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Oscar Agertz, associate senior lecturer at the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, has been elected to the Young Academy of Sweden. Over the next five years he will work to inspire young people and strengthen the role of research in society. “I felt very happy and honoured when I got the news”, says Oscar Agertz. The Young Academy of Sweden brings together young, prominent researchers

https://www.science.lu.se/article/astronomy-researcher-elected-young-academy-sweden - 2025-09-29

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 important keys to the geological history of our neighbouring planet, and it also intensifies the search for life. A cloud of red smoke. And a couple of seconds of unce

https://www.science.lu.se/article/analysis-36-billion-year-old-lake-intensifies-search-life-mars - 2025-09-29

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 has now shown that the crater is probably much older. For several hundred years, humans have been fascinated by the Tycho crater, which is

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-doctoral-thesis-questions-dating-known-lunar-crater - 2025-09-29

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 Anders Tunlid, is now introducing a new type of associate senior lectureship with benefits that will attract early-career researchers from all over the world. After an intensive morning of meetings, Anders Tunlid, sporting a new haircut, welcom

https://www.science.lu.se/article/creating-scope-cutting-edge-research-international-impact - 2025-09-29

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 - 2025-09-29

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 for the fir

https://www.science.lu.se/article/satellites-enable-monitoring-carbon-dioxide-emissions - 2025-09-29

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 collaboration within the faculty. But also closer collaboration with the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) to set up cutting-edge education at Brunnshög. The afternoon sun

https://www.science.lu.se/article/preparing-changing-landscape-first-and-second-cycle-education - 2025-09-29

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 American Chemical Society. Glionitrin A and B are two molec

https://www.science.lu.se/article/researchers-crack-synthetic-code-rare-molecules-sought-after-drug-development - 2025-09-29

Kerstin Johannesson, an evolutionary biologist who readily goes to sea to find answers to the big questions, and Georg Kresse, a physicist with outstanding achievements in computational science, have been appointed honorary doctors at the Faculty of Science, Lund University. Kerstin Johannesson is a professor of marine ecology at the University of Gothenburg and director of the Tjärnö Marine Labor

https://www.science.lu.se/article/biologist-involved-popular-education-and-prolifically-cited-physicist-have-been-appointed-new - 2025-09-29

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. The new study clarifies how environmental disruptions can set off major evolutionary processes. Brittle stars are a group of echinoderms that are closely related to st

https://www.science.lu.se/article/brittle-star-fossils-gotland-provide-unique-insights-evolutionary-change - 2025-09-29

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 researchers is that the storm took place during one of the sun's more quiet phases – during which it is generally believed our planet is less exposed to such events. The sun is a prerequisite

https://www.science.lu.se/article/ancient-ice-reveals-mysterious-solar-storm - 2025-09-29

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 dayside temperature of 3,200 degrees C

https://www.science.lu.se/article/exotic-cocktail-atmosphere-extreme-exoplanet - 2025-09-29

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 scale possible in the future. The results are published in Nature Communications. Manufacturing very small components is an important challenge in both resear

https://www.science.lu.se/article/researchers-create-molecule-can-pave-way-mini-transistors - 2025-09-29

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 in the future. The study is published in Nature Communications. The sunlight that hits Earth during one

https://www.science.lu.se/article/breakthrough-converting-co2-fuel-using-solar-energy - 2025-09-29

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 Astronomy & Astrophysics. Ytterbium is one of four elements i

https://www.science.lu.se/article/astronomers-map-mysterious-element-space - 2025-09-29

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 lizards, or ichthyosaurs, were a very successful group of animals that, much like today's whales, migrated f

https://www.science.lu.se/article/researchers-reconstruct-ancient-fish-lizard - 2025-09-29

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 particularly vulnerable to climate change, and the same applies to many species. The researchers establis

https://www.science.lu.se/article/uns-climate-change-panel-world-must-act-now - 2025-09-29

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 published in Current Biology. The b

https://www.science.lu.se/article/black-swifts-descended-rapidly-during-lunar-eclipse - 2025-09-29

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 their behaviour, and how it evolved over 450 million years of evolution.

https://www.science.lu.se/article/two-researchers-receive-erc-consolidator-grants - 2025-09-29

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 Lund University in Sweden reveals new information about the movement patterns of these puzzling stars. White dwarfs have a radius of about 1 percent of the Sun’s. They have about the same mass,

https://www.science.lu.se/article/researchers-map-movement-white-dwarfs-milky-way - 2025-09-29