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Two researchers at Lund University in Sweden have been awarded almost EUR 5 million in total from the European Research Council. One of the research projects focuses on the early growth of diatoms in the ocean 250 million years ago, and the subsequent global effects of the algae growth. The other grant will go towards research on the automatic control necessary to create fossil-free cities. Daniel

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-researchers-awarded-prestigious-erc-grants - 2025-10-03

Astronomers have discovered what appears to be the remnants of a planet orbiting a dead star in a disc of debris formed from destroyed planets. The planetary fragment could offer clues into the fate of our own Solar System in the far-off future. According to a new study published in Science, researchers have found a small celestial body, a so-called planetesimal, orbiting a white dwarf approximate

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/remains-planet-found-orbiting-dead-star - 2025-10-03

With the increasing threat of antibiotic resistance, there is a growing need for new treatment strategies against life threatening bacterial infections. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden and the University of Copenhagen may have identified such an alternative treatment for bacterial meningitis, a serious infection that can lead to sepsis. The study is published in Nature Communications. See

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-non-antibiotic-strategy-treatment-bacterial-meningitis - 2025-10-03

Living in a community with access to clean water and functioning sanitation is a basic requirement for people’s good health. In Kazakhstan in Central Asia, people cannot depend on a reliable water supply and many are at risk of contracting serious infectious diseases. However, the country now wants to focus on improving public health and has turned to Lund University for help. Approximately 2.1 bi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/access-clean-water-not-option-everyone-lund-researchers-are-helping-rural-areas-kazakhstan - 2025-10-03

The energy sector is one of the sectors that need to undergo both rapid and far-reaching transformation to limit the effects of climate change. What is the significance of basic research, which investigates new theories and new approaches, in driving development? Solar energy has great potential to become one of our most important energy sources. The energy in the sun’s rays corresponds to more th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-make-solar-energy-more-efficient - 2025-10-03

Living forests with diverse plants and animals, forests where you can hike, hunt or pick berries and mushrooms – will they still be there when the pressure on forestry production increases? Is it possible to increase production in a sustainable way, without reducing the possibility of achieving environmental and sustainability goals? Great hopes are being placed in the forest to provide the raw ma

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/forest-under-strain-many-directions - 2025-10-03

A team of former Lund University students have developed a smart plant wall, that can be monitored via an app and therefore minimizes the amount of maintenance needed. The smart wall measures things like indoor temperature, humidity and water levels to make sure the plants are thriving - and therefore improving the indoor environment. Erik Wilson, a Lund University Master’s student at the time, wa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-lund-university-students-develop-smart-living-plant-wall - 2025-10-03

Currently, it can take weeks and even months to produce results on how the future climate could affect agriculture. Now, researchers at Lund University are looking to change this and have produced simplified models, so-called emulators, to make it simpler – and above all, faster – to link vegetation, finance and climate models. In their project, Stefan Olin, researcher at the Department of Physica

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-much-land-do-we-need-produce-enough-food-bioenergy-and-forest-new-digital-technology-provides - 2025-10-03

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have together with American colleagues studied deceased patients who were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or frontotemporal dementia. They observed a correlation between certain proteins and dementia sufferers’ tendency to commit criminal acts. “This study is unique in that we studied deceased patients, something that means we are 100 per cent sure of th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/abnormal-proteins-correlate-criminal-behaviour-dementia - 2025-10-03

Congratulations to Salma Kikhia, a student at the Master’s programme in Public Health at Lund University, who will be awarded the title Global Swede at a ceremony at the Swedish Institute in May. Salma Kikhia, from Syria, is one of 26 international students in Sweden that will be awarded the prestigious title of Global Swede 2019 at a ceremony on 21 May.Maria Björkqvist, vice dean at the Faculty o

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lu-student-named-global-swede-2019 - 2025-10-03

A new study confirms that a simple blood test can reveal whether there is accelerating nerve cell damage in the brain. The researchers analysed neurofilament light protein (NFL) in blood samples from patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Recently published in JAMA Neurology, the study suggests that the NFL concentration in the blood could be able to indicate if a drug actually affects the loss of ner

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/more-evidence-blood-tests-can-detect-risk-alzheimers - 2025-10-03

