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5 Sep 2024
Biologist receives ERC Starting Grant
Øystein Opedal, associate senior lecturer at the Department of Biology, has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant.
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5 Sep 2024
Organic farms had doubled plant diversity – but only over time
It takes a long time, up to several decades, before the benefits of organic farming take full effect on land that was previously cultivated conventionally, a new study from Lund Un...
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26 Aug 2024
Socioeconomics shape children’s connection to nature more than where they live
The income and education levels of a child’s environment determine their relationship to nature, not whether they live in a city or the countryside. This is the finding of a new st...
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16 Aug 2024
Bumblebees’ sense of direction rivals that of humans
Bumblebees have a great capacity to navigate despite their small brain size. This is borne out of new research conducted at Lund University in Sweden, among others. The research re...
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14 May 2024
Conferences make scientists climate transgressors
Climate researchers often emphasise the fact that reducing carbon emissions is in everyone’s best interest, and should involve all of us. But how good are they at minimising their ...
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14 May 2024
"Incredible Hulk" lizard provides clues to understanding evolution
Body shape, colour and behaviour often evolve together as species adapt to their environment. Researchers from Lund University have studied this phenomenon in a specific type of la...
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25 Apr 2024
Unique field study shows how climate change affects fire-impacted forests
During the unusually dry year of 2018, Sweden was hit by numerous forest fires. A research team led from Lund University in Sweden has investigated how climate change affects recen...
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18 Apr 2024
Maths researchers receive funding to study mysterious algebras
Gustavo Jasso Ahuja, a researcher at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, has been awarded funding within the framework of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation’s mathematics p...
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16 Apr 2024
Two Lund researchers receive prestigious EU grant
Quaternary geologist Raimund Muscheler and physical geographer Thomas Pugh have been awarded the ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research Council. They will receive EUR 2.5 mill...
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12 Apr 2024
Marine worm with outstanding vision fascinates researchers
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 acti...
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7 Mar 2024
New insights on how galaxies are formed
Astronomers can use supercomputers to simulate the formation of galaxies from the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago to the present day. But there are a number of sources of error. An...
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26 Feb 2024
Destruction of Gaza monitored from space
Physical geographer Lina Eklund is tracking the destruction of Gaza week by week using satellite images. Her analyses could be significant if, once the fighting between Israel and ...
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9 Feb 2024
Scandinavia’s first farmers slaughtered the hunter-gatherer population
Following the arrival of the first farmers in Scandinavia 5,900 years ago, the hunter-gatherer population was wiped out within a few generations, according to a new study from Lund...
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2 Jan 2024
The new deans have taken office
Dean Per Persson, Deputy Dean Karin Rengefors and Vice-Dean Charlotta Turner have now taken office. Get to know them better through the interviews below that were conducted in the ...
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20 Dec 2023
World-leading astrophysicist and interdisciplinary geographer are new honorary doctors of science
One is an American astronomer who has charted the innermost parts of the Milky Way using spectroscopy, the other a British professor of Geography who has made a name for herself th...
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13 Dec 2023
Astronomers determine the age of three mysterious baby stars at the heart of the Milky Way
Through analysis of high-resolution data from a ten-metre telescope in Hawaii, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in generating new knowledge about three stars...
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13 Dec 2023
Commonly used pesticides are still harming bees
A new study from Lund University confirms that pesticides commonly used in farmland significantly harm bumblebees. Data from 106 sites across 8 European countries show that despite...
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13 Dec 2023
Lund-led greenhouse gas flow publication has huge media impact
Physical geographer Alex Vermeulen, who leads the work on the ICOS Carbon Portal, was the editor of a new publication about increasing greenhouse gas flows that has had a large int...
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17 Nov 2023
Scientists have solved the damselfly colour mystery
For over 20 years, a research team at Lund University in Sweden has studied the common bluetail damselfly. Females occur in three different colour forms – one with a male-like appe...
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10 Nov 2023
Large herbivores such as elephants, bison and moose contribute to tree diversity
Using global satellite data, a research team has mapped the tree cover of the world’s protected areas. The study shows that regions with abundant large herbivores in many settings ...