The image represents the crater area in which the Perseverance rover collected the images that have now been analysed in the study. Photo: Foto: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU. Using 150 000 images from the Perseverance space rover, an international research team has studied the Western delta in Jezero crater, Mars, revealing evidence of deltas that advanced into a lake. The new discovery not only provides

https://www.science.lu.se/article/analysis-36-billion-year-old-lake-intensifies-search-life-mars - 2025-08-25

The bright side of the moon. The enormous Tycho crater is visible in white at the bottom edge of the image. Photo: PHOTO: NASA/JPL/USGS. Over one hundred million years ago, the impact of an asteroid on the moon formed the giant crater Tycho, which is visible from Earth. The date of this event is established as being 109 million years ago, but a new doctoral thesis from Lund University in Sweden ha

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-doctoral-thesis-questions-dating-known-lunar-crater - 2025-08-25

Computational science, which is an element in both research and education at several of the faculty’s departments, is another area that Anders Tunlid considers could be profiled and strengthened around the Knowledge Highway on Sölvegatan. Several high-profile science researchers with major grants will be retiring in the next few years. In order to secure growth, the faculty, led by vice dean Ander

https://www.science.lu.se/article/creating-scope-cutting-edge-research-international-impact - 2025-08-25

The Faculty of Science wants to provide early-career researchers with an opportunity over a six-year period to develop a long-term research activity as well as qualify for promotion to senior lecturer. The faculty is therefore announcing vacancies for up to four positions as associate senior lecturer within the faculty’s subject areas. In order to support the formation of a research team, resource

https://www.science.lu.se/article/faculty-announces-four-advantageous-associate-senior-lectureships - 2025-08-25

Image: OHB. Researchers have developed a model that can calculate individual countries' carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning using observations from space. The new results could be put to use within the Earth observation programme Copernicus, when satellites will be sent into space in the coming years. At the COP26 climate summit, the nations of the world agreed on a new document that

https://www.science.lu.se/article/satellites-enable-monitoring-carbon-dioxide-emissions - 2025-08-25

The pandemic brought many abrupt changes for the faculty’s deputy dean Karin Hall. But she is used to change, having grown up in both Svalöv and Los Angeles. After working in a kind of state of emergency for 18 months, Karin Hall is now looking towards the future. On the deputy dean’s wish-list is further development of education, reduction of bureaucracy for teaching staff and increased collabora

https://www.science.lu.se/article/preparing-changing-landscape-first-and-second-cycle-education - 2025-08-25

Niels Koning and Daniel Strand. Photo: Johan Joelsson. A research team at Lund University in Sweden has succeeded in producing two molecules that are otherwise only formed by microorganisms from extremely contaminated wastewater in an abandoned mine in South Korea. The method, which took four years to develop, could pave the way for new types of drugs. The study is published in Journal of the Amer

https://www.science.lu.se/article/researchers-crack-synthetic-code-rare-molecules-sought-after-drug-development - 2025-08-25

Kerstin Johannesson, professor of marine ecology at the University of Gothenburg and Georg Kresse, professor of physics at the University of Vienna, have been appointed new honorary doctors at the Faculty of Science. Photo: Susanne Liljenström/private. Kerstin Johannesson, an evolutionary biologist who readily goes to sea to find answers to the big questions, and Georg Kresse, a physicist with out

https://www.science.lu.se/article/biologist-involved-popular-education-and-prolifically-cited-physicist-have-been-appointed-new - 2025-08-25

Brittle stars clinging to mussels. The size of the brittle stars corresponds to that of the Silurian echinoderms examined in the study. Photo: Lea D. Numberger-Thuy. A research team has succeeded in analysing two temporally consecutive species of fossilised brittle stars. The findings show that a marine catastrophe 428 million years ago contributed to a radical change in the animals’ appearance. T

https://www.science.lu.se/article/brittle-star-fossils-gotland-provide-unique-insights-evolutionary-change - 2025-08-25

The sun. Photo: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Solar Dynamics Observatory, Aerospace Industries Association, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory. Through analyzes of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has found evidence of an extreme solar storm that occurred about 9,200 years ago. What puzzles the research

https://www.science.lu.se/article/ancient-ice-reveals-mysterious-solar-storm - 2025-08-25

