Published 13 December 2021 Photo: Mostphotos Scientists at Lund University have discovered for the first time that it is possible to detect insect DNA in the air. Using air from three sites in Sweden, insect DNA from 85 species could be identified. This offers scope for exploring a whole new way to monitor terrestrial biodiversity. These preliminary results will be presented at Ecology Across Bord

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/skys-limit-using-airborne-dna-monitor-insect-biodiversity - 2025-07-11

Published 20 December 2021 The first virtual G20 summit took place on March 26th, 2020 During the pandemic, physical summits were replaced by Zoom meetings, and global political leaders had to quickly adjust. How did they visually convey their status in this new world of digital diplomacy? A new study from Lund University in Sweden analysed over 50 photos from the first virtual G20 meeting in 2020

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-politicians-project-their-status-virtual-meetings - 2025-07-11

Published 10 January 2022 For many years, a bottleneck in technological development has been how to get processors and memories to work faster together. Now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have presented a new solution integrating a memory cell with a processor, which enables much faster calculations, as they happen in the memory circuit itself. In an article in Nature Electronics, the r

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nanowire-transistor-integrated-memory-enable-future-supercomputers - 2025-07-11

Published 10 January 2022 The Arrival Day for international students who are to begin their studies at Lund University in the spring of 2022 is Monday 10 January, 2022. All the events during the reception day and introductory weeks have been adapted due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Lund University expects around 600 international students this spring. Just like the previous number of semesters during

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/adapted-arrival-day-lus-incoming-international-students - 2025-07-11

Published 11 January 2022 Pouya Movahed Rad Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have compared the effects of intravenous ketamine treatment with ECT treatment in severe depression. The results support the view that ketamine is a possible treatment, but also show that ECT treatment helps more people. In recent years, ketamine has emerged as a new treatment for depression, after studies have sh

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ect-more-effective-ketamine-severe-depression - 2025-07-11

Published 11 January 2022 Lea Fünfschilling and Carmelo D’Agostino (Photo: Robert Olsson and private image) LU researchers Lea Fünfschilling and Carmelo D’Agostino have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant each, for their research on innovation and knowledge dynamics and automated vehicles respectively. The ERC Starting Grant is aimed at researchers in the early stages of their career, and scientifi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/two-lu-researchers-receive-erc-starting-grants - 2025-07-11

By marianne [dot] loor [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Loor) - published 13 January 2022 The border between Turkey in the north and Syria in the south has similar biophysical characteristics but shows a difference in vegetation greenness. Research at Lund University tries to find out why. Image from SentinelHub. To find out why so many people have left their farms in north-eastern Syria, phys

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/knowledge-about-climate-stress-could-counteract-conflicts - 2025-07-11

Published 17 January 2022 Pontus Nordenfelt and Wael Bahnan When we talk about antibodies against COVID-19, we tend to mean the so-called neutralising antibodies, that offer protection by blocking the virus from invading our cells. Now, a new study from Lund University in Sweden has revealed that non-neutralising antibodies may also be important in providing protection against Covid. “Our results

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/additional-antibodies-may-protect-against-covid - 2025-07-11

Published 19 January 2022 Photo: Michael Erhardsson, Mostphotos Extreme poverty is still an urgent issue around the world. Four universities have initiated a new research school on sustainable development and poverty reduction to address the challenge. The research school will be coordinated via Lund University. The new research school, which has been granted six million SEK from the Swedish Resea

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-research-school-strengthens-focus-poverty-reduction - 2025-07-11

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 20 January 2022 The probability that at some point as a professional musician you feel stage fright is high. Therefore, it is important to learn tools to handle it. Photo: iStockphoto. Francisca Skoogh, an international concert pianist, psychologist and researcher at the Malmö Academy of Music, wants to support tomor

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/getting-butterflies-fly-formation-art-managing-performance-anxiety - 2025-07-11

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 21 January 2022 Swati Aggarwal and Ashley Middleton are from two completely different worlds but have found a creative and exciting way to create art from research. Photo: Kennet Ruona. A handful of selected artists have paired up with researchers from the European Spallation Source (ESS) and the results are unexpect

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/art-research-new-ways-seeing - 2025-07-11

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 25 January 2022 This is where Helsingborg's new district, Oceanhamnen, is emerging. Jessica Engvall and Elisabeth Högdahl think about how memories from what was previously a port area can be brought to life in urban planning. Photo: Sven - Eric Svensson Allow stories to speak and weave in memories. A multidimensional

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/meaningful-memories-inspire-urban-planning - 2025-07-11

Published 26 January 2022 Photo: NASA/SDO/AIA/LMSAL Through analyzes of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has found evidence of an extreme solar storm that occurred about 9,200 years ago. What puzzles the researchers is that the storm took place during one of the sun's more quiet phases – during which it is generally believed our planet is le

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ancient-ice-reveals-mysterious-solar-storm - 2025-07-11

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 28 January 2022 Guests and guides during the performance 'Island' in August 2020. Photo: Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir. What is worth sustaining? Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir's research is all about a theatre audience facing themselves with that profound question. "In my work I offer a frame or a situation for my guests to

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/no-man-island - 2025-07-11

Published 28 January 2022 Illustration: Bibiana Prinoth Using high-resolution spectroscopy, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in mapping the atmosphere of an exoplanet located 322 light years from Earth. The knowledge gained about the hot gas surrounding the Jupiter-like planet is important for the understanding of Earth-like planets. WASP-189b is a planet outside our own sol

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/exotic-cocktail-atmosphere-extreme-exoplanet - 2025-07-11

Published 1 February 2022 The LUSEM team finished sixth at the John Molson case competition. From the left: Jakob Hultström Palerius, Sebastian van Dijkman, Mats Urde (Coach), Dominykas Vidžiūnas, Lum Rexha. (At the training session in Mölle.) As only the second team ever, the LU team made it to the semifinals and finished sixth in this year's John Molson MBA International Case Competition – the l

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-reaches-semifinals-prestigious-mba-competition - 2025-07-11

By marianne [dot] loor [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Loor) - published 2 February 2022 New knowledge about how the body's cells can be reprogrammed to attack their attackers gives hope to more and more patient groups. Techniques with minor side effects and new drugs are already in use. Photo: iStockphoto T cells, antibodies, immune defences – concepts we have learnt more about after a coupl

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/bodys-fantastic-defence-system-gets-help-fight-against-cancer - 2025-07-11

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 4 February 2022 Anna Berg and Maj Persson, biologists and freelance creators, collecting material for the ARNA project 'The landscape as a designed living environment'. Photographer: Nille Leander. The Vombsjö basin in Skåne could become the world's first biosphere reserve integrating the cultural dimension. If the a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/vombsjo-basin-way-becoming-unique-new-biosphere-reserve - 2025-07-11

Published 4 February 2022 Mats Moberg, Senior Vice President Research & Development at Volvo Cars and Annika Olsson, Dean at the Faculty of Engineering. (Photo: Kennet Ruona) The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University and Volvo Cars have signed an agreement to strengthen existing research collaborations and identify new areas for mutual benefit and development – and in this way contribute to so

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-between-lund-university-and-volvo-cars - 2025-07-11

Published 8 February 2022 Electron microscope image shows a blod stem cell on top of a membrane of nanotubes (Image: M. Hjort and L. Schmiderer) An interdisciplinary research team has successfully used innovation to solve a persistent major problem in stem cell research. More specifically, to gently introduce therapeutic biomolecules into target cells to increase their growth. The project has now

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-nanostraws-can-increase-number-blood-stem-cells - 2025-07-11