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The new findings could enable larger and more complicated circuits - crucial to unlocking the enormous computational power of quantum computers. Photo: Unsplash. By utilising quantum mechanics, a quantum computer can solve computational problems that today's supercomputers cannot. But there are problems. As the circuits in quantum computers get bigger, they become more difficult to control. Now re

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/new-way-designing-circuits-could-lead-large-scale-quantum-computers - 2025-09-21

Tavakoli's findings show that minor detector imperfections can significantly impact steering tests, but a new method adapts for these flaws based on experimental control, allowing analysis without assuming perfect detectors. Illustration: Armin Tavakoli. Entanglement, once dismissed by Einstein as an impossible phenomenon but later shown to be possible by Nobel Prize-winning physicists, continues

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/detecting-spooky-action-distance-imperfect-detectors - 2025-09-21

Computer simulation of the formation of galaxies. Photo: The AGORA Collaboration. 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 Lund University and Seoul National University, has spent hundreds of millions of computer hours over

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/new-super-simulation-how-galaxies-are-formed - 2025-09-21

Heiner Linke and Vanya Darakchieva. Photograph. Vanya Darakchieva, Professor of Semiconductor Materials, and Heiner Linke, Professor of Nanophysics, have been named Wallenberg Scholars, a programme funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to support excellent basic research, primarily in medicine, engineering and natural sciences. Anne L'Huillier, Kimberly Dick Thelander and Stephanie Re

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/two-physicists-become-new-wallenberg-scholars - 2025-09-21

After climate change, biodiversity loss is the biggest environmental challenge facing the world today. The loss of plant and animal species also means a loss of the resources that humans obtain from well-functioning ecosystems. At Lund University, a project is underway in which researchers are studying how work to counteract these losses is carried out with so-called green infrastructure. In today

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/green-infrastructure-planning-and-designing-functioning-nature - 2025-09-21

The researchers think support should be directed towards grazing land that needs protection the most. Photo: Lovisa Nilsson. Sweden does not need more cattle to save natural grazing land with high biodiversity. This is the conclusion of a new report by researchers at Lund University in Sweden. What is needed instead, according to the researchers, are economic incentives that make natural grazing p

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/profitability-not-more-cattle-needed-save-natural-grazing-land - 2025-09-21

Wood anemones may get new competitors. Photo: Hanna Gamdrup. In recent decades, the climate in Sweden has become about two degrees warmer on average and this year we have seen an unprecedentedly mild winter and early spring. How is nature responding – animals, insects, plants – to an increasingly mild climate? Researchers in Lund can provide the answer. Among other things, a new study shows that g

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/unusually-early-spring-how-nature-sweden-responding-increasingly-warm-climate - 2025-09-21

We appreciate your participation in the online conference, which was a very successful joining of about 100 participants. April 23 and 24 were two very rewarding days, filled with interesting sessions, poster presentations, office yoga, group discussions, as well as fruitful conversations and sharing of expertise. The event allowed for interesting discussions among researchers and stakeholders acr

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/thank-you-participating-cecs-online-science-says-conference-and-becc-merge-spring-meeting - 2025-09-21

The regional flora has dramatically changed the last centuries. Photo: Kristine Cinate, Unsplash A study from Lund University indicates that the flora of Skåne in southern Sweden changed drastically throughout the 1900s and up to the present day. The greatest decline in species diversity can be seen in forested areas in the northern and central parts of Skåne. “I was surprised that climate change

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/dramatic-changes-regional-flora - 2025-09-21

The new collaboration will strengthen the national climate and biodiversity research. Photo by Ars Buchatski on Unsplash. The graduate research schools ClimBEco and the Bolin Centre Climate Research School (CRS) have recently initiated a collaboration with multiple climate-focused intentions. The joint activities will strengthen the course curriculum and network possibilities for the respective Ph

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-strengthens-climate-and-biodiversity-research - 2025-09-21

