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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a unique project, researchers from Lund University in Sweden, together with universities in South Africa, the Netherlands and the USA, will for the first time systematise large amounts of historical data from the Dutch East India Company’s colonisation of South Africa. Their aim: to find out when and how colonial p

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/economic-historians-seeking-roots-south-africas-inequality - 2026-08-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. It has long been known that the choice of shoe, surface and type of sport can all be contributing factors when someone suffers an anterior cruciate ligament rupture. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now observed that genes also play a decisive role. By analysing data from the Swedish Twin Register along w

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/genes-play-role-common-knee-injury - 2026-08-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have recorded coughs resolved at high temporal resolution - 8,000 images per second - and high detection sensitivity, using laser light scattering. This enabled them to count the number of droplets as well as measure their speed with high accuracy. The preliminary results show

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-85-cough-droplets-blocked-surgical-mask-experiment-shows - 2026-08-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In order to study how the brain functions and to develop new technologies for treating neurological diseases, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed tissue-friendly and flexible microelectrodes that are roughly one tenth as thick as a strand of hair. Three of the doctoral students in the research team

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/three-row-hat-trick-brain-electrodes - 2026-08-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a recent study, researchers from Imperial College London developed a model to assess the effect of different measures used to curb the spread of the coronavirus. However, the model had fundamental shortcomings and cannot be used to draw the published conclusions, claim Swedish researchers from Lund University, and

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/model-used-evaluate-lockdowns-was-flawed - 2026-08-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have now drawn an exciting conclusion regarding massive stars that can be observed in the outskirts of many spiral galaxies. These objects appear to be “runaway” stars that have been ejected to areas where no stars can form at all. Some ten years ago, the research community d

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/astronomers-find-explanation-mysterious-stars - 2026-08-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Christelle Prinz, professor of solid state physics, and Edouard Berrocal, researcher in combustion physics, will each receive EUR 150 000 to further develop research results deemed by the European Research Council funding body to have great innovative potential. Traces viruses in the body in a new way For several year

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prestigious-erc-grants-new-covid-test-and-spectrometer - 2026-08-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, in collaboration with colleagues in Dresden, Germany, have developed a way of combining a bone substitute and drugs to regenerate bone and heal severe fractures in the thigh or shin bone. The study, published in the research journal Science Advances, was conducted on rats, but

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-method-heals-skeletal-injuries-synthetic-bone - 2026-08-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Half of all young people treated for severe obesity have neuropsychiatric problems, according to a new study by researchers from Lund University and Gothenburg, Sweden, among others. Two thirds of the teens suffered from some type of mental health problem, as reported by themselves or their parents. Both obesity and m

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-study-shows-correlation-between-teen-obesity-and-mental-health-issues - 2026-08-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The fluttery flight of butterflies has so far been somewhat of a mystery to researchers, given their unusually large and broad wings relative to their body size. Now researchers at Lund University in Sweden have studied the aerodynamics of butterflies in a wind tunnel. The results suggest that butterflies use a highly

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/butterfly-wing-clap-explains-mystery-flight - 2026-08-17

Sweden’s industry uses about one third of the country’s entire energy consumption. How can industry convert to a better considered and sustainable circular economy? Researchers at Lund University are working closely with companies to find smarter solutions that focus on improving sustainability in materials recycling. We would like to have an electric car, solar cells on our roof or the latest mod

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/recycling-alpha-and-omega-sustainable-circular-economy - 2026-08-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Becoming a parent often brings great joy, but not always. Parenthood also entails challenges, stress and, for some people, it can trigger depression. A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that male postnatal depression is more common in men who are insecure in their relationship with their partner. Depressi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/depression-new-fathers-connected-relationship-insecurities - 2026-08-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For those who are diagnosed and have begun treatment for HIV, it is standard practice to regularly monitor viral load in the blood to assess response to treatment. A study of people living with HIV in Ethiopia shows that poverty and labour mobility are linked to high viral load despite treatment, indicating treatment

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hiv-treatment-ethiopia-socioeconomic-challenge - 2026-08-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Theories were introduced as far back as the 1960s about the possible existence of superheavy elements. Their most long-lived nuclei could give rise to a so-called “island of stability” far beyond the element uranium. However, a new study, led by nuclear physicists at Lund University, shows that a 50-year-old nuclear p

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nuclear-physicists-voyage-towards-mythical-island - 2026-08-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University welcomes Mikael Dolsten, head of research at Pfizer, as invited speaker to a webinar: ”Pfizer Rapid Response: Rising to Meet the Crisis” on February 12th at 15.45-17.15. Preregistration is required. Mikael Dolsten, head of research at Pfizer, who led the development of Pfizer’s and BioNTech’s Covid-19

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/webinar-mikael-dolsten-head-research-pfizer - 2026-08-17

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden believe they have identified a gene variant that can cause cerebral small vessel disease and stroke. The study is published in Neurology Genetics. ”The patients we have studied are from the same extended family, and several of them have been diagnosed with cerebral small vessel disease and suffered strokes. After tissue examination and using genetic sequenc

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-gene-variant-linked-stroke - 2026-08-17

Ten years have passed since the countries of the world signed the Paris Agreement. Political scientist Fariborz Zelli sums up the surprises – both positive and negative – in climate policy over the past ten years and also looks ahead. What has been the biggest success of the Paris Agreement so far?I would say the biggest success is that the UN has succeeded in keeping its central role in global cl

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/decade-paris-agreement-brings-progress-and-setbacks - 2026-08-17

Current knowledge of food safety is based on traditional foods that include animal products. Corresponding knowledge of plant-based foods lags behind. “There is a naive belief that plant-based food is safer than animal-based food. Unfortunately, this is not the case,” says Jenny Schelin, a researcher on food safety at Lund University in Sweden. “Plant-based foods are just as vulnerable to the same

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researcher-challenges-myth-plant-based-food-safer - 2026-08-17

Archaeologist Peter Jordan has together with colleagues from the UK and the US received the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant. The research aims to shed new light on the demography of hunter-gatherer societies, potentially shifting our understanding of human history over the past 10,000 years entirely. The project FORAGER will examine why certain hunter-gatherer societies experienced both population g

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-archaeologist-awarded-erc-synergy-grant - 2026-08-17

Alfa Laval and Lund University have formalized a new strategic partnership to strengthen collaboration, drive innovation, and address complex global challenges. At the same time, ground breaks for Alfa Lavals upcoming innovation center – a center that will drive the energy transition through, among other things, the development of heat transfer technology and fuel cells. Building on decades of suc

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/alfa-laval-and-lund-university-strengthen-strategic-partnership - 2026-08-17