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11 Dec 2025
Honeybees crowd out bumblebees - even on flower-rich heathlands
When the late summer sun falls over Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains, the slopes turn purple with blooming heather. Honeybees are moved to the heathlands for the sought-after heather ho...
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5 Dec 2025
New study challenges the idea of humans as innately nature-loving
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 ...
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27 Nov 2025
Old air samples hint at effects of climate change
Through the DNA analysis of old air samples collected by the Swedish Armed Forces, researchers at Lund University in Sweden can show that spore dispersal of northern mosses has shi...
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20 Nov 2025
Dog diversity is thousands of years older than we thought
We tend to attribute today's zoological menagerie of dog breeds to Victorian gentlemen with a penchant for selective breeding. The truth, however, goes back much further. An intern...
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19 Nov 2025
Continuous-Cover Forestry: Testing Methods for the Future
Continuous-cover forestry methods are gaining attention as a way to enable forests to deliver a broader range of benefits. The aim is to make forestry more sustainable, but signifi...
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23 Oct 2025
New study reveals the innermost secrets of spaghetti
What keeps spaghetti from disintegrating in boiling water? The answer, according to new research, is gluten. The amount of salt in the water also has an unexpected significance.
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23 Oct 2025
Award for environmental pioneer – has a message for academia
Environmental pioneer Henrik Smith has won a major international ecology prize. He is also keen to emphasise the importance of research activity’s interaction with society – gone a...
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23 Oct 2025
A new eye on the universe opens in Chile
A new instrument on the four-metre VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile has recently captured its first starlight. This marks the beginning of a new era in...
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16 Oct 2025
Researchers take a step towards improved antibody therapy
Antibody-based drugs often become too thick to be injected at high concentrations. Now, new research can explain why this happens—knowledge that could eventually lead to easily inj...
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14 Oct 2025
Lund physicist appointed associate editor of Physical Review Letters
Armin Tavakoli, Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Physics at Lund University and researcher at the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology (WACQT), has been appointed...
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14 Oct 2025
The hidden highways of the sky mapped
High above us, the atmosphere is teeming with life. Birds, bats and insects share the airspace, but divide it into different lanes of traffic. New research from Lund University in ...
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6 Oct 2025
Secondary forests could be a key factor in climate management – if we protect them in time
By analysing over 100,000 field measurements as well as environmental data, an international research team has created maps that show how and when naturally regrowing forests bind ...
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26 Sep 2025
Hostile hoots make robins eat less at night
The sound of tawny owls makes young European robins eat less during their southward migration. A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows how the threat from nocturnal predat...
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26 Sep 2025
Solar fuel conundrum nears a solution
Solar energy stored in the form of fuel is something scientists hope could partially replace fossil fuels in the future. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden may have solved a ...
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22 Sep 2025
AI model from Lund University indicates four out of ten breast cancer patients could avoid axillary surgery
A project at Lund University in Sweden has trained an AI model to identify breast cancer patients who could be spared from axillary surgery. The model analyses previously unutilise...
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22 Sep 2025
Scientists solve astronomical riddle
Packed tightly together like twinkling stellar beehives, these globular clusters are made up of hundreds of thousands of stars. Now, for the first time, a team of scientists can re...
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19 Sep 2025
Recruitment initiative attracts international top researchers to the Faculty of Science
An international recruitment initiative from the university has attracted a large number of applicants. A total of 357 researchers from around the world have applied to become visi...
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11 Sep 2025
Researchers pinpoint exact pace that helps nightingales on long journey
A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that migratory birds fly at peak efficiency at a medium pace – precisely the speed they use during their long journeys across the c...
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5 Sep 2025
Surprise discovery leads to treatment for common infection
Each year, one in four women suffers from bacterial vaginosis, something that is currently treated with antibiotics. However, recently a gentler, antibiotic-free alternative has be...
