Published 2 March 2020 Researchers have discovered nematodes, or worms, in the brains of lizard embryos. This is the first time they have been found in reptile eggs, and it was previously believed that egg laying prevents parasites from being transmitted in this way. The discovery was made by an international research team led by Nathalie Feiner, evolutionary biologist at Lund University in Sweden

https://www.science.lu.se/article/worms-discovered-brain-lizard-embryos-first-time - 2025-04-25

Published 6 March 2020 Grey-crowned babblers raise their chicks in family groups. Photo: Graham Lee. Bird social groups are more complex than previously thought. Now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have established that bird species which raise their young in nuclear family groups develop greater social complexity compared with species that raise their young in groups without family ties

https://www.science.lu.se/article/raising-young-nuclear-family-groups-evolutionary-bliss-some-birds - 2025-04-25

Published 6 April 2020 An international research team from Sweden and Hungary have discovered an entirely new sense in dogs: using their cold, wet nose tips, dogs can sense the heat from other animals or a human. “It has taken a rather long time to discover this, given that dog and man have lived side by side for 15,000 years, and we have remained unaware of this ability”, says Ronald Kröger, prof

https://www.science.lu.se/article/dogs-can-detect-heat-noses-study-finds - 2025-04-25

Published 23 April 2020 Springtails. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. The earthy smell in spring when the fields are ploughed and the garden soil in flower beds is dug over has a previously unknown purpose. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and other institutions have examined the soil smell and were able to show that it is linked to intricate int

https://www.science.lu.se/article/story-behind-earthy-smell-spring - 2025-04-25

Published 24 April 2020 In an advanced experiment, researchers have established that nanoparticles made of metal and semiconductors have properties never previously observed. Among other things, the particles are extremely good at amplifying incident laser light. The new discovery could become very important for the development of optical computers in the future. In a study published in the scient

https://www.science.lu.se/article/gold-nanosponges-could-be-useful-computers-future - 2025-04-25

Published 27 April 2020 The emergence and evolution of photosynthesis played a decisive role when life on earth began four billion years ago. In the past decade, some researchers have presented claims that quantum mechanical coherence plays an important role in this complex process. These ideas have now been critically evaluated in a study published in the scientific journal Science Advances. Phot

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-study-undermines-ideas-importance-special-quantum-mechanical-effects-photosynthesis - 2025-04-25

Published 4 May 2020 The Svalbard rock ptarmigan. Photo: Andreas Nord. The extreme cold, harsh environment and constant hunt for food means that Arctic animals have become specialists in saving energy. Now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a previously unknown energy-saving method used by birds during the polar night. Researchers from Lund University and the University of T

https://www.science.lu.se/article/arctic-wildlife-uses-extreme-method-save-energy - 2025-04-25

Published 7 May 2020 For the first time, an international research team has succeeded in quantifying the toxic oligomers that break down the nerve cells in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. The discovery could be crucial in the hunt for new methods to limit the rapidly growing dementia disease. For the first time, an international research team has succeeded in quantifying the toxic oligomers th

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-discovery-facilitates-hunt-methods-limit-alzheimers-disease - 2025-04-25

Published 19 May 2020 An international research team has discovered a treatment that dramatically reduces swelling after brain and spinal cord damage. By using an already approved drug on rats, the brain’s water channels could be manipulated with positive results. The new study offers hope to the millions of people who are affected by brain and spinal cord damage. According to the World Health Org

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-study-brains-water-channels-offers-hope-those-brain-and-spinal-cord-damage - 2025-04-25

Published 19 May 2020 In a future warmer climate, evaporation from the northern hemisphere’s wetlands will increase significantly more than previously thought. This is shown by an international study involving researchers from Lund University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. The new discovery provides important knowledge about how the world water balance will be affected in the

https://www.science.lu.se/article/rising-temperatures-affect-wetlands-and-disrupt-water-balance - 2025-04-25

