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For the first time, a research team has succeeded in collecting diverse signatures of electronic properties of perovskite semiconductors in one comprehensive picture. By using a new spectroscopy technique, researchers have managed to produce horse-like two-dimensional diagrams that may contribute to more efficient solar cells in the future. Perovskites are new materials ideally suited to produce s
Martin Bech, senior lecturer in medical radiation physics, has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant. Over a five-year period, he will conduct several exciting projects within X-ray microscopy which, among other things, can be used to generate 3D images of human tissue. Over the past decade, the use of X-ray microscopy has increased in the world of research. In contrast to standard lig
https://www.science.lu.se/article/radiation-physicist-receives-sek-20-million-grant-european-research-council-erc - 2025-12-17
Nature is a source of well-being and recovery for many people. However, research shows that there is also a growing number of individuals who experience negative emotions, such as fear, discomfort, or even disgust, toward nature. The phenomenon, called biophobia, is now highlighted in a new study from Lund University. “Research has long assumed that people fundamentally feel positive emotions towa
https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-study-challenges-idea-humans-innately-nature-loving - 2025-12-17
Solar storms can be far more powerful than previously thought. A new study has found evidence for the third known case of a massive solar storm in historical times. The researchers believe that society might not be sufficiently prepared if a similar event were to happen now. Our planet is constantly being bombarded by cosmic particles. However, at times the stream of particles is particularly stro
https://www.science.lu.se/article/researchers-uncover-additional-evidence-massive-solar-storms - 2025-12-17
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 to changes in the magnetic field of the sun’s outer atmosphere - something that until now has eluded scientists’ direct measurement. Researchers
https://www.science.lu.se/article/breakthrough-method-predicting-solar-storms - 2025-12-17
New research in five EU countries reveals stakeholders’ views on what is needed to enable a shift towards 1.5° C-compatible lifestyles. Bans and taxes for unsustainable behaviour and outcomes, positive incentives for low-carbon attitudes, and better public funding for basic services, are seen as essential climate policies to overcome current barriers to action at the household level - according to
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/sticks-and-carrots-what-should-governments-do-radical-lifestyle-change - 2025-12-17
An exciting, interesting and well-visited BECC annual meeting went off October 17-18 at Falkenberg Grand Hotel. The program was filled with lessons from the past and implications for the future regarding biodiversity conservation and policy. The meeting ended with perspectives from a climate journalist and his great tips on how to communicate climate research to the public (and journalists!).
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-yearly-meeting - 2025-12-17
Read an interview with Kimberly Nicholas, BECC researcher, dealing with food, ecosystems and land-use. Kimberly talks about Paris and COP21, taking personal responsability and social media. After five years in Lund, Kimberly Nicholas has grown roots here. She comes from a family of turkey ranchers and wine-growers in California, and food has been with her for her whole life. Her research at LUCSUS
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/aiming-good-life-thoughts-about-paris-good-food-and-wine - 2025-12-17
Tell us, why Tunisia? As a PhD student in political science with a focus on comparative politics in the Middle East, I investigate feminist activism and gender politics in the Middle East and North Africa, with a particular focus on Tunisia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. What interests me is largely that feminism is usually seen as a European or Western "product" that is exported to the rest of the worl
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hi-there-joel-w-abdelmoez-just-back-fieldwork-tunisia - 2025-12-17
“A good way to see the daily life of science.” That is one of the conclusions from the summer scholarship holders from high schools in Skåne – a programme offering teenagers a way to dive into how it is to work with research. “This is a good way to see the daily life of science – how it is to work in a lab, as a fact, not just only seeing a show that is the result of something that has had been pr
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/they-went-nanoscientific-summer-school - 2025-12-17
