Publicerad 22 december 2020 Anders Scherstén, Håkan Håkansson och Robin Gullstrand beundrar en tidigare bortglömd och mögelskadad Islandskarta från 1844, som nu har blivit restaurerad. Foto: Kennet Ruona 2016 påträffades en bortglömd arkivskatt i geologiska institutionens källare. Bland materialet fanns bland annat en unik Islandskarta från 1844 och en geologiskt heltäckande karta över Nya Zeeland

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/glomd-kartskatt-har-aterfatt-sin-forna-glans - 2025-07-07

Publicerad 7 januari 2021 En spiralgalax fångad på bild i det ultravioletta ljus som den aktuella studien handlar om. Galaxen, vid namn NGC 6744, ligger cirka 30 miljoner ljusår från Jorden. Foto: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Nu har forskare från Lunds universitet dragit en spännande slutsats angående massiva stjärnor som kan observeras i ytterområdena hos många spiralgalaxer. Dessa objekt verkar vara så kal

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/forskare-hittar-forklaring-pa-gatfulla-stjarnor - 2025-07-07

Publicerad 13 januari 2021 Clifford Woodward och Melissa Franklin. En folkbildande partikelfysiker med en rad världsupptäckter i forskarportföljen och en experimentell professor som utvecklat teoretiska modeller i gränslandet mellan kemi och fysik. Melissa Franklin och Clifford Woodward har utsetts till hedersdoktorer vid Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten vid Lunds universitet. Melissa Franklin, parti

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/ledande-partikelfysiker-och-banbrytande-kemist-nya-hedersdoktorer-i-naturvetenskap - 2025-07-07

Publicerad 20 januari 2021 Silverstreckad pärlemorfjäril. Foto: Per Henningsson. Fjärilarnas vingar är unikt stora och breda i förhållande till resten av kroppen jämfört med vingarna hos andra flygande insekter och hos fåglar. Nu har forskare vid Lunds universitet studerat aerodynamiken när fjärilarna flyger. Resultaten förklarar nyttan med den extrema vingformen och de flexibla vingarna och kan k

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/fjarilens-vingslag-overraskar-forskare - 2025-07-07

Publicerad 25 januari 2021 Sökandet efter den så kallade stabilitetsön fortsätter. Redan i slutet av 1960-talet lanserades teorier om en möjlig förekomst av supertunga grundämnen. Deras mest långlivade atomkärnor skulle kunna ge upphov till en så kallad ”stabilitetsö” långt bortom grundämnet uran. Men nu visar en studie, som letts av kärnfysiker vid Lunds universitet, att ett 50 år gammalt kärnfys

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/karnfysikalisk-seglats-mot-mytomspunnen-o - 2025-07-07

Publicerad 26 januari 2021 Forskarna har upptäckt individuella karaktärsdrag hos svampar när de letar föda. Fotot visar ett utsnitt av en "hinderbana" tillverkad i silikonpolymer. Foto: Kristin Aleklett Kadish. Forskare vid Lunds universitet har upptäckt hur svampar besitter individuella karaktärsdrag, och hur deras hyfer (enskilda svamptrådar i jorden) beter sig på olika sätt när de utforskar och

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/militarer-ormar-och-maratonlopare-i-svamparnas-varld - 2025-07-07

Published 13 January 2021 Clifford Woodward and Melissa Franklin. A particle physicist involved in popular education and who made a number of global discoveries in her research portfolio and a professor of theoretical physical chemistry who has developed theoretical models in the area straddling chemistry and physics. Melissa Franklin and Clifford Woodward have been appointed honorary doctors at t

https://www.science.lu.se/article/leading-particle-physicist-and-pioneering-chemist-named-new-honorary-doctors-science - 2025-07-07

Published 20 January 2021 Silver-washed fritillary butterfly. Photo: Per Henningson. 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 hi

https://www.science.lu.se/article/butterfly-wing-clap-explains-mystery-flight - 2025-07-07

Published 26 January 2021 Photo: Unsplash. 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 physics manifesto must now be revised.

https://www.science.lu.se/article/nuclear-physicists-voyage-towards-mythical-island - 2025-07-07

Published 8 February 2021 Researchers have discovered individual traits in fungi in their hunt for food. Maze-like structure made of silicone. Photo: Kristin Aleklett Kadish. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered the individual traits of fungi, and how their hyphae – that is, the fungal threads that grow in soil - behave very differently as they navigate through the earth’s micr

https://www.science.lu.se/article/soldiers-snakes-and-marathon-runners-hidden-world-fungi - 2025-07-07

