Publicerad 26 november 2018 Ett nytt forskningsprojekt vid Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten ska under fyra år undersöka de problem som orsakas av ökad turism till städer och skapa strategier för att motverka problemen. Projektet kommer att pågå under fyra års tid och finansieras av Formas med 19,2 miljoner kronor. Antalet turister i städer förväntas öka i framtiden och med turisterna ökar även de

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/19-miljoner-till-forskningsprojekt-om-hallbar-urban-turism - 2025-02-11

Av Kristina [dot] Lindgarde [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Kristina Lindgärde) - publicerad 28 november 2018 Han inledde sin karriär med att stämma BT Kemi 1976. På fredag disputerar miljörättsadvokaten Staffan Michelson i rättssociologi. I sin avhandling har han tagit reda på hur miljöengagerade personer och företag kan ta hjälp av juridiken för att främja arbetet för en hållbar utveckling. – Många

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/miljorattsadvokatens-tre-hallbarhetstips - 2025-02-11

Av kristina [dot] lindgarde [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Kristina Lindgärde) - publicerad 13 december 2018 Socialsekreterarnas arbetsuppgifter i Trelleborg har delvis övertagits av ”smarta datorer”, eller automatiserat beslutsfattande. Nu ska forskare i socialt arbete utvärdera den omstridda Trelleborgsmodellen och ta reda på vad som händer när ny teknik tar över vissa arbetsuppgifter. Blir socials

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Publicerad 14 december 2018 Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten vid Lunds universitet har utsett journalisten Tomas Ramberg (född 1958) till hedersdoktor. Tomas Ramberg har varit knuten till Dagens Eko sedan början av 1990-talet. Han ledde under en tioårsperiod radioprogrammet Ekots lördagsintervju. För närvarande är han verksam som inrikespolitisk kommentator vid Ekoredaktionen. Han deltar också i p

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Publicerad 18 december 2018 Lisa Strömbom vid Statsvetenskapliga institutionen är en av fem forskare som i år har beviljats anslag inom den svenska spetssatsningen Swedish Foundations’ Starting grant.Projektet som finansieras har titeln ”Pushing the boundaries of peace research – reconceptualizing and measuring agonistic peace”. Det undersöker hur fredsprocesser kan göras mer inkluderande och vilk

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Av Kristina [dot] Lindgarde [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Kristina Lindgärde) - publicerad 21 januari 2019 Vi använder mycket vatten, energi och tvättmedel för att passa in i ett förväntat renlighetsideal snarare än för att klara hygienen. För att snabba på beteendeförändringar förespråkar en ny avhandling att energiförbrukningen på exempelvis tvätt- och diskmaskiner synliggörs. Många vill minska si

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/andrade-renlighetsideal-i-klimatkrisens-spar - 2025-02-11

Av Jessica [dot] Bloem [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessica Bloem) - publicerad 22 januari 2019 En ny regering är på plats efter en unik period i svensk politik. Pressen på politiker att ständigt trycka på med snabba och dräpande budskap kan ha försvårat förhandlingarna, konstaterar forskare. Månaderna efter valet har kännetecknats av hård politisk debatt – inte minst i sociala medier – o

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Published 13 January 2021 Clifford Woodward and Melissa Franklin. A particle physicist involved in popular education and who made a number of global discoveries in her research portfolio and a professor of theoretical physical chemistry who has developed theoretical models in the area straddling chemistry and physics. Melissa Franklin and Clifford Woodward have been appointed honorary doctors at t

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Published 20 January 2021 Silver-washed fritillary butterfly. Photo: Per Henningson. 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 hi

https://www.science.lu.se/article/butterfly-wing-clap-explains-mystery-flight - 2025-02-11

Published 26 January 2021 Photo: Unsplash. Theories were introduced as far back as the 1960s about the possible existence of superheavy elements. Their most long-lived nuclei could give rise to a so-called “island of stability” far beyond the element uranium. However, a new study, led by nuclear physicists at Lund University, shows that a 50-year-old nuclear physics manifesto must now be revised.

https://www.science.lu.se/article/nuclear-physicists-voyage-towards-mythical-island - 2025-02-11

