One of the two masts at the research station reaches 150 metres straight up in the air from the dense forest. A staff member climbs the mast every other week. Photo: Adam Kristensson 20 years of measurements are only the beginning. Long-term measurements over several decades are crucial to enable predictions of how airborne particles affect the future climate, according to Lund University research

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/long-term-measurements-show-how-climate-changing - 2025-08-25

3D illustration of different pollen Is it possible that a tiny pollen dredged up from a European lake can hold answers about both our past and our future? Researchers at Lund University use pollen as old as 12 000 years to predict our future climate, and to study ecological and historical change. Researchers Esther Githumbi and Johan Lindström use pollen from the ice age to the present to inform v

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/old-pollen-seed-can-predict-tomorrows-climate - 2025-08-25

The cover of Giulia Beneventi's thesis illustrates all of the different RNA types in cells. She defends his thesis on the 8th of December. Giulia Beneventi has investigated the role of RNA modifications and post-transcriptional control in cancer and stem cells. In this interview, she tells us about her research and what is it like to be a PhD student in newly established group. Giulia defends her

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-giulia-beneventi - 2025-08-25

A graphical image depicting the reprogramming of human skin cells to astrocytes. Image credit: Cathrine Ahlenius Researchers from Lund University interested in understanding how aging affects the brain have made a new discovery that will help make it easier to study age-related brain diseases and potential treatments in the future. The key to this? human skin cells. The human brain is often likene

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/how-our-skin-cells-might-be-key-better-understanding-human-brain - 2025-08-25

The study shines a light on the need for adaptation laws and policies that empower vulnerable communities, rather than displacing them, say the researchers. Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson. How should societies adapt to rising seas, floods, and other climate threats? These questions are explored in a new study by LUCSUS researchers. It reveals that the answer is broader than just improved policies

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/rethinking-laws-climate-adaptation-exploring-resistance-flooded-cartagena - 2025-08-25

Kajsa M Paulsson is the Faculty's infrastructure expert and leads the group that is working to find a new model for the infrastructure's organisation. Photo: Ingemar Hultquist. During spring, a faculty group has worked on developing alternatives for a new organisation for the Faculty's research infrastructure. Kajsa M Paulsson has led the work and tells more. Why does the Faculty want to reorganis

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/open-hearing-our-research-infrastructure-238-more-sustainable-and-efficient-organisation-way - 2025-08-25

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-discovery-restores-insulin-cell-function-type-2-diabetes - 2025-08-25

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/strict-diet-explains-metabolic-effect-gastric-pass-surgery - 2025-08-25

ChatGPT is one of the AI services used in cheating. Academic misconduct has increased with about 200% during the past covid years. As a precaution Lund University has started a project to prevent deception and misleading in examination, whether it’s unauthorized cooperation, plagiarism, or non-allowed aids. In every study environment there is a unique culture, with boundaries to what is considered

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/ai-forces-teachers-change-way-courses-are-examined - 2025-08-25

For people with mental health problems, it can take time and be difficult to achieve a successful working life. A new thesis from Lund University describes what is required to facilitate working life for persons with mental health problems: Hope and belief in the person's ability to work. To focus on the person and increase knowledge of mental illness among both employers and those who work with v

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/belief-peoples-ability-work - 2025-08-25

A graphical image depicting the reprogramming of human skin cells to astrocytes. Image: Cathrine Ahlenius Researchers from Lund University interested in understanding how aging affects the brain have made a new discovery that will help make it easier to study age-related brain diseases and potential treatments in the future. The key to this? human skin cells. The human brain is often likened to th

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/how-our-skin-cells-might-be-key-better-understanding-human-brain - 2025-08-25

Derek Logan, Ulf Nilsson and Karin Lindkvist are all adding bits to solve the protein puzzle. Photo: Tove Smeds Research is like solving a puzzle, some might say. One of the biggest of these is the body’s proteins – with over 90,000 pieces to keep track of. LUM meets three professors of protein to understand what makes the subject so fascinating and how they are working to understand when proteins

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/protein-professors-puzzle - 2025-08-26

Illustration: Axel Brechensbauer One of the biggest perks of teaching at university? Supervising students and seeing them grow into their role. That is at least according to senior lecturers Olof Hallonsten and Anna Jonsson. Detectives with magnifying glasses and catching and preparing a fish. Those are two of the metaphors that Anna Jonsson and Olof Hallonsten use to explain the relationship betw

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/comic-strips-and-metaphors-help-students-reflect - 2025-08-26

The core samples of millennia-old ice bear witness of severe solar storms long ago. Photo: Raimund Muscheler Contained within Greenland’s millennia-old ice are the traces of gigantic solar storms. Geology professor Raimund Muscheler is now undertaking a major initiative to chart the storms back through time, to improve our knowledge of potentially dangerous solar flares. Our sun is currently in an

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ice-stone-age-might-reveal-future-solar-storms - 2025-08-26

Heleneholm as a campus area for the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts has gained momentum. Photo: David Castor/wikimedia commons With Varvsstaden out of the picture, the University of Chicago’s establishment and investment in one of the US megacity’s most vulnerable areas, South Side, serve as the blueprint for the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts’ future co-location. “Imagine creating a camp

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/faculty-fine-and-performing-arts-mulls-co-location-heleneholm - 2025-08-26

Fredrik Tufvesson, a professor of Communications Engineering at LTH, is in the midst of developing 6G technology for use in the 2030s. Photo: Jessika Sellergren Everyone is familiar with the frustration that comes when otherwise excellent mobile phone reception suddenly drops out. The moment when all mobile communication becomes impossible. But why does this happen and what is really behind the nu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/energy-efficiency-key-future-6g-technology - 2025-08-26

Sverre Spoelstra is currently doing research on gamification in high-performance organisations and algorithmic leadership. Photo: Louise Larsson In just a few years, artificial intelligence has gone from horror film bogie man to a tool integrated into every phone and computer. From spell check to shopping recommendations – and now to allocating tasks at work and measuring performance. LUM met with

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/will-your-next-boss-be-artificially-intelligent - 2025-08-26

Annika Olsson, dean of LTH, Magnus Genrup, head of the Department of Energy Sciences, and Karolina Isaksson, Head of Finance at LTH. Photo: Kennet Ruona, Johan Persson and private Lund University’s researchers are good at applying for and obtaining external research grants. But many funding bodies require faculties and departments to co-fund research projects, something that is becoming a major fi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/co-funding-increasingly-difficult-challenge - 2025-08-26

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-politicians-project-their-status-virtual-meetings - 2025-08-25

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 unexpected meetings, different thoughts and new challenges. Both for the artists and the researchers. The

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/art-research-new-ways-seeing - 2025-08-25