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23 Oct 2025 | News
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.

23 Oct 2025 | News
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...

23 Oct 2025 | News
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...

16 Oct 2025 | News
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...

14 Oct 2025 | News
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...