Published 2 July 2019 Photo: Chris Collingridge. Researchers have shown for the first time that an animal uses different directional sensors to achieve the highest possible navigational precision in different conditions. When the sun is high, dung beetles navigate using the wind. The discovery of the dung beetles’ wind compass and how it complements the sun compass was made by an international res

https://www.science.lu.se/article/dung-beetles-use-wind-compass-when-sun-high - 2025-02-07

Published 3 October 2022 From the left: Sandra Lindstedt, Snejana Hyllén, and Leif Pierre. Photo: Skånes universitetssjukhus A large number of lungs donated yearly cannot be used for transplantation. Researchers at Skåne University Hospital and Lund University have conducted an animal study with results that give hope that more donor lungs could be used to save lives in the future. The researchers

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/new-treatment-can-result-access-more-donor-lungs-and-fewer-complications-after-transplantations - 2025-02-07

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 14 March 2024 In a study led by Lund University, researchers can show for the first time that traumatic brain injuries activate dormant endogenous retroviruses that have been inserted into human DNA over the course of millions of years. The activation of these viruses may be the driving force behind the inflammation that worse

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/severe-brain-trauma-activates-dormant-endogenous-retroviruses-brain - 2025-02-07

Published 16 May 2019 "We are seeing an increase in the intensity of extreme climate events, as well as growing inequality.  There is an urgency to look at the intersections between climate change and parameters such as class, gender, ethnicity and soco-economic background", says Director Emily Boyd. She is leading the four yearlong project, Recasting the disproportionate impacts of climate change

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/project-dice-linking-climate-change-and-extreme-events-inequality - 2025-02-07

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 18 July 2024 Megan Hill, Jesús Carrero Robles, Jesper Wallentin, Ingrid Klint, Jesper Larsson, Aksel Mihailov, Filip Lenrick, and Huaiyu Chen are the four supervisors and four students in the Summer School Deep Dive into Synchrotron Analysis. Photo: Evelina Lindén A few sharp minds working together for almost an entire summer. T

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/mission-get-data-unstuck - 2025-02-07

Published 29 February 2024 “You need to build deep knowledge and do academic research in parallel with industrial development. Programs like WISE provide this opportunity,” says Tetra Pak’s Eva Gustavsson. Photo: Gunnar Menander Tetra Pak and Lund University join forces in a shared research project as part of WISE (The Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability), the largest-ever r

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/exploring-ways-reduce-carbon-footprint-packaging-materials - 2025-02-07

By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 6 September 2021 Professor Lena Uller was awarded a gold medal. The original ceremony was planned to be held in Barcelona, but had to be downsized to Zoom due to current circumstances. Europe's largest respiratory society, ERS, has awarded its winners for 2021. By doing so the society wishes to recognise the achiev

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/european-gold-medal-respiratory-medicine-awarded-professor-lund - 2025-02-07

Published 25 October 2018 On Wednesday 31 October 16.00-18.00 in room R240, Gamla kirurgen 2nd floor, Sandgatan a panel on Hindu nationalism will address the particular narratives and discourses of populist politics in India in the light of neoliberal politics and globalization. The speakers will focus on how rightwing populist narratives of nativism, religion, tradition, and gender have affected

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-hindu-nationalism - 2025-02-07

By annika [dot] persson [at] ses [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Persson) - published 15 February 2023 Filippa Säwe and Cecilia Fredriksson organized the conference together with Johan Hultman. What is the sea in marine spatial planning and how does it affect our future? In a one-day conference the results and work of two finished Formas projects was presented with the theme ”Blue economy, marine market

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/blue-economy-marine-markets-and-marine-spatial-planning - 2025-02-07

Published 23 March 2021 Performance at a school council in Zambia, 2014. Photo: Per Wickenberg For 13 years, Sociology of Law Professor Per Wickenberg ran a training programme implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in schools and education in 16 countries around the world. The effort enrolled more than 500 people from 29 countries, who initiated hundreds of local projects to bet

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/looking-back-and-forward-furthering-rights-children - 2025-02-07

Published 8 November 2022 Markku Rummukainen. Photo: Lund University The UN’s annual climate change conference takes place this year in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. Over the course of two weeks, representatives of the world’s nations will gather to discuss how to achieve the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement and contribute to the climate transition. At this year’s COP, the focus will be on topics suc

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/uns-climate-change-conference-cop27-topics-agenda - 2025-02-07

By Martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 8 April 2021 On the last of December, Professor Gunnar Gouras left his position as a coordinator for MultiPark after five years. Here is how he sums up his time and mission for our environment. Can you describe your time as a coordinator for Multipark? To lead Multipark has been very interesting as well as challeng

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/interview-gunnar-gouras-about-his-time-coordinator - 2025-02-07

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/breakthrough-fight-against-spruce-bark-beetles - 2025-02-07

By jan [dot] olsson [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Jan Olsson) - published 30 July 2021 Claudia Tocco, researcher at Lund University, performing experiments with dung beetles at a light-polluted site in central Johannesburg. Photo: Marcus Byrne For the first time, researchers have been able to prove that city lights limit the ability of nocturnal animals to navigate by natural light in the night sky

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/artificial-light-disrupts-dung-beetles-sense-direction - 2025-02-07

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/scientists-have-solved-damselfly-colour-mystery - 2025-02-07

Published 11 June 2024 The large-eyed bristle worm Vanadis has long been of interest to the world’s vision researchers. But the worm has been difficult to study since it lives in the open sea and is active at night. Now, a research team has succeeded in locating an Italian worm colony and is able to confirm that the worm has a completely unique vision. Bristle worms are a group of annelid worms th

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/marine-worm-outstanding-vision-fascinates-researchers - 2025-02-07

By nina [dot] hansson [at] kanslik [dot] lu [dot] se (Nina Hansson) - published 5 January 2021 History and European studies Docent Sanimir Resic, now on leave from the joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology in Lund, is taking over as Rector of Malmö Academy of Music after Ann-Charlotte Carlén. How does it feel? -Good, the new year has now officially started with my first day here at the Academ

https://www.arts.lu.se/article/sanimir-resic-new-rector-malmo-academy-music - 2025-02-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 14 October 2021 SWEAH affiliated Arianna Poli, at Linköping University, is defending her dissertation entitled "A Divided Old Age through Research on Digital Technologies". Having access to and being able to use digital technologies is crucial for participating in today digital societies, but the access and the use of

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/towards-better-understanding-what-leads-digital-inequalities-old-age - 2025-02-07

Published 28 May 2015 Tropical rainforests have long been considered the Earth’s lungs, sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thereby slowing down the increasing greenhouse effect and associated human-made climate change. Scientists in a global research project now show that the vast extensions of semi-arid landscapes occupying the transition zone between rainforest

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-article-science-shows-savannahs-slows-climate-change - 2025-02-07

Published 2 December 2016 The BECC board has decided to strengthen the ongoing interdisciplinary development of BECC research by announcing a call for funding salary of up to 6 two-year postdoctoral researcher positions. The aim is to promote the development of BECC research by creating and strengthening interdisciplinary interactions. Application deadline is January 27st 2017, 12.00. This is an a

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/announcement-call-salary-funds-6-becc-postdoctoral-positions-lund - 2025-02-07