Published 1 April 2025 Photo: Istockphoto/Maren Winter Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is what researchers at Lund University in Sweden found when they collected dead hedgehogs to investigate the environmental pollutants found in urban environments. Previous research has investigated the presence of heavy me

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/surprising-number-environmental-pollutants-hedgehogs - 2025-04-07

Published 7 April 2025 CMES Researcher Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored an article for PLOS One. "Enhancement of standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index predictions by machine learning based on regression and soft computing for Iran’s arid and hyper–arid region"IntroductionDrought is a climate risk that affects access to safe water, crop development, ecological stability, and food prod

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/improving-drought-forecasting-irans-arid-regions-using-machine-learning-and-soft-computing - 2025-04-07

Published 4 April 2025 The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society (WASP-HS) och SciLifeLab, Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS), has recently granted funds of 3 967 000 SEK to the project "Explainable and Just AI in Data-Driven Disease Surveillance".Atiye Sadat Hashemi and Yana Litins'ka are leading the project which constitutes an

https://www.law.lu.se/article/yana-litinska-awarded-funding-interdisciplinary-project - 2025-04-07

Published 4 April 2025 The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society (WASP-HS) och SciLifeLab, Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS), har nyligen beviljat forskningsfinansiering för projektet "Explainable and Just AI in Data-Driven Disease Surveillance".Projektet leds av Atiye Sadat Hashemi, postdoktor, och Yana Litins'ka, docent i offe

https://www.jur.lu.se/artikel/yana-litinska-beviljas-anslag-tvarvetenskapligt-projekt - 2025-04-07

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 20 June 2024 One of the things the Lindau Meeting participants had the opportunity to experience in 2023 was a boat trip to Mainau. Photo: Julia Nimke/Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings For the 73rd time, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting will be arranged. It takes place 30 June–5 July 2024 in Bayern, Germany, by the beautiful Boden

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/next-stop-lindau-nobel-laureate-meeting - 2025-04-07

Publicerad 7 april 2025 Från början till slut har Åke Lernmark varit huvudansvarig för den svenska delen av TEDDY-studien. Han har följt barnen och alla resultat genom åren som gått. Skrivit mängder av artiklar som publicerats i flera olika tidskrifter värden över. Han har vigt sitt liv till forskning inom autoimmun (typ 1) diabetes och det finns få som vet så mycket inom området som han. Nu har h

https://www.teddy.lu.se/artikel/teddy-studien-fram-till-2024-vad-har-vi-lart-oss-och-hur-gar-vi-vidare - 2025-04-07

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 19 March 2025 For the tenth consecutive year, Lund Stem Cell Center welcomed 200 high school students from across southern Sweden to Lund University's Faculty of Medicine for UniStem Day 2025 on Friday, 14 March, 2025. For the tenth consecutive year, Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University welcomed high school student

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/unistem-day-2025-decade-inspiring-future-scientists-lund - 2025-04-07

Av jenny [dot] hansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Hansson) - publicerad 7 april 2023 Universitetet är med i klimatsamarbetet CoAction Lund och i vår kommer alla deltagande organisationer tävla mot varandra inom hållbar pendling. För att tävla kan du välja på att cykla, åka kollektivt, samåka bil eller gå till arbetet. Tävlingen sträcker sig över fem veckor, 28 april – 30 maj och avslutas me

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/gor-din-pendling-till-en-vinnande-vana-var-med-och-tavla-om-fina-priser - 2025-04-07

By jenny [dot] hansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Hansson) - published 7 April 2023 The University is part of the climate collaboration CoAction Lund and this spring all participating organisations will compete against each other in sustainable commuting. To compete, you can choose to cycle, use public transport, carpool or walk to work. The competition will run for five weeks, from 28 Apri

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/make-your-commute-winning-habit-join-competition-great-prizes - 2025-04-07

By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 7 April 2025 Rikuto Sugihara and Naoki Iwahori are from Nagoya University and are studying at the Medical program. Photo: Maria Sjöström. The aim of the evening is to increase interest in exchange studies among our students, but also to take care of our incoming students and give them the opportunity to meet each o

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/student-exchange-experiences-and-pizzas-shared-evening-international-opportunity - 2025-04-07

Av agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - publicerad 7 april 2025 Rikuto Sugihara och Naoki Iwahori är från Nagoya University och pluggar på läkarprogrammet. Foto: Maria Sjöström. Syftet med kvällen är öka intresset för utbytesstudier bland våra studenter, men också att ta hand om våra inresande studenter och ge dem möjlighet att träffa varandra och våra svenska stu

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/utlandserfarenheter-pizzor-delades-pa-en-kvall-med-internationella-mojligheter - 2025-04-07

Av katrin [dot] stahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl) - publicerad 7 april 2025 Illustration: iStock. Över två miljoner människor, bara i Sverige, lever med sjukdom kopplat till hjärta och lungor. Framgångsrik forskning har bidragit till att färre dör, men hjärt-lungsjukdomar är fortfarande bland de vanligaste dödsorsakerna. Nu delar Hjärt-Lungfonden ut 76 miljoner kronor till forskning

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/grattis-till-hjart-lungforskare-vid-lunds-universitet-som-far-dela-pa-76-miljoner - 2025-04-07

Av tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - publicerad 20 mars 2025 "Desfluran är 2 500 gånger mer potent än koldioxid. Höginkomstländer som USA, har kraftig minskat sin användning men gasen står fortfarande för mer än 60 procent av deras klimatutsläpp från narkosgaser", säger Adrien Talbot. Foto: Tove Smeds Narkosgaser är potenta växthusgaser vars totala globala påverkan hittill

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/minskad-klimatpaverkan-fran-narkosgaser-men-oroande-trend-i-medelinkomstlander - 2025-04-07

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 7 April 2025 “High-income countries, such as the United States, have sharply reduced their use but the gas still accounts for more than 60% of their climate emissions from anaesthetic gases", says Talbot. Photo: iStock Gases used in anaesthesia are potent greenhouse gases, and their total global impact has not previously been

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/reduced-climate-impact-anaesthetic-gases-worrying-trend-middle-income-countries - 2025-04-07

Published 7 April 2025 A recent debate article published in the newspaper Aftonbladet calls for urgent political action to reduce consumption-related emissions. The article published in Aftonbladet is written by fourteen Swedish researchers* in sustainable consumption. It calls for urgent political action to reduce consumption-related emissions. The main argument is that technological solutions an

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/urgent-political-action-required-reduce-consumption-related-emissions - 2025-04-07