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26 Nov 2024
Researcher draws attention to dark report on greenhouse gases
Physical geographer Alex Vermeulen, who leads the work on the ICOS Carbon Portal, was the editor of a new publication on greenhouse gas flows that has received significant internat...
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8 Nov 2024
New GPS system for microorganisms could revolutionise police work
A research team led by Lund University has developed an AI tool that traces back the most recent places you have been to. The tool acts like a satellite navigation system, but inst...
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24 Oct 2024
Successful experiment paves the way for new element
Scientists have found an alternative way to produce atoms of the superheavy element livermorium. The new method opens up the possibility of creating another element that could be t...
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15 Oct 2024
Extinct brittle stars named after death metal bands
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered thirteen new species of extinct brittle stars on the island of Gotland, Sweden. The fossils were dug out of rocks from the ...
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11 Oct 2024
Grazing zooplankton severely impacted by nanoplastic particles
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have studied how nanoplastic affects aquatic organisms in lakes and rivers. The results are surprising and the researchers are the first to...
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24 Sep 2024
Beetles cooperate on tricky dung moves
Dung beetles are among the strongest animals in the world. They also possess an exceptional ability to cooperate. Research shows that female and male spider dung beetles together a...
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13 Sep 2024
Researchers discover a space oddity – an exoplanet moving in mysterious ways
A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has discovered a small planet that displays peculiar orbital motion. The shimmying planet, located 455 light-years from Earth, show...
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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...