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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Professor of Astronomy Melvyn Davies at Lund University discusses the legacy of renowned scientist Stephen Hawking. "He leaves the subject in a vibrant state", says Davies. Tell us about your research - what are you focusing on at the moment?Working with Ross Church and colleagues in the Department of Astronomy and Th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-astrophysicist-legacy-stephen-hawking - 2026-05-17

Social media provides a new environment that makes it possible to carefully edit the image you want to project of yourself. A study from Lund University in Sweden suggests that many people are prepared to pay to ”filter out” unfavorable information. Economists Håkan Holm and Margaret Samahita have investigated how we curate our social image on the web using game theory. Previous studies have been

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/people-are-willing-pay-curate-their-online-social-image - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. New research at Lund University in Sweden can now show what Stone Age people actually ate in southern Scandinavia 10 000 years ago. The importance of fish in the diet has proven to be greater than expected. So, if you want to follow a Paleo diet - you should quite simply eat a lot of fish. Osteologists Adam Boethius a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fish-accounted-surprisingly-large-part-stone-age-diet - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Recent developments in neuroscience set high requirements for sophisticated data management, not least when implantable Brain Machine Interfaces are used to establish electronic communication between the brain’s nerve cells and computers. A new method developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden makes it poss

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-method-manages-and-stores-data-millions-nerve-cells-real-time - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that even children with limited physical disabilities are at risk of developing mental issues later in life. Girls and adolescents from socio-economically vulnerable families are at greatest risk. The study was published in the reputable journal PLOS ONE. With the help

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/children-physical-disabilities-are-higher-risk-poor-mental-health - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In her upcoming thesis at Lund University in Sweden, biologist Elin Videvall shows that the composition of gut bacteria in birds has a major impact on whether their offspring will survive their first three months. “My findings could be important for increasing survival rates”, she says. Microorganisms such as bacteria

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gut-bacteria-can-mean-life-or-death-birds - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a major study, biologists at Lund University in Sweden have studied the role of chance in whether a species survives or dies out locally. One possible consequence according to the researchers, is that although conservation initiatives can save endangered species, sometimes chance can override such efforts. Species

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/chance-factor-survival-species - 2026-05-17

Per Augustsson at LTH and Filipe Pereira at the Faculty of Medicine have been awarded Proof of Concept grants from the European Research Council (ERC) in the first round of 2024. The ERC today announced 100 new Proof of Concept grants, of which a total of three were awarded to researchers in Sweden.The grants are only open to researchers who currently hold or have previously been awarded ERC grant

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-receive-prestigious-erc-grant - 2026-05-17

A commercially available blood test has now been trialled in routine healthcare. “The blood test showed about 90% reliability even in primary care. This may have major implications for all those individuals who seek help for memory loss and suspected Alzheimer’s,” say the researchers at Lund University in Sweden behind the study. Alzheimer’s disease affects one in five women and one in ten men ove

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/groundbreaking-alzheimers-blood-test-proves-highly-effective-primary-healthcare - 2026-05-17

Bumblebees have a great capacity to navigate despite their small brain size. This is borne out of new research conducted at Lund University in Sweden, among others. The research results can potentially benefit the development of navigation robots in crisis situations where GPS does not work, for example. According to the study, bumblebees appear capable of navigating as well as vertebrates can, an

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/bumblebees-sense-direction-rivals-humans - 2026-05-17

Lund University School of Economics and Management has now received its reaccreditation through both the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) and The Association of MBAs (AMBA). The triple accreditation, or the Triple Crown, is the combination of accreditations held by around 130 business schools worldwide (less than 1 per cent of all business schools). It is awarded by the three largest an

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-retains-its-triple-crown-accreditation - 2026-05-17

On Tuesday, 20 August, Lund University welcomed new international students for the autumn semester. A total of 4,500 international students have been accepted for studies at Lund University for the autumn of 2024. Among them, 1,000 are exchange students, while the remaining 3,500 include degree-seeking students at both undergraduate and advanced levels, as well as participants in Double Degree, Jo

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-international-students-arrive-lund-university - 2026-05-17

The income and education levels of a child’s environment determine their relationship to nature, not whether they live in a city or the countryside. This is the finding of a new study conducted by researchers at Lund University, Sweden. The results run counter to the assumption that growing up in the countryside automatically increases our connection to nature, and yet the study also shows that na

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/socioeconomics-shape-childrens-connection-nature-more-where-they-live - 2026-05-17

By injecting a solution of nanoparticles around the heart, a temporary heart stimulator self-assembles, which can correct heart arrhythmia in emergency situations with the help of an external power source. After treatment, the electrode spontaneously disappears from the body. The study was conducted on animals. Arrhythmia occurs when there are disturbances in the heart’s electrical signals, causin

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/injectable-heart-stimulator-emergency-situations-1 - 2026-05-17

It takes a long time, up to several decades, before the benefits of organic farming take full effect on land that was previously cultivated conventionally, a new study from Lund University suggests. After thirty years, the plant species richness around the cultivated crop had doubled on organic farms compared to conventional farms. It is well known that organic farming benefits biodiversity and ca

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/organic-farms-had-doubled-plant-diversity-only-over-time - 2026-05-17

A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has discovered a small planet that displays peculiar orbital motion. The shimmying planet, located 455 light-years from Earth, shows that planetary systems can be considerably more complex than researchers have previously thought. The newly discovered planet TOI-1408c has a mass equivalent to eight Earths and circles very close to a larger planet, t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-discover-space-oddity-exoplanet-moving-mysterious-ways - 2026-05-17

Sociologist Lisa Flower, biologist Øystein Opedal, economic historian Ingrid van Dijk and linguist Karolin Obert have received the prestigious grant from the EU. Their research focuses on video links in court cases, plant adaptation to pollinators, health inequalities over time, and language change in hunter-gatherer societies as they move around. The ERC Starting Grant is intended for early-caree

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/four-researchers-lund-university-receive-erc-starting-grant - 2026-05-17

Donald Trump’s background in professional wrestling paved the way for his political career. By using the wrestling concept “kayfabe” – the art of making staged events seem real – Trump embodies the message that politics was always fake, while masquerading as authentic. This has tapped into an already existing disillusionment with the American political system. It can also explain why playing the v

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-trump-turned-elections-wrestling-match - 2026-05-17

There were no differences in quality of life, symptoms, hospital admissions or mortality between a group of patients with pulmonary disease and low oxygen levels in the blood that received oxygen therapy at home for 24 hours a day, and a group that received the same therapy for 15 hours a day, according to a study from Lund University in Sweden. “This has considerable significance for patients wit

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/no-benefits-24-hour-compared-15-hour-oxygen-therapy - 2026-05-17

Symptoms for patients with the gastrointestinal disease IBS improved as much by eating less sugar and starch as for those who followed FODMAP – the diet currently recommended to patients. The results, presented in a new study from Lund University in Sweden, also show that weight loss is greater and sugar cravings are reduced among those who follow the starch and sucrose-reduced diet. Bodil Ohlsson

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cutting-out-sugar-and-starch-effective-ibs-current-recommendations - 2026-05-17