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Sara Linse, Professor of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant worth 2.5 million euro. Chemistry professor Sara Linse’s research project, CHAPLIN, is to investigate the thermodynamic basis for how a group of chaperone proteins work. This applies to chaperone proteins that increase other proteins’ solubility and thereby protect against neurogenerative diseases

https://www.science.lu.se/article/chemist-receives-prestigious-grant-european-research-council - 2025-11-07

Seeds and fat balls do more than just fill small birds’ stomachs. New research from Lund University in Sweden shows that feeding during the wintertime causes birds to be healthier, since they do not have to expend as much energy fighting infections. A small change in body temperature can be fatal for humans. Small birds, meanwhile, lower their body temperature at night by several degrees during th

https://www.science.lu.se/article/bird-feeding-helps-small-birds-fight-infection - 2025-11-07

By studying green algae in Swedish lakes, a research team, led by Lund University in Sweden, has succeeded in identifying which environmental conditions promote multicellularity. The results give us new clues to the amazing paths of evolution. The evolution of multicellular life has played a pivotal role in shaping biological diversity. However, we have up until now known surprisingly little about

https://www.science.lu.se/article/algae-swedish-lakes-provide-insights-how-complex-life-earth-developed - 2025-11-07

The rare metal terbium has been found in an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time. The researchers at Lund University in Sweden have also developed a new method for analyzing exoplanets, making it possible to study them in more detail. KELT-9 b is the galaxy’s hottest exoplanet, orbiting its distant star about 670 light years from Earth. The celestial body, with an average temperature of a sta

https://www.science.lu.se/article/scientists-discover-rare-element-exoplanets-atmosphere - 2025-11-07

Small bats are bad at converting energy into muscle power. Surprisingly, a new study led by Lund University reveals that this ability increases the faster they fly. The researchers have studied the efficiency of migratory bats – a species that weighs about eight grams and is found in almost all of Europe. Efficiency, in this case, is the ability to convert supplied energy into something we need. F

https://www.science.lu.se/article/bats-ability-convert-energy-muscle-power-affected-flight-speed - 2025-11-07

A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the ability of microorganisms to adapt to climate warming will slow down global warming by storing carbon in soil. In the study, researchers collected soil samples from across Europe in a wide range of temperatures, from minus 3.1 to 18.3 degrees Celsius. The samples revealed that microorganisms in soils – such as bacteria and fungi – are stron

https://www.science.lu.se/article/microorganisms-climate-adaptation-can-slow-down-global-warming - 2025-11-07

Insects heavily rely on bacteria for essential nutrients that are lacking in their diet. This has allowed insects to access a wide variety of food, leading to remarkable species diversification in some cases, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. Insects are crucial for biodiversity and among the most successful species on the planet. However, until now, it has been unclear how

https://www.science.lu.se/article/bacteria-are-vital-diversity-and-survival-insects - 2025-11-07

Great tits in urban environments have lower levels of stress hormone than those living in woodland habitats. This according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. Certain animals are able to adjust well to environments that have been created or altered by human activity. We live in an age in which urbanisation is proceeding at an ever-faster rate, something that also affects fauna. The gre

https://www.science.lu.se/article/urban-great-tits-less-stressed-their-countryside-cousins - 2025-11-07

The dry summer of 2018 hit Swedish forests hard - and hardest affected were the managed secondary forests. This according to a new study from Lund University. Northern boreal forest ecosystems are predicted to experience more frequent summer droughts in the future. The majority of Swedish forest are secondary forests that are managed commercial forests with little diversity in species and structur

https://www.science.lu.se/article/secondary-forests-more-sensitive-drought - 2025-11-07

Why are certain people more severely affected than others by invasive streptococcal infections? According to a new study from Lund University in Sweden, the answer lies in our genome. Carriers of a certain variant of the STING gene are at greater risk, particularly if they encounter the bacterial strains that have increased in the western world since the 1980s. The findings, published in Nature Co

https://www.science.lu.se/article/why-killer-bacteria-affect-some-people-more-severely - 2025-11-07

Corrosion-resistant metallic materials are required in applications such as rocket engines, nuclear power stations and chemical industry. An alloy of nickel, chromium and molybdenum is often used. However, a new study shows that this alloy rusts in a previously unknown way. Buildings, modes of transport, artworks and music instruments – we encounter metallic materials almost everywhere in society.

