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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The brain has its own cleaning system that removes harmful substances while we sleep and protects it from diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. Neuroscientists at Lund University in Sweden have now imaged the cleaning system in 3D, indicating that it is substantially more developed than previously thought. Click "Show

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-cleaning-system-brain-captured-3d-footage - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a unique project, researchers from Lund University in Sweden, together with universities in South Africa, the Netherlands and the USA, will for the first time systematise large amounts of historical data from the Dutch East India Company’s colonisation of South Africa. Their aim: to find out when and how colonial p

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/economic-historians-seeking-roots-south-africas-inequality - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. It has long been known that the choice of shoe, surface and type of sport can all be contributing factors when someone suffers an anterior cruciate ligament rupture. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now observed that genes also play a decisive role. By analysing data from the Swedish Twin Register along w

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/genes-play-role-common-knee-injury - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have recorded coughs resolved at high temporal resolution - 8,000 images per second - and high detection sensitivity, using laser light scattering. This enabled them to count the number of droplets as well as measure their speed with high accuracy. The preliminary results show

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-85-cough-droplets-blocked-surgical-mask-experiment-shows - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In order to study how the brain functions and to develop new technologies for treating neurological diseases, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed tissue-friendly and flexible microelectrodes that are roughly one tenth as thick as a strand of hair. Three of the doctoral students in the research team

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/three-row-hat-trick-brain-electrodes - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a recent study, researchers from Imperial College London developed a model to assess the effect of different measures used to curb the spread of the coronavirus. However, the model had fundamental shortcomings and cannot be used to draw the published conclusions, claim Swedish researchers from Lund University, and

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/model-used-evaluate-lockdowns-was-flawed - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have now drawn an exciting conclusion regarding massive stars that can be observed in the outskirts of many spiral galaxies. These objects appear to be “runaway” stars that have been ejected to areas where no stars can form at all. Some ten years ago, the research community d

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/astronomers-find-explanation-mysterious-stars - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Christelle Prinz, professor of solid state physics, and Edouard Berrocal, researcher in combustion physics, will each receive EUR 150 000 to further develop research results deemed by the European Research Council funding body to have great innovative potential. Traces viruses in the body in a new way For several year

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prestigious-erc-grants-new-covid-test-and-spectrometer - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, in collaboration with colleagues in Dresden, Germany, have developed a way of combining a bone substitute and drugs to regenerate bone and heal severe fractures in the thigh or shin bone. The study, published in the research journal Science Advances, was conducted on rats, but

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-method-heals-skeletal-injuries-synthetic-bone - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Half of all young people treated for severe obesity have neuropsychiatric problems, according to a new study by researchers from Lund University and Gothenburg, Sweden, among others. Two thirds of the teens suffered from some type of mental health problem, as reported by themselves or their parents. Both obesity and m

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-study-shows-correlation-between-teen-obesity-and-mental-health-issues - 2026-11-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 highly

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/butterfly-wing-clap-explains-mystery-flight - 2026-11-01

Sweden’s industry uses about one third of the country’s entire energy consumption. How can industry convert to a better considered and sustainable circular economy? Researchers at Lund University are working closely with companies to find smarter solutions that focus on improving sustainability in materials recycling. We would like to have an electric car, solar cells on our roof or the latest mod

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/recycling-alpha-and-omega-sustainable-circular-economy - 2026-11-01

Simon Davidsson har tilldelats Statsvetenskapliga förbundets pris för bästa uppsats av yngre forskare presenterad vid förbundets årsmöte 2022. Davidsson tilldelas priset för uppsatsen " Testing Paths to Strong Parties in Western Europe or the Efficient Secret Shared. " Motiveringen lyder:    Davidssons uppsats är en noggrann undersökning av förklaringar till utvecklingen av partistyrka i västeurop

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/simon-davidsson-tilldelas-statsvetenskapliga-forbundets-pris - 2026-11-01

Isabel Bramsen har skrivit kapitlet ‘The web of relations shaping the Philippine peace talks’ i boken Relational Peace Practices redigerad av Anna Jarstad, Johanna Söderström och Malin Åkebo. Kapitlet undersöker samspelet mellan regeringen och Filippinernas kommunistiska parti (CPP) under fredssamtal och diskuterar detta i förhållande till det större nätet av relationer som formar fredssamtalen. B

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/bramsen-om-natet-av-relationer-som-formar-de-filippinska-fredssamtalen - 2026-11-01

Nu drar det ihop sig till Almedalsveckan 2023. Statsvetenskapliga institutionens forskare är på plats och medverkar i olika paneler och diskussioner. Torsdag 29 juni Israel vid vägs ände som liberaldemokratisk stat? Israel kantas av den värsta interna politiska krisen på årtionden efter att dess nytillträdda högerextrema regering försöker ta total politisk kontroll över rättsapparaten. Vilka polit

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/statsvetare-pa-almedalsveckan-2023 - 2026-11-01

Efter lång och trogen tjänst avtackades i torsdags Tomas Bergström, prefekt för Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2009–2017, som nu går i pension. Talare under vid tillställningen konstaterade att Statsvetenskapliga institutionen utvecklats otroligt mycket under åren och tack vare detta nu står väl rustad att möta framtida utmaningar. I detta har Tomas ledarskap spelat en stor roll för att modernis

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/tidigare-prefekt-tomas-bergstrom-uppmarksammas - 2026-11-01

Lisa Strömbom har samförfattat artikeln ”Abrahamavtalens implikationer för fred i Mellanöstern”, i senaste numret av Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift. Abrahamavtalen som undertecknades av Israel och fyra arabiska länder 2020 framställs ofta som en av Donald Trumps och Benjamin Netanyahus största utrikespolitiska framgångar. Artikeln problematiserar vilken typ av fred som Abrahamavtalen hittills har let

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/lisa-strombom-om-abrahamavtalens-implikationer-fred-i-mellanostern - 2026-11-01

Stina Melander, Julia Bahner och Oskar Krantz har publicerat artikeln “The Personal is Political – And Then What? Ideology, Representation, and Legitimacy in a Swedish Disability Organisation.” i Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. Abstrakt Bakgrund: Vem som kan eller inte kan göra anspråk på att representera andra medlemmar inom funktionshinderrörelsen har diskuterats i årtionden, främst

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/stina-melander-medforfattare-om-ideologi-representation-och-legitimitet-i-en-svensk - 2026-11-01

Lisa Strömbom har samförfattat artikeln ”The two-state impasse in Israel/Palestine – The EU caught between egalitarian norms and expansionist realpolitik”, i Frontiers in Political Science. I många år har internationella aktörer sett en tvåstatslösning baserad på demokratiska rättigheter för två folk i respektive stat som den ultimata lösningen för den israelisk-palestinska konflikten.  Detta står

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/strombom-om-eu-mellan-demokratiska-principer-och-expansionistiska-israeliska-ideal - 2026-11-01

Karin Aggestam och Linda Eitrem Holmgren har författat artikeln ”Kvinnor, fred och säkerhet i Mellanöstern och Nordafrika” som ingår i ett specialnummer i Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift. Läs artikeln här:  https://journals.lub.lu.se/st/article/view/25239/22259 Karin Aggestams hemsida:  https://www.svet.lu.se/karin-aggestam Linda Eitrem Holmgrens hemsida:  https://www.svet.lu.se/linda-eitrem-holmgren

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/aggestam-och-eitrem-holmgren-om-kvinnor-fred-och-sakerhet-i-mellanostern-och-nordafrika - 2026-11-01