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Lunds universitet och FN:s universitet för vatten, miljö och hälsa etablerar en gemensam hubb med fokus på vatten. Satsningen ska stärka Lunds universitets koppling till FN, men också erbjuda ett unikt FN-spår för studenter. Den nya hubben går under namnet Water in a changing environment – WICE. Satsningen ska pågå i fem år för att sedan utvärderas, men tanken är att hubben ska bli permanent. För

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitet-i-nytt-fn-samarbete-om-vatten - 2025-10-25

Nyligen lyckades ett forskarlag avslöja hur en skånsk pilgrimsfalk dödade en flyttande kustpipare på 3 000 meters höjd. Det är första gången så högtflygande rovfågeljakt bekräftas. Upptäckten hjälper forskarna att förstå varför flyttfåglar ofta väljer att flyga extremt högt. En varm vårdag i slutet av maj gick den till attack. Kustpiparen som var på väg mot sina sibiriska häckningsområden hade tro

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/pilgrimsfalk-dodade-flyttfagel-pa-3-000-meters-hojd - 2025-10-25

Naturgeografen Alex Vermeulen, som leder arbetet med ICOS kolportal, har varit redaktör för en ny publikation om växthusgasflöden som fått stort internationellt genomslag. Nyligen presenterades den under FN:s klimattoppmöte i Baku. Alex, ni har jobbat med Greenhouse Gas Bulletin även i år. Hur ser resultaten ut?– Koncentrationerna av alla större växthusgaser fortsätter att öka och har nått rekordn

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/lundaforskare-hoppas-pa-gehor-dyster-rapport-om-vaxthusgaser - 2025-10-25

Docent Lennart Jönsson tilldelas Kemiska Föreningen i Lunds Blomstrandpris 2024. Han får utmärkelsen för ”sitt enastående arbete inom organisk kemi och sin dedikation till undervisning och folkbildning i kemi”. Jönsson har genom sitt engagemang för att främja vetenskaplig nyfikenhet och kritiskt tänkande blivit en förebild för flera generationer av kemister. Han är välkänd för sina engagerande och

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/pedagogisk-keminestor-far-prestigefyllt-pris - 2025-10-25

Rektor Torbjörn von Schantz har beslutat om att tilldela Lunds universitets silvermedalj till Patrick Amsellem, museichef vid Skissernas Museum, Per Karsten, museichef vid Historiska museet och Margot Wallström, fd styrelseordförande vid Lunds universitet, numera utrikesminister. Priset delas ut i samband med Lund universitets årshögtid 25 januari. Motiveringarna lyder: Margot Wallström: Margot Wa

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/tre-far-lunds-universitets-silvermedalj-2019 - 2025-10-25

The most common form of childhood cancer is acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, in cooperation with Karolinska Institutet, SciLifeLab and the University of Cambridge, have now carried out the most extensive analysis to date of ALL at the protein level, by studying the activity in over 8 000 genes and proteins. The results show aberrant folding in the DNA

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/first-major-study-proteins-patients-acute-lymphoblastic-leukaemia - 2025-10-25

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 - 2025-10-25

Indian women are younger and leaner than Swedish women when they develop gestational diabetes, a new study from Lund University shows. The researchers also found a gene that increases the risk of gestational diabetes in Swedish women, but which, on the contrary, turned out to have a protective effect in Indian women. Gestational diabetes is characterized by impaired insulin production and insulin

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gestational-diabetes-india-and-sweden - 2025-10-25

After a series of studies, researchers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues in Italy, have shown that not only one part, but most parts of the brain can be involved in processing the signals that arise from touch. The results open the way for a new approach to how the brain’s network of neurons processes information, and thereby the mechanisms by which the brain works. The resear

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-view-mechanisms-how-brain-works - 2025-10-25

The loss of animals, often due to unregulated or illegal hunting, has consequences for the carbon storage capacity of forests, yet this link is rarely mentioned in high-level climate policy discussions, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Many wildlife species play a key role in dispersing the seeds of tropical trees, particularly la