https://www.science.lu.se/article/researchers-reveal-deficiencies-corrosion-resistant-metallic-materials - 2025-11-07

A new study conducted by researchers in Europe shows that urban great tits have paler plumage than their countryside counterparts. Since the yellow pigment of the breast feathers of great tits comes from the food they eat, the paler yellow plumage of urban birds indicates that the urban environment affects the entire food chain. As urban areas expand, animals increasingly find themselves living in

https://www.science.lu.se/article/urban-great-tits-have-paler-plumage-their-forest-living-relatives - 2025-11-07

Two researchers at the Department of Biology, Milda Pucetaite and Colin Olito, have been awarded starting grants from the European Research Council, ERC. The research projects aim to advance methods in microbiological ecology and map the development of sex chromosomes. Milda Pucetaite Researcher in microbiological ecology. Project: “Tracing single-cell scale chemical signaling between interacting

https://www.science.lu.se/article/two-biology-researchers-receive-generous-starting-grants-european-research-council - 2025-11-07

Anne L'Huillier, Professor of Atomic Physics at the Department of Physics, is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023. Read more about Anne L'Huillier: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 | Lund University's main website

https://www.science.lu.se/article/nobel-prize-lund - 2025-11-07

One result of climate change is that spring is arriving earlier. However, migratory birds are not keeping up with these developments and arrive too late for the peak in food availability when it is time for breeding. By getting the birds to fly a little further north, researchers in Lund, Sweden, and the Netherlands have observed that these birds can give their chicks a better start in life. Globa

https://www.science.lu.se/article/migratory-birds-can-be-taught-adjust-climate-change - 2025-11-07

Lundasociologen Mikael Linnell har skrivit 2023-års bästa artikel i tidskriften Sociologisk forskning och får Segerstedtpriset. Artikeln ”Livet från den ljusa sidan: Sociologi och föreställningen om det radikalt annorlunda” publicerades i ett temanummer om klimatkrisen. Här berättar Mikael Linnell om artikeln och priset. Vad handlar artikeln om?Konkret handlar den om hur ett samhälle utan fokus på

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/pris-till-artikel-om-ett-samhalle-utan-tillvaxt - 2025-11-07

I början på april höll Lunds universitet Debatt i Lund på Grand Hotel. David Wästerfors, professor i sociologi, medverkade i debatten som den här gången handlade om korruption. En inspelning går nu att se för dem som missade tillfället. Sverige faller i Transparency Internationals årliga korruptionsindex och är nu sämst i Norden, med ett kraftigt tapp det senaste decenniet. Medierna rapporterar om

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/hur-korrupt-ar-sverige-en-debatt-om-vad-vi-gor-korruptionen-och-vad-den-gor-med-oss - 2025-11-07

I den nya boken 'Vietnam, a War, Not a Country' granskar sociologerna Magnus Ring, Ron Eyerman och Todd Madigan det mångfacetterade minneslandskapet kring Vietnamkriget. Från USA:s gator till vietnamesiska byar utforskar författarna hur minnet av kriget formas, ifrågasätts och utmanas. Vietnamkriget tolkas på olika sätt inom olika grupper och det råder ingen enhetlig uppfattning om hur det bör kom

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/vietnamkriget-kulturella-trauman-och-kollektivt-minne - 2025-11-07

Avslutningsceremonin för dem som har gått kandidatprogrammen i Sociologi och Socialantropologi hölls i Gamla Biskopshuset med tal, quiz och diplomutdelning. Den 31 maj hölls avslutningsceremonin där kandidaterna fick träffas, lyssna på tal av Sociologiska institutionens prefekt Magnus Karlsson, programkoordinatorerna Bo Isenberg (sociologi) och Nina Gren (socialantropologi) samt Balthazar Gras, st

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/festlig-ceremoni-kandidater - 2025-11-07

I kölvattnet av covid-19-pandemin har användningen av kommunikationsteknik och digitala verktyg i brottmålsdomstolar världen över ökat kraftigt. Teknik som videolänkar, AI, e-bevisning, Zoom-rättegångar och till och med VR-domstolar håller på att bli vanliga. Detta skifte väcker grundläggande frågor om hur tekniken förändrar traditionella rättegångskoncept som deltagande och hur man bäst införliva

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/framtidens-rattsvasende-insikter-fran-virtual-criminal-justice-network-conference - 2025-11-07