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Stem cell researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new research model of the early embryonic brain. The aim of the model is to study the very earliest stages of brain to understand how different regions in the brain are formed during embryonic development. With this new insight, researchers hope to be able to produce different types of neural cells for the treatment of neurologica

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-method-provides-unique-insight-development-human-brain - 2026-07-13

Anne-Lise Viotti and Armin Tavakoli will each receive SEK 15 million grants as part of the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research’s investment in Future Research Leaders. For the ninth time, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) has appointed the Research Leaders of the Future. A total of 213 applications were received, of which 16 were selected and two of these were from Lund Uni

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sek-30-million-awarded-research-ultrashort-laser-pulses-and-quantum-mechanics - 2026-07-13

How do we create a safe environment in which humans and robots can collaborate on handling hazardous materials? What do those working in the industry need to know about sustainable production processes, re-use and critical raw materials? Companies need to up-skill their employees to have competences for the fourth industrial revolution, industry 4.0, with new technologies mainly in automation, the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/upskilling-swedens-engineers-through-unique-course-package - 2026-07-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In order to avoid water conflicts and to stimulate food production in sub-Saharan Africa, large-scale land acquisition should be regulated and focus on food production. These are the conclusions of a new doctoral thesis from Lund University in Sweden. Emma Johansson’s thesis investigates how land use is affected by la

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/large-scale-land-acquisition-africa-affects-farmers-ability-produce-their-own-food - 2026-07-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Birds of the species Parus Major (great tit) living in an urban environment are at greater risk of dying young than great tits living outside cities. Research results from Lund University in Sweden show that urban great tits have shorter telomeres than others of their own species living in rural areas. According to th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/urban-bird-species-risk-dying-prematurely-due-stress - 2026-07-13

Astronomers at Lund University in Sweden have found a group of stars in the Milky Way disk, that are most likely remnants from an unknown baby galaxy that was swallowed by the Milky Way over 10 billion years ago. Nothing like it has been discovered in the galaxy disk before. After the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, space was a veritable Wild West. Stars formed inside huge gas clouds that collide

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-find-ten-billion-year-old-ghost-stars-swallowed-galaxy - 2026-07-13

The robot at the hospital somewhere in Sweden is connected and ready to operate. The surgeon, who is in another country, controls the advanced surgery. This is the future: wireless surgery via the internet. But will we be able to trust the speed and security of this wireless connection through the cloud?It should work, with the help of the faster 5G technology and by bringing the cloud closer to t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fast-and-secure-computer-power-when-needed - 2026-07-13

Feng Zhang, professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard visited Lund University at the beginning of March to deliver the annual honorary lecture organised by the Royal Physiographic and Mendelian Societies in Lund.   Listen to the interview and hear more about why Feng Zhang wants to introduce a moratorium on genetically-modified babies and where Malin Parmar hopes her stem cell research w

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/honorary-lecturer-feng-zhang-crispr-research-treasure-hunt-nature - 2026-07-13

The metal recycling industry is growing, not least due to the use of metals in green energy electronic components. Researchers at Lund University have examined the inhaled air of workers at 13 recycling companies in Sweden. Among the results, high levels of lead in air and elevated levels of multiple metals were detected in the blood of those who work in recycling. Different forms of metals are in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/harmful-exposure-metal-recycling - 2026-07-13

Feeling unmotivated to carve another jack-o’-lantern out of a slimy pumpkin? As luck would have it, at least you don’t have to struggle with a rock-hard turnip. The pumpkin’s status as the main symbol of Halloween is actually somewhat of an historical coincidence. Ethnologist Katarzyna Herd explains why. Two-hundred tonnes. According to SVT Nyheter, this is how much pumpkin was transported from Le

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/root-vegetable-could-have-replaced-halloween-pumpkins - 2026-07-13

A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that migratory birds fly at peak efficiency at a medium pace – precisely the speed they use during their long journeys across the continents. Now, at the end of the summer, when the thrush nightingales leave Europe for southern Africa, they do not fly at full speed. Instead they maintain an even pace – and according to a new study from Lund Universi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-pinpoint-exact-pace-helps-nightingales-long-journey - 2026-07-13

Can AI think? The short answer is no, at least not in the way humans think. AI does not have incentives, opinions, or empathy. Even two-year-olds possess something that our artificial systems lack – the capacity to think in terms of cause and effect, according to Peter Gärdenfors, professor of Cognitive Science at Lund University. Since ChatGPT was introduced to great fanfare in 2022, the debate a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ai-lacks-common-sense-why-programs-cannot-think - 2026-07-13

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/spectacular-discoveries-during-excavation-unique-flagship-gribshunden - 2026-07-13

How much water do we need to drink to stay healthy? How do different diets affect our metabolism? Studies of various hormones in the body are providing diabetes researchers with new answers to these questions. The goal is to develop individualized treatments and dietary recommendations that could lower the risk of developing obesity and diseases such as type 2 diabetes. The endocrine system and th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/learning-more-about-endocrine-system-could-lead-fewer-cases-type-2-diabetes-and-obesity - 2026-07-13

The large-eyed bristle worm Vanadis has long been of interest to the world’s vision researchers. But the worm has been difficult to study since it lives in the open sea and is active at night. Now, a research team has succeeded in locating an Italian worm colony and is able to confirm that the worm has completely unique vision. Bristle worms are a group of annelid worms that mostly live in the sea

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/marine-worm-outstanding-vision-fascinates-researchers - 2026-07-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Up to now, there has been uncertainty over whether microplastics from playgrounds is released into watercourses. A detailed study of a school playground in Lomma, Sweden, now clearly shows that microplastic is released into a nearby river. The soft rubber surfacing intended to protect our children is also threatening

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/playground-found-release-microplastic-nearby-river - 2026-07-13

Smokers have a lower risk of developing prostate cancer, but a higher risk of dying from the disease, according to a large population study led by Lund University in Sweden. The researchers followed more than 350 000 people over several decades, and the results are now published in European Urology. It is well known that smokers have an increased risk of developing various cancers, but there have

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/smoking-worsens-prognosis-men-prostate-cancer - 2026-07-13

How does migration and globalisation shape the lives of individuals in various countries and how does it affect the children of immigrants in terms of integration, identity, and cultural expressions? Do they themselves use the word integration? These questions occupy sociologist Dalia Abdelhady who is about to conclude a study of three populations in the US, in France and in Germany, based on thei

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/other-sides-story-how-immigrants-children-experience-life - 2026-07-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Geologist Birger Schmitz from Lund University in Sweden has found the fossil of an extinct meteorite that collided with Earth about 470 million years ago. The finding is the first of its kind and of a type of meteorite that no longer falls on Earth. The discovery, which could lead to new knowledge about our solar syst

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/extinct-meteorite-changes-our-understanding-solar-system - 2026-07-13

Astronomers can use supercomputers to simulate the formation of galaxies from the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago to the present day. But there are a number of sources of error. An international research team, led by researchers in Lund, has spent a hundred million computer hours over eight years trying to correct these. The last decade has seen major advances in computer simulations that can real

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-insights-how-galaxies-are-formed - 2026-07-13