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hunting-jeopardizes-forest-carbon-storage-yet-overlooked-climate-mitigation-efforts - 2025-10-25

The UN Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) global assessment on nature highlights that one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. Dr. Mine Islar, one of the lead athors of the report, and senior lecturer and researcher at Lund University, explains the significance of the report’s findings. Why is this report importa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lead-author-ipbes-global-assessment-loss-biodiversity-crucial-climate-change - 2025-10-25

During a brief visit to Sweden, the renowned US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg received a jubilee honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Law in a formal ceremony in Stockholm. As the honoured guest did not have the opportunity to travel to Lund, the ceremony was held at the Svea Court of Appeal in Stockholm. The ceremony was followed by a conversation about Justice Ginsburg’s career, in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ruth-bader-ginsburg-receives-jubilee-honorary-doctorate - 2025-10-25

In recent years, it has become increasingly clear to researchers that the protein galectin-3 is involved in inflammatory diseases in the brain. A study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden now shows the de facto key role played by the protein in Alzheimer’s disease. When the researchers shut off the gene that produces this protein in mice, the amount of Alzheimer’s plaque and the inflam

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-block-protein-plays-key-role-alzheimers-disease - 2025-10-25

A European consortium, led from Lund University, is to receive SEK 50 million from the EU for research which is to develop our understanding of the functional mechanisms of the brain. The research project, called INTUITIVE, is one of the Innovative Training Networks within the framework of Horizon 2020. The aim of the project is to develop user interfaces based on touch that feel more intuitive th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/additional-sek-50-million-research-brains-mechanisms - 2025-10-25

The greatest threat to biodiversity today is different species losing their habitats. To reverse this trend will require action on many societal levels, and there are simple things you can do in your own garden to help, according to Lund University researchers Anna Persson and Caroline Isaksson. In many countries, factors such as large-scale agriculture and forestry, pesticides and paved urban are

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gardening-tips-five-easy-ways-contribute-biodiversity - 2025-10-25

Optic fiber broadband expansion could be reducing companies’ performance and turnover, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. The explanation proposed by the researchers is that the internet and smartphones are a distraction that reduces employee productivity, and blurs lines between personal and work-related internet use. The conclusion should be interpreted with caution, howeve

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/super-fast-broadband-may-have-negative-side-effects-companies - 2025-10-25

In a new study, Lund University economic historian Erik Bengtsson debunks the myth that Sweden was destined to become a social democratic country. Instead, he argues that it was actually against all odds, as Sweden in the early 1900s was one of the western world’s most unequal countries – and the least democratic in western Europe. Has Sweden always flown the flag for equality and welfare? No, tha

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-sweden-went-least-democratic-welfare-state - 2025-10-25

Researcher Louise Brunkwall at Lund University explains how three risk factors are involved in obesity. Louise Brunkwall recently defended her PhD thesis Obesity; with a focus on diet quality and gut microbiota. In this clip, she discusses how the three known risk factors for obesity interplay to determine your risk: Contact:Louise Brunkwalllouise [dot] brunkwall [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (louise

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-three-risk-factors-behind-obesity - 2025-10-25

Lund University has once again been ranked as the number one university in Sweden and 92nd in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2020. With 26 000 internationally recognised universities in the world, this ranking reinforces Lund University’s place in the global top tier of higher education, among 0.4% of the world’s universities.The QS World University Rankings 2020 rank the world’s to

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lu-swedens-top-ranked-university-qs-world-university-rankings-2020 - 2025-10-25

Researchers have shown for the first time that an animal uses different directional sensors to achieve the highest possible navigational precision in different conditions. When the sun is high, dung beetles navigate using the wind. The discovery of the dung beetles’ wind compass and how it complements the sun compass was made by an international research team comprising biologists from Sweden and

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/dung-beetles-use-wind-compass-when-sun-high - 2025-10-25