Photo: Unsplash A unique study has analyzed in detail how EU agricultural subsidies flow down to the local level. The new data show that most income support payments go to intensively farmed regions already above median EU income, while climate-friendly and biodiverse farming regions, as well as poorer regions, are insufficiently funded. Consequently, the majority of payments are going to the regi

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/revealed-how-billions-eu-farming-subsidies-are-being-misspent - 2025-09-21

Image: Jorchr, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia Population density, and not the proportion of green spaces, has the biggest impact on species richness of pollinators in residential areas. This is the result of a study from Lund University in Sweden of gardens and residential courtyards in and around Malmö, Sweden. The result surprised the researchers, who had expected that the vegetation cover would be mor

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/high-human-population-density-negative-pollinators - 2025-09-21

Wooden barrel with parts of the sturgeon (in orange) Photo: Brett Seymour Researchers at Lund University in Sweden can now reveal what the Danish King Hans had planned to offer when laying claim to the Swedish throne in 1495: a two-metre-long Atlantic sturgeon. The well-preserved fish remains were found in a wreck on the bottom of the Baltic Sea last year, and species identification was made possi

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/atlantic-sturgeon-kings-pantry-unique-discovery-baltic-sea-wreck-1495 - 2025-09-21

Johanna Alkan Olsson talking to professionals during last years programme on sustainable cities. Photo: Kenneth Ruona. CEC is one of the actors behind a new international education programme with the purpose to strengthen innovation in the public sector and support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. The target group is public service professionals in Indonesia and Turkey, and it is now open fo

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-provides-education-co-design-and-inclusive-public-environments - 2025-09-21

Forest in Morzine, France. Photo by Guy Bowden on Unsplash. The climate crisis has received less media coverage during the corona pandemic despite that many think the climate challenges demand equally urgent attention. During the coming two weeks the United Nations gather the world in the Climate Dialogues 2020 “to increase the momentum for greater climate ambition” in an online format. Our climat

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/global-climate-dialogues-boost-climate-work - 2025-09-21

Japanese knotweed, one of the most damaging invasive plants in Europe. Photo: Michael Gasperl/Wikipedia (GFDL). Researchers at the Pufendorf Institute are working together in a Theme about Invasive Alien Plants, and are interested in finding out how the public, as well as experts, regard different plants in private gardens as well as in public spaces. Why are certain plants defined as more desirab

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/researchers-want-know-how-public-perceive-invasive-alien-plants - 2025-09-21

Micro-XRF mapping of trace elements in the foraminifera shell. Photo: Ni et al., 2020. How can previous warm periods in the ocean help us better understand the ongoing climate change? PhD student Sha Ni defends her dissertation at CEC this week with fossil findings that can improve the knowledge of the current global warming. Congratulations on your dissertation coming up! How would you describe y

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/past-ocean-conditions-give-clues-marine-environmental-changes - 2025-09-21

CEC researchers conclude that forests and forestry play key roles for climate change mitigation. Photo by Luca Bravo on Unsplash. The forest investigation recently submitted to the Swedish government gives suggestions on creating synergies between international and national commitments on biodiversity and a growing circular bioeconomy. A new report by CEC researchers concludes that forests and for

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/forestry-plays-key-role-swedens-climate-change-mitigation - 2025-09-21

CEC starts 2021 with a new name, a new Director, and a new leadership organisation. Yet, CEC will continue its work with research, education and collaboration, across subject boundaries, to promote sustainable development. The new organisation with separate Director and Chair of the Board will strengthen CEC. The Director will be supported by four Assistant Directors focusing on undergraduate educ

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-year-new-name-new-director-and-new-organisation-cec - 2025-09-21

2020 will be remembered as the year when the coronavirus paralysed the world. At the same time, the negative effect of climate change became increasingly apparent, and the pleas to listen to the scientist and the calls for action became even more urgent. What changes for the climate do researchers want to see in 2021? Researchers in climate and sustainability at Lund University list their hopes an

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-researchers-wish-list-2021 - 2025-09-21