Illustration by Bibiana Prinoth. Using high-resolution spectroscopy, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in mapping the atmosphere of an exoplanet located 322 light years from Earth. The knowledge gained about the hot gas surrounding the Jupiter-like planet is important for the understanding of Earth-like planets. WASP-189b is a planet outside our own solar system, with a daysi

https://www.science.lu.se/article/exotic-cocktail-atmosphere-extreme-exoplanet - 2025-08-25

Illustration of of electrons transferred between aromatic and non-aromatic rings in a hydrocarbon molecule. Illustration: Daniel Strand and Jonas Ahlstedt. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in developing a simple hydrocarbon molecule with a logic gate function, similar to that in transistors, in a single molecule. The discovery could make electric components on a molecular sc

https://www.science.lu.se/article/researchers-create-molecule-can-pave-way-mini-transistors - 2025-08-25

Tönu Pullerits and Kaibo Zheng by the laser spectroscopy setup used in the study. Photo: Pavel Chabera. A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has shown how solar power can convert carbon dioxide into fuel, by using advanced materials and ultra-fast laser spectroscopy. The breakthrough could be an important piece of the puzzle in reducing the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

https://www.science.lu.se/article/breakthrough-converting-co2-fuel-using-solar-energy - 2025-08-25

The McDonald Observatory in Texas. Photo: Ethan Tweedie. A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has provided an important clue to the origin of the element Ytterbium in the Milky Way, by showing that the element largely originates from supernova explosions. The groundbreaking research also provides new opportunities for studying the evolution of our galaxy. The study is published in Astr

https://www.science.lu.se/article/astronomers-map-mysterious-element-space - 2025-08-25

Professor Mats Eriksson, sculpture artist Esben Horn and researcher Johan Lindgren. Photo: Johan Joelsson. Geologists at Lund University in Sweden have mapped 300 years of research on the prehistoric marine reptiles known as ichthyosaurs. Using a uniquely well-preserved fossil, the team has also created the scientifically most up-to-date reconstruction of an ichthyosaur currently available. Fish l

https://www.science.lu.se/article/researchers-reconstruct-ancient-fish-lizard - 2025-08-25

A flooded village in Demak, Indonesia. Photo: Aji Styawan/Getty Images Climate Visuals Grant recipient. On Monday, the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a new report on how climate change is impacting nature and people worldwide, and on the necessity for adaptation. According to the researchers, more than three billion people live in environments that are p

https://www.science.lu.se/article/uns-climate-change-panel-world-must-act-now - 2025-08-25

Black swift. Photo: Zak Pohlen. An international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has managed to study the flight behaviour of the mysterious black swift. They found, among other things, that the black swift rises to extreme heights during a full moon, seemingly catching insects in the moonlight. And, during a lunar eclipse, the birds simultaneously lost altitude. The results are pub

https://www.science.lu.se/article/black-swifts-descended-rapidly-during-lunar-eclipse - 2025-08-25

Stanley Heinze and Anna Runemark. Photo: Johan Joelsson / private photo. Stanley Heinze and Anna Runemark, both researchers at the Department of Biology, have been awarded five-year grants from the European Research Council. Stanley Heinze, a researcher at the Department of Biology, will study insect brains and their neural circuits. His project deals with a specific part of the brain that governs

https://www.science.lu.se/article/two-researchers-receive-erc-consolidator-grants - 2025-08-25

Illustration of a white dwarf. Illustration: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), European Space Agency (ESA), Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and G. Bacon (STScI). White dwarfs were once normal stars similar to the Sun but then collapsed after exhausting all their fuel. These interstellar remnants have historically been difficult to study. However, a recent study from L

https://www.science.lu.se/article/researchers-map-movement-white-dwarfs-milky-way - 2025-08-25

Photo: Ahmed Akacha. With the aid of satellite images, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have uncovered unique data on the severe drought that hit Syria between 2007 and 2009. Previously, many politicians and researchers believed that it was decisive for the outbreak of war in 2011. However, the new results indicate that agricultural land had already recovered by 2010. When the war in Syria

https://www.science.lu.se/article/role-drought-syrian-war-was-exaggerated - 2025-08-25