Professor Mats E. Eriksson of Lund University in Sweden is now publishing his second book in the somewhat unusual subject combination of geological fossils and heavy metal music. Researching microscopic fossils and attempting to reconstruct several hundred million-year-old ecosystems is Mats E. Eriksson’s day job as a professor of geology at Lund University in Sweden. In his spare time, however, h

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/geology-professor-releases-new-book-about-heavy-metal - 2025-10-03

In the past decade, knowledge of how lifestyle affects our genes, a research field called epigenetics, has grown exponentially. Researchers at Lund University have summarised the state of scientific knowledge within epigenetics linked to obesity and type 2 diabetes in a review article published in the scientific journal Cell Metabolism. Epigenetic mechanisms control the activity of different genes

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-lifestyle-affects-our-genes - 2025-10-03

En framväxande rörelse kämpar för att bevara renens vinterbeten. Samtidigt pågår en intensiv debatt om avvägningar inom skogsbruket och om landsbygdens framtid. Hållbarhetsforskaren David Harnesk forskar om sociala och politiska rörelser kring renskötseln och hur dessa påverkas av ekonomin, ekologin och klimatförändringarna. Även om bara en minoritet av samerna är renskötare så spelar renskötseln

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/historiska-processer-viktiga-nar-vinterbetesmarkernas-framtid-diskuteras - 2025-10-03

Det är inte den som blir föremål för ohövlighet som får sitt beteende påverkat allra mest, utan omgivningen. Det säger Kristoffer Holm som lagt fram en psykologiavhandling om ohövlighet på jobbet. Han menar att den digitala arbetsplatsen ställer frågan på sin spets: – Vi behöver de informella mötena för att missförstånd ska rätas ut och hårda ord mildras. Under de senaste två decennierna har omfat

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/okamratligt-beteende-drabbar-hart-inte-bara-den-utsatte - 2025-10-03

Medan den sociala tilliten i Sverige och i andra västeuropeiska länder ligger på en relativt stabil och hög nivå, så dalar den i USA. Hur kan man förklara detta? Ny forskning visar att den amerikanska trenden till stor del kan förklaras av minskat förtroende för de politiska institutionerna samt av erfarenhet från att ha varit arbetslös. ”Skulle du säga att man i allmänhet kan lita på de flesta

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/unik-studie-visar-varfor-amerikaner-tappar-fortroende-varandra - 2025-10-03

Efter ett långvarigt ekonomiskt krisläge står Libanon på ruinens brant. Valutan har förlorat stort i värde och människors besparingar har ätits upp. Krisen i landet utspelas även på det politiska och sociala planet. Trots detta fortsätter den korrupta eliten att styra landet, utan att straffas för sina missgärningar. Rola el-Husseini forskar på den politiska situationen i Libanon vid Centrum för M

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/kommer-den-libanesiska-staten-att-overleva-krisen - 2025-10-03

I en ny studie från Lunds och Göteborgs universitet har patienter intervjuats om deras upplevelser 10 år efter att ha genomgått fetmakirurgi. Sammanfattningsvis kan sägas att effekten på ätandet håller i sig medan andra problem, som exempelvis en skuldkänsla över att fortfarande inte vara tillräckligt hälsosamma, finns kvar. – Detta är en få uppföljningar som har gjorts så lång tid efter en fetmao

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/10-ar-efter-fetma-operationen-hur-blev-livet - 2025-10-03

Myndigheter och företag kan idag uppleva att de utmanas av misstroende medborgare i digitala forum. Även om organisationer och medborgare sällan möts i dialog eller diskussion med varandra, så konstruerar de hela tiden föreställningar om varandra. Detta är något Maria Rosén, Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation, tittat närmare på i sin avhandling som hon försvarar den 21 maj 2021. Avhandling

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/ny-avhandling-i-strategisk-kommunikation - 2025-10-03

Ett starkt yttre tryck är nödvändigt för att få stopp på våldsamheterna mellan Israel och Hamas, som riskerar att övergå i fullskaligt krig om inget görs. Och det måste ske snabbt. Det säger freds- och konfliktforskaren Lisa Strömbom. FN varnar för fullskaligt krig om det pågående våldet mellan Israel och Hamas fortsätter att trappas upp. Flera hundra, varav många barn, har dödats i samband med an

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/israel-palestina-konflikten-ett-yttre-tryck-behovs-att-fa-parterna-till-forhandlingsbordet - 2025-10-03