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The emergence and evolution of photosynthesis played a decisive role when life on earth began four billion years ago. In the past decade, some researchers have presented claims that quantum mechanical coherence plays an important role in this complex process. These ideas have now been critically evaluated in a study published in the scientific journal Science Advances. Photosynthesis, in which liv

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-study-undermines-ideas-importance-special-quantum-mechanical-effects-photosynthesis - 2025-10-05

The extreme cold, harsh environment and constant hunt for food means that Arctic animals have become specialists in saving energy. Now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a previously unknown energy-saving method used by birds during the polar night. Researchers from Lund University and the University of Tromsø have examined the immune system strength of the Svalbard rock pta

https://www.science.lu.se/article/arctic-wildlife-uses-extreme-method-save-energy - 2025-10-05

For the first time, an international research team has succeeded in quantifying the toxic oligomers that break down the nerve cells in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. The discovery could be crucial in the hunt for new methods to limit the rapidly growing dementia disease. For the first time, an international research team has succeeded in quantifying the toxic oligomers that break down the ner

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-discovery-facilitates-hunt-methods-limit-alzheimers-disease - 2025-10-05

An international research team has discovered a treatment that dramatically reduces swelling after brain and spinal cord damage. By using an already approved drug on rats, the brain’s water channels could be manipulated with positive results. The new study offers hope to the millions of people who are affected by brain and spinal cord damage. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), aroun

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-study-brains-water-channels-offers-hope-those-brain-and-spinal-cord-damage - 2025-10-05

In a future warmer climate, evaporation from the northern hemisphere’s wetlands will increase significantly more than previously thought. This is shown by an international study involving researchers from Lund University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. The new discovery provides important knowledge about how the world water balance will be affected in the future. The availabil

https://www.science.lu.se/article/rising-temperatures-affect-wetlands-and-disrupt-water-balance - 2025-10-05

A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that female birds benefit more from extra food in the winter. If females receive additional food, they do not need to reduce their body temperature as much as they would have otherwise, and the chances of surviving cold nights increase. Birds possess an extreme ability to regulate their own body temperature. On cold winter nights, they reduce their

https://www.science.lu.se/article/bird-feeding-helps-females-more-males - 2025-10-05

Extensive power outages and satellite blackouts that affect air travel and the internet are some of the potential consequences of massive solar storms. These storms are believed to be caused by the release of enormous amounts of stored magnetic energy due to changes in the magnetic field of the sun’s outer atmosphere - something that until now has eluded scientists’ direct measurement. Researchers

https://www.science.lu.se/article/breakthrough-method-predicting-solar-storms - 2025-10-05

The question of how small, dwarf galaxies have sustained the formation of new stars over the course of the Universe has long confounded the world’s astronomers. An international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has found that dormant small galaxies can slowly accumulate gas over many billions of years. When this gas suddenly collapses under its own weight, new stars are able to arise

https://www.science.lu.se/article/how-stars-form-smallest-galaxies - 2025-10-05

Colourful common wall lizards and an innovative X-ray microscope. Two researchers from the Faculty of Science have been granted five-year starting grants totalling EUR 3.5 million from the European Research Council. Nathalie Feiner, researcher in evolutionary biology, will focus on parallel evolution among six species of common wall lizards found in the Mediterranean region. By analysing the genes

https://www.science.lu.se/article/two-researchers-faculty-science-share-sek-35-million-european-research-council - 2025-10-05

Compared with other migratory birds, the common swift follows a very unusual pattern when it migrates from the breeding areas in Europe to its wintering locations south of the Sahara. This is what researchers have observed in a major eleven-year international study of the birds. “Our study is very significant for understanding how organisms, in this case the common swift, can migrate from one part

https://www.science.lu.se/article/rare-pattern-observed-migrating-common-swifts - 2025-10-05

A galactic journey spanning the history of the Milky Way. The supernatural powers of migratory birds. Two exciting research projects will soon commence at Lund University thanks to a multi-million donation from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Time travel through the Milky WayTwo Lund astronomers, Sofia Feltzing and Oscar Agertz, will use a galactic time machine, partnering with colleague

https://www.science.lu.se/article/research-projects-galaxies-and-migratory-birds-awarded-grants - 2025-10-05