Published 8 February 2021 Photo: Charlie Cornwallis. The world's largest bird, the ostrich, has problems reproducing when the temperature deviates by 5 degrees or more from the ideal temperature of 20 °C. The research, from Lund University, is published in Nature Communications. The results show that the females lay up to 40 percent fewer eggs if the temperature has fluctuated in the days before l

https://www.science.lu.se/article/ostriches-challenged-temperature-fluctuations - 2025-07-07

Published 18 February 2021 A spruce bark beetle. Photo: Erling Jirle. For the first time, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has mapped out exactly what happens when spruce bark beetles use their sense of smell to find trees and partners to reproduce with. The hope is that the results will lead to better pest control and protection of the forest in the future. The Eurasian spruce bar

https://www.science.lu.se/article/breakthrough-fight-against-spruce-bark-beetles - 2025-07-07

Published 4 March 2021 Illustration: Don Dixon (copyright/used with permission). A Swedish-Danish research team is now launching a new theory of the process that led to the formation of Earth. Through advanced analyses of meteorites, astronomers can determine that Tellus went from being a baby planet made of ice and carbon to reaching its current size thanks to millimetre-sized pebbles. The study

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-study-shows-earth-was-formed-millimetre-sized-pebbles-over-short-period - 2025-07-07

Published 4 March 2021 Image: Pixabay. Sixty-six million years ago, a gigantic celestial body crashed to Earth on the Yucatán peninsula, forming a crater 200 kilometres across. The impact plunged Earth into darkness and killed off the dinosaurs. Now, researchers from Lund University in Sweden, among others, are analysing drill cores from the crater to reconstruct in detail what happened on Earth d

https://www.science.lu.se/article/drill-cores-mexican-crater-provide-new-knowledge-about-dinosaurs-extinction - 2025-07-07

Published 15 March 2021 Roman Pasechnik For 50 years, the world of research has been searching eagerly for the so-called Odderon particle – entirely fruitlessly. However, a Swedish-Hungarian research team has managed to discover the mythical particle with the help of extensive data analyses. In 1973, two French particle physicists were sitting in a basement amazed. According to their calculations,

https://www.science.lu.se/article/particle-physics-detective-work-behind-solution-50-year-old-riddle - 2025-07-07

Published 15 March 2021 Photo: Wikimedia. Long life is common among bird parents that get help with childcare. This finding comes from researchers at the universities of Lund and Oxford who reviewed data from more than 9,000 studies. Being a parent can be tough. In general, animals that care for many offspring die young, at least in species where parents are not helped by others. However, in some

https://www.science.lu.se/article/bird-parents-receive-help-live-longer - 2025-07-07

Published 23 March 2021 Illustration: Pixabay. Volcano or meteorite? Over the past 100 years, two different theories have been put forward to explain the formation of Lake Mien. However, researchers from Lund University can now definitively state in a new study that the lake in Småland was formed by a gigantic celestial object. It was long thought that the circular Lake Mien in southern Småland wa

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-study-shows-lake-mien-was-formed-meteoric-impact - 2025-07-07

Published 16 April 2021 Coal tit. Photo: Andreas Nord. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered that bird blood produces more heat in winter, when it is colder, than in autumn. The secret lies in the energy factories of cells, the mitochondria. Mammals have no mitochondria in their red blood cells, but birds do, and according to the research team from Lund and Glasgow this means th

https://www.science.lu.se/article/birds-blood-functions-heating-system-winter - 2025-07-07

Published 28 April 2021 Donatas Zigmantas. A research team at Lund University in Sweden has succeeded in uncovering the fundamental properties of plexcitons, which were previously shrouded in mystery. Now the researchers can show how the plexcitons function and suggest how they could be used in potential applications in the future. A plasmon is a quasiparticle that stems from quantisation of oscil

https://www.science.lu.se/article/lund-researchers-solve-nano-mystery-long-run-could-help-world-achieve-sustainable-development-goals - 2025-07-07

Published 5 May 2021 Wolfgang Knorr, a researcher at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, is one of three authors of a high-profile climate article recently published in The Conversation. The article, about our future carbon footprint, has received widespread coverage after being shared on Twitter by Greta Thunberg. What prompted you to write the article in The Conversation?

https://www.science.lu.se/article/researcher-was-given-helping-hand-greta-thunberg - 2025-07-07