Published 7 July 2020 A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that female birds benefit more from extra food in the winter. If females receive additional food, they do not need to reduce their body temperature as much as they would have otherwise, and the chances of surviving cold nights increase. Birds possess an extreme ability to regulate their own body temperature. On cold winter nigh

https://www.science.lu.se/article/bird-feeding-helps-females-more-males - 2025-04-25

Published 11 August 2020 Image of corona from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory showing features created by magnetic fields. Image credit: NASA. Extensive power outages and satellite blackouts that affect air travel and the internet are some of the potential consequences of massive solar storms. These storms are believed to be caused by the release of enormous amounts of stored magnetic energy due

https://www.science.lu.se/article/breakthrough-method-predicting-solar-storms - 2025-04-25

Published 12 August 2020 Martin Rey, astrophysicist at Lund University. Photo by Johan Joelsson. The question of how small, dwarf galaxies have sustained the formation of new stars over the course of the Universe has long confounded the world’s astronomers. An international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has found that dormant small galaxies can slowly accumulate gas over many bill

https://www.science.lu.se/article/how-stars-form-smallest-galaxies - 2025-04-25

Published 4 September 2020 Colourful common wall lizards and an innovative X-ray microscope. Two researchers from the Faculty of Science have been granted five-year starting grants totalling EUR 3.5 million from the European Research Council. Nathalie Feiner, researcher in evolutionary biology, will focus on parallel evolution among six species of common wall lizards found in the Mediterranean reg

https://www.science.lu.se/article/two-researchers-faculty-science-share-sek-35-million-european-research-council - 2025-04-25

Published 21 September 2020 The researchers tracked 102 common swifts on their journey to Africa. Photo: Aron Hejdström. Compared with other migratory birds, the common swift follows a very unusual pattern when it migrates from the breeding areas in Europe to its wintering locations south of the Sahara. This is what researchers have observed in a major eleven-year international study of the birds.

https://www.science.lu.se/article/rare-pattern-observed-migrating-common-swifts - 2025-04-25

Published 26 October 2020 Photo: ESO, European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere. A galactic journey spanning the history of the Milky Way. The supernatural powers of migratory birds. Two exciting research projects will soon commence at Lund University thanks to a multi-million donation from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Time travel through the Milky Way

https://www.science.lu.se/article/research-projects-galaxies-and-migratory-birds-awarded-grants - 2025-04-25

Published 10 November 2020 A banded demoiselle, one of the two species studied. Photo: Erik Svensson. Insects have difficulties handling the higher temperatures brought on by climate change, and might risk overheating. The ability to reproduce is also strongly affected by rising temperatures, even in northern areas of the world, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. Insects cann

https://www.science.lu.se/article/high-temperatures-threaten-survival-insects - 2025-04-25

Published 24 November 2020 The dance that binary stars do around each other offers new clues to the chemical evolution of our Galaxy, the Milky Way – so says a current research study. For the first time, researchers have identified the link between the orbiting times of certain binary stars and the amount of iron in their interiors. Binary stars are systems containing two stars that orbit each oth

https://www.science.lu.se/article/iron-binary-stars-reflects-galaxys-chemical-evolution - 2025-04-25

Published 9 December 2020 Caterina Doglioni. She wants to shed new light on the dark matter that has long baffled the world of research. Now, researcher in particle physics Caterina Doglioni is receiving 2 million euro from the European Research Council (ERC). Caterina Doglioni, assistant senior lecturer in particle physics, is receiving around 2 million euro to build up a research team over five

https://www.science.lu.se/article/prestigious-grant-particle-physicist - 2025-04-25

Published 15 December 2020 David Winge. Photo: Evelina Lindén. How do bees always find their way home, not to mention in a straight line? What is it about the insect brain that allows them to navigate so easily? Could we copy that function? A step in this direction has now been taken by a group of scientists in a project combining the fields of biology, physics, nanoscience and informatics. At fir

https://www.science.lu.se/article/mimicking-navigation-insect-brain - 2025-04-25