt, researcher in infection medicin

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-cells-are-able-turn - 2025-09-29

Nicholas Loubere at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, shares some reflections on the major achievements as well as the downsides of China’s reform period ahead of the upcoming conference “Assessing 40 Years of Reform and Opening in China” What have been the major changes in China since the reform and opening, both for society as a whole and for the Chinese people? Can you give any

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/assessing-40-years-reform-and-opening-china-conference - 2025-09-29

Last autumn, the unique Ravensbrück Archive was opened to the general public as well as to researchers. Now requests are flooding in from all over the world to the archive in Lund, Sweden. “We are touched by the response”, says Håkan Håkansson at the University Library. Saturday 27 January is international Holocaust Remembrance Day. Just over three months have passed since the Ravensbrück Archive

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/thousands-visitors-search-ravensbruck-archive-information - 2025-09-29

Certain microorganisms are used to stimulate cultivated plants’ growth and disease resistance. Sometimes such bio-fertilisers works well, sometimes not. Now, researchers at Lund University, Sweden, are to study the exact requirements for improving the growth of sugar beet. If they succeed, biological fertilisers of crops will provide more benefits and bigger harvests. In a newly completed study, t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-optimise-sugar-beet-bio-fertilisers - 2025-09-29

Researcher Jesper Wallentin at the Department of Physics at Lund University in Sweden has received a grant of approximately SEK 15 million for a research project on the ability of nanowires to act as detectors for X-ray radiation. If successfully developed, this technology could enable X-rays of single cells, for example. Wallentin’s project is about investigating whether nanowires can be used as

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/physicist-awarded-millions-research-x-rays-using-nanowires - 2025-09-29

Astronomers have managed to take unusually colourful images of a group of galaxies using a telescope in Hawaii. The photos reveal new facts about this spectacular galaxy cluster. Remnants of star matter attest to a phenomenon known as galactic cannibalism. At a distance of approximately 250 million light years from our planet lies a galaxy cluster called Stephan’s Quintet. It consists of several c

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/colourful-photo-reveals-cannibalism-galaxy-cluster - 2025-09-29

A major international study shows that if cardiac arrest patients are treated like heart attack patients only, this will potentially have negative consequences on their rehabilitation and return to working life. These patients often lack follow-up of the injuries they may have suffered to the brain in connection with their cardiac arrest, the researchers found. It can happen anywhere, at any time

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/inadequate-follow-many-cardiac-arrest-patients - 2025-09-29

A previously unknown language has been found in the Malay Peninsula by linguists from Lund University in Sweden. The language has been given the name Jedek. “Documentation of endangered minority languages such as Jedek is important, as it provides new insights into human cognition and culture”, says Joanne Yager, doctoral student at Lund University. “Jedek is not a language spoken by an unknown tr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/listen-unknown-language-discovered-southeast-asia - 2025-09-29

The Novo Nordisk Foundation recently made the announcement to grant DKK 225 million to Lund University for the construction and operation of MicroMAX, a new beamline for the MAX IV research facility in Lund, Sweden. The beamline will become one of the world’s strongest protein microscopes and an important tool for researchers studying proteins. “We are extremely pleased that the Novo Nordisk Found

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/millions-invested-new-beamline-max-iv - 2025-09-29

Sweden is trending right now, with cultural concepts such as “lagom” (just enough) and “fika” (coffee break) selling everything from books to fashion. The nation is often seen as a social democratic model country, where people are egalitarian, wealthy and happy. As Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of the Swedish multinational furniture retailer IKEA, recently passed away, it is interesting to reflect o

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-ikeas-founder-exported-certain-image-sweden-frugality-fika - 2025-09-29

Chemistry professor Kenneth Wärnmark at Lund University in Sweden has been awarded SEK 35 million for a research project about using iron molecules to develop solar cells and solar fuel. The grant is aimed at producing cheaper and more environmentally-friendly materials that can capture the energy of the sun. Kenneth Wärnmark has for many years conducted research on the possibilities of developing

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/major-investment-more-environmentally-friendly-solar-energy - 2025-09-29

Nocturnal animals can use the stars and the Milky Way to find their way during the darkest hours. While animal navigation is studied all over the world, some of the leading researchers are based at Lund University in Sweden. In a recent article they sum up the research so far and give their thoughts on challenges to come. There are advantages to being active in the night. Fewer parasites are activ

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/starry-sky-shows-nocturnal-animals-way - 2025-09-29

The enzyme that produces DNA building blocks plays an important role when cells divide. In a new study, researchers have discovered for the first time that the so-called master switch of the enzyme can change locations - while still performing the same task. Regardless of whether you are human, a worm or a bacterium, all beings need to create new cells in order to grow or to replace old cells. But

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unexpected-discovery-about-essential-enzyme - 2025-09-29

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a new link between gut bacteria and obesity. They found that certain amino acids in our blood can be connected to both obesity and the composition of the gut microbiome. We know less about the significance of our gut bacteria than what many books and magazines on the subject seem to suggest. A lot of the research on the topic is based on ani

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-link-between-gut-bacteria-and-obesity - 2025-09-29

US cities facing sea level rise need to look beyond traditional strategies for managing issues such as critical erosion and coastal squeeze, according to new research from Lund University. Civil society initiatives must now play a crucial role in adapting society to climate change, the study argues. Using the City of Flagler Beach in Florida as a case study, researcher Chad Boda illustrates that t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-sea-level-rise-urgently-requires-new-forms-decision-making-study - 2025-09-29

A completely new classification of diabetes which also predicts the risk of serious complications and provides treatment suggestions. We are now seeing the first results of ANDIS – a study covering all newly diagnosed diabetics in southern Sweden — published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. The major difference from today’s classification is that type 2 diabetes actually consists of several

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/paradigm-shift-diagnosis-diabetes - 2025-09-29

A researcher from Lund University in Sweden has managed to install a huge curtain in a remote cloud forest in South America. The aim is to study how these valuable forests are affected if clouds are elevated due to global warming. The world’s cloud forests are facing the threat of rapid climate change, as global warming may lead to clouds being pushed higher up in the sky. If the lowest level of c

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/giant-curtain-will-help-scientists-study-threats-against-cloud-forests - 2025-09-29