Published 8 February 2021 Researchers have discovered individual traits in fungi in their hunt for food. Maze-like structure made of silicone. Photo: Kristin Aleklett Kadish. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered the individual traits of fungi, and how their hyphae – that is, the fungal threads that grow in soil - behave very differently as they navigate through the earth’s micr

https://www.science.lu.se/article/soldiers-snakes-and-marathon-runners-hidden-world-fungi - 2025-02-11

Published 8 February 2021 Photo: Charlie Cornwallis. The world's largest bird, the ostrich, has problems reproducing when the temperature deviates by 5 degrees or more from the ideal temperature of 20 °C. The research, from Lund University, is published in Nature Communications. The results show that the females lay up to 40 percent fewer eggs if the temperature has fluctuated in the days before l

https://www.science.lu.se/article/ostriches-challenged-temperature-fluctuations - 2025-02-11

Published 18 February 2021 A spruce bark beetle. Photo: Erling Jirle. For the first time, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has mapped out exactly what happens when spruce bark beetles use their sense of smell to find trees and partners to reproduce with. The hope is that the results will lead to better pest control and protection of the forest in the future. The Eurasian spruce bar

https://www.science.lu.se/article/breakthrough-fight-against-spruce-bark-beetles - 2025-02-11

Published 4 March 2021 Illustration: Don Dixon (copyright/used with permission). A Swedish-Danish research team is now launching a new theory of the process that led to the formation of Earth. Through advanced analyses of meteorites, astronomers can determine that Tellus went from being a baby planet made of ice and carbon to reaching its current size thanks to millimetre-sized pebbles. The study

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-study-shows-earth-was-formed-millimetre-sized-pebbles-over-short-period - 2025-02-11

Published 4 March 2021 Image: Pixabay. Sixty-six million years ago, a gigantic celestial body crashed to Earth on the Yucatán peninsula, forming a crater 200 kilometres across. The impact plunged Earth into darkness and killed off the dinosaurs. Now, researchers from Lund University in Sweden, among others, are analysing drill cores from the crater to reconstruct in detail what happened on Earth d

https://www.science.lu.se/article/drill-cores-mexican-crater-provide-new-knowledge-about-dinosaurs-extinction - 2025-02-11

Published 15 March 2021 Roman Pasechnik For 50 years, the world of research has been searching eagerly for the so-called Odderon particle – entirely fruitlessly. However, a Swedish-Hungarian research team has managed to discover the mythical particle with the help of extensive data analyses. In 1973, two French particle physicists were sitting in a basement amazed. According to their calculations,

https://www.science.lu.se/article/particle-physics-detective-work-behind-solution-50-year-old-riddle - 2025-02-11

Published 15 March 2021 Photo: Wikimedia. Long life is common among bird parents that get help with childcare. This finding comes from researchers at the universities of Lund and Oxford who reviewed data from more than 9,000 studies. Being a parent can be tough. In general, animals that care for many offspring die young, at least in species where parents are not helped by others. However, in some

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Published 23 March 2021 Illustration: Pixabay. Volcano or meteorite? Over the past 100 years, two different theories have been put forward to explain the formation of Lake Mien. However, researchers from Lund University can now definitively state in a new study that the lake in Småland was formed by a gigantic celestial object. It was long thought that the circular Lake Mien in southern Småland wa

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-study-shows-lake-mien-was-formed-meteoric-impact - 2025-02-11

Published 16 April 2021 Coal tit. Photo: Andreas Nord. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered that bird blood produces more heat in winter, when it is colder, than in autumn. The secret lies in the energy factories of cells, the mitochondria. Mammals have no mitochondria in their red blood cells, but birds do, and according to the research team from Lund and Glasgow this means th

https://www.science.lu.se/article/birds-blood-functions-heating-system-winter - 2025-02-11

Published 28 April 2021 Donatas Zigmantas. A research team at Lund University in Sweden has succeeded in uncovering the fundamental properties of plexcitons, which were previously shrouded in mystery. Now the researchers can show how the plexcitons function and suggest how they could be used in potential applications in the future. A plasmon is a quasiparticle that stems from quantisation of oscil

https://www.science.lu.se/article/lund-researchers-solve-nano-mystery-long-run-could-help-world-achieve-sustainable-development-goals - 2025-02-11