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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 - 2025-12-19

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 - 2025-12-19

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 - 2025-12-19

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 - 2025-12-19

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 - 2025-12-19

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 - 2025-12-19

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 - 2025-12-19

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 - 2025-12-19

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 - 2025-12-19

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 - 2025-12-19

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 - 2025-12-19

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 - 2025-12-19

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 - 2025-12-19

Priset till yngre forskare i psykologi har 2017 tilldelats Arvid Erlandsson. Arvid Erlandsson disputerade 2015 vid Lunds universitet och arbetar idag på Linköpings universitet.Motiveringen lyder:”För att han med sina studier inom socialpsykologi kombinerar teoretisk analys med snillrik experimentell design. I studier som präglas av kreativitet och originalitet har han systematiskt undersökt intera

https://www.psy.lu.se/artikel/pris-till-yngre-forskare-i-psykologi - 2025-12-19

Vi söker en lektor i psykologi! Nu söker vi en lektor i psykologi till institutionen. Sista ansökningsdag är den 22 april.Universitetslektor i psykologi – Lunds universitet

https://www.psy.lu.se/artikel/jobba-hos-oss-0 - 2025-12-19

– När jag ser papparollsidealet i dag ser jag en kopia av moderskaps­myten. Jag är orolig över att män håller på att hamna där många kvinnor har varit i relation till att vara förälder, att man aldrig kan vara nöjd och ständigt känner att man borde ha gjort mer. Det menar utvecklingspsykologen Elia Psouni i en intervju med LUM. "Jämställda pappor riskerar gå i klassisk kvinnofälla" - LUMElia Psoun

https://www.psy.lu.se/artikel/jamstallda-pappor-riskerar-ga-i-klassisk-kvinnofalla - 2025-12-19

Ansökan är öppen 15 mars till 16 april för fristående kurser, Beteendevetenskapliga programmet och Psykologprogrammet, samt även kompletteringsutbildningen för psykologer. Våra olika utbildningar hittar du här:Studera psykologiDu ansöker till våra program på antagning.seAntagning.se

https://www.psy.lu.se/artikel/studera-psykologi-du-ocksa - 2025-12-19

Katarina Lundberg, Oscar Kjell och Sverker Sikström vid Institutionen för psykologi tog emot förstapris för sitt verktyg baserat på artificiell intelligens och ordanalys för diagnos av psykisk ohälsa. Det var Lunds universitet och Sparbanken Skåne som på tisdagskvällen delade ut priser för framtidens innovationer. Katarina Lundberg, Oscar Kjell och Sverker Sikström vid Institutionen för psykologi

https://www.psy.lu.se/artikel/framtidens-innovationer-prisades-i-lund - 2025-12-19

Sverker Sikström vid Institutionen för psykologi har fått anslag från Familjen Kamprads stiftelse. Projektet har namnet "Förbättrad diagnostik för psykisk ohälsa hos äldre: implementering av beslutsstöd baserat på beskrivande ord och artificiell intelligens."Projektet genomförs av Lunds universitet i samverkan med bland annat Riksförbundet för depression och Sveriges Pensionärsförbund och beviljas

https://www.psy.lu.se/artikel/fyra-miljoner-forskning-om-psykisk-ohalsa-hos-aldre - 2025-12-19

Nu finns en ny rapport i serien Lund Psychological Reports. Benjamin Claréus och Emma A. Bäck har skrivit ”An investigation of physical pain among Swedish community adults: Sample demographics and pain characteristics”. Data har samlats in via en internetenkät och baseras på svaren från 1184 personer.An investigation of physical pain among Swedish community adults: Sample demographics and pain cha

https://www.psy.lu.se/artikel/ny-rapport-om-fysisk-smarta - 2025-12-19