Insects have difficulties handling the higher temperatures brought on by climate change, and might risk overheating. The ability to reproduce is also strongly affected by rising temperatures, even in northern areas of the world, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. Insects cannot regulate their own body temperature, which is instead strongly influenced by the temperature in the

https://www.science.lu.se/article/high-temperatures-threaten-survival-insects - 2025-10-05

The dance that binary stars do around each other offers new clues to the chemical evolution of our Galaxy, the Milky Way – so says a current research study. For the first time, researchers have identified the link between the orbiting times of certain binary stars and the amount of iron in their interiors. Binary stars are systems containing two stars that orbit each other thanks to their mutual g

https://www.science.lu.se/article/iron-binary-stars-reflects-galaxys-chemical-evolution - 2025-10-05

She wants to shed new light on the dark matter that has long baffled the world of research. Now, researcher in particle physics Caterina Doglioni is receiving 2 million euro from the European Research Council (ERC). Caterina Doglioni, assistant senior lecturer in particle physics, is receiving around 2 million euro to build up a research team over five years to look for new particles that could of

https://www.science.lu.se/article/prestigious-grant-particle-physicist - 2025-10-05

How do bees always find their way home, not to mention in a straight line? What is it about the insect brain that allows them to navigate so easily? Could we copy that function? A step in this direction has now been taken by a group of scientists in a project combining the fields of biology, physics, nanoscience and informatics. At first, the line looks like a jumble. It makes turns in all directi

https://www.science.lu.se/article/mimicking-navigation-insect-brain - 2025-10-05

Det har varit filminspelning på Campus Helsingborg! Även om det kanske inte gick till exakt som i en stor filmstudio så var stämningen i alla fall på topp, när studentambassadörerna Elin Franzén, Malcolm Thorburn och Viktoria Grönvall filmade en föreläsning. De studerar allihopa på Institutionen för service management och tjänstevetenskap och tanken är att filmen ska läggas ut på institutionens he

https://www.ses.lu.se/artikel/nu-blir-det-film-om-studentlivet-pa-campus - 2025-10-05

Några frågor till Fredrik Nilsson om seminariet med presentation av hans text ”Under ytan, i skuggan och bakom fasaden: Om spritsmuggling, kriminella tjänster och heterotopier”. Syftet med studien är att undersöka varför vissa platser blev viktiga för smugglarna och varför en del platser var svåra att kontrollera för myndigheterna. I begreppet heterotopier är den rumsliga ordningen genomsyrad av m

https://www.ses.lu.se/artikel/under-ytan-i-skuggan-och-bakom-fasaden - 2025-10-05

Ännu en avhandling i tjänstevetenskap har spikats på institutionen. Nu var det Alma Raissova som fullföljde denna tradition inför sin kommande disputation. Uppslutningen var stor i personalrummet, där det bjöds på kaffe och tårta innan det var dags för Alma Raissova att svinga hammaren. Man kan notera att det nu har blivit så många avhandlingar på institutionen att det behövdes en ny bräda att spi

https://www.ses.lu.se/artikel/spikningsfika-pa-institutionen - 2025-10-05

Våra forskare Anette Svingstedt och Hervé Corvellec, har beviljats forskningsmedel på cirka 1,1 miljoner kronor, för projektet ”Att förebygga verksamhetsavfall: in- och upplåsningar” från Energimyndigheten. Fortsättning på tidigare projektProjektet ska pågå fram till slutet av februari 2019 och är en fortsättning på deras tidigare projekt: ”Frikopplingstjänster – En lösning för avfallsförebyggande

https://www.ses.lu.se/artikel/nytt-projekt-om-avfallsforebyggande-far-11-miljoner-kronor - 2025-10-05

Några frågor till Ida de Wit Sandström, som haft slutseminarium för sitt avhandlingsarbete, “Sommarbutiken – Kvinnor och köpenskap i kustens kommers”. Opponenter var Malin Espersson från Institutionen för service management och tjänstevetenskap och Magdalena Petersson McIntyre från Centrum för konsumtionsvetenskap vid Göteborgs universitet. Vad skriver du om?– Jag skriver om kvinnliga livsstilsent

https://www.ses.lu.se/artikel/seminarium-om-sommarbutiker - 2025-10-05