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Published 2 May 2018 Gaia. Illustration: ESA/ATG medialab and ESO/S. Brunier. The most comprehensive star catalogue in the history of astronomy has been released, mapping out an impressive 1.7 billion stars. The catalogue is based on observations made by the European satellite Gaia, and contains the exact distances, luminosity, temperatures and colours of millions of stars in the Milky Way. Astron

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/most-detailed-star-catalogue-ever-released - 2024-10-31

Published 3 May 2018 Ivanna Read. Photo: Mats Kristersson. Meet Ivanna Read: the Master's student in Strategic Communication who is putting Lund University on the map as a blogger on Studyinsweden.se. In addition to being a high achiever academically, she is also the University's latest global ambassador - on 8 May she will be named as Lund University's Global Swede at a ceremony at the Ministry f

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-universitys-new-global-ambassador - 2024-10-31

Published 4 May 2018 Agroecology is a better alternative than large-scale agriculture, both for the climate and for small farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to researcher Ellinor Isgren from Lund University in Sweden. This agricultural model preserves biodiversity and safeguards food supply while avoiding soil depletion. “We must consider other, alternative models for developing agriculture,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/agroecology-better-alternative-sub-saharan-africa - 2024-10-31

Jubilee Year, 19 December 2016 to 28 January 2018 Lund University celebrated its 350th anniversary from 19 December 2016 to 28 January 2018. As the University was founded on 19 December 1666, but was not officially inaugurated until 28 January 1668, the jubilee lasted 13 months instead of one year. During the 13-month jubilee, the University offered almost 400 events involving the general public,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about-university/university-glance/history-lund-university/lund-university-350-years - 2024-10-31

Published 14 May 2018 New sand filters being installed at Ringsjöverket in southern Sweden. (Photo: Sandy Chan) Sustainable, biological filters called slow sand filters have been used to filter drinking water since the 1800s. They don’t use any chemicals, create no waste and use very little energy. However, technologies that meet modern requirements for control, monitoring and time-efficiency have

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/eco-friendly-water-treatment-works-best-experienced-bacterial-flora - 2024-10-31

Published 15 May 2018 Elia Psouni For human beings to function socially, they need to be able to perceive, understand, and talk about others’ mental states, such as beliefs, desires and intentions. There is no consensus among researchers as to when children develop this ability. Previous research indicates that it emerges around the age of four, but research at Lund University in Sweden shows that

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/attentive-adults-increase-childrens-ability-empathise - 2024-10-31

Published 16 May 2018 Malin Parmar (Photo: Kennet Ruona) One of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, Novo Nordisk, are starting a new stem cell program for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease in close collaboration with Lund University. Over the last ten years, Professor Malin Parmar and her research team at the Biomedical Centre in Lund have conducted successful, clinically relevant, ba

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/collaboration-between-lund-university-researchers-and-novo-nordisk-paves-way-large-scale-cell - 2024-10-31

Published 16 May 2018 Blue tits (Photo: Johan Nilsson) For decades, researchers have thought that access to food determined the brood size of birds. Now, biologists at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a completely new explanation: the body temperature of small birds can increase by more than 4°C to exceed 45°C when they are feeding their young. Larger broods would require more work, resul

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/small-birds-almost-overheat-while-feeding-their-young - 2024-10-31

As a student at Lund University, you can apply for a travel grant from the Crafoord Foundation irrespective of which faculty you are studying at. The planned length of your stay determines which of two grants you can apply for. Shortcuts to page content:About the grantHow to applyAfter you have sent in your application  Contact information External Relations Crafoord travel grant team Email: crafo

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/current-students/international-opportunities/grants-and-scholarships-studies-and-traineeships-abroad/crafoord-foundation-travel-grant - 2024-10-31

For just over 350 years, Lund University has educated students and created new knowledge. Below is a history of how it developed from a small provincial academy into a major international university with world-leading research. Lund University was inaugurated on 28 January 1668, on King Charles’ name day. In the 19th. century, this is what the inauguration procession is believed to have looked lik

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about-university/university-glance/history-lund-university - 2024-10-31

Published 22 May 2018 James Surmeier (Photo: Kennet Ruona) James Surmeier, professor at Northwestern University, recently visited Lund University where he gave the 2018 Segerfalk Lecture. In this interview, he talks about how technology is helping brain research to advance, about almost giving up research altogether – and the discovery that could slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease. James 

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/exciting-times-brain-researchers - 2024-10-31

Published 23 May 2018 Photo: Mikael Risedal What makes for a successful transition to a low-carbon energy system? Local involvement, perceived fairness and information sharing, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden. The researchers studied two cases, one in Samsø (Denmark) and one in Feldheim (Germany) of successful implementation of low-carbon energy systems. Samsø is the world

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-local-communities-can-transition-sustainable-energy-systems - 2024-10-31

Published 24 May 2018 Photo: Pål Axel Olsson Since 2012, the EU project Sandlife has worked to restore open sandy habitats in southern Sweden. Overgrown environmentally-protected areas, known as Natura 2000 areas, on sandy land in Skåne, Halland and Öland, have been opened up to become more accessible to both the public and rare plants and animals. The first results are now being presented and the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/biodiversity-increased-after-open-sandy-habitat-restoration - 2024-10-31

Published 25 May 2018 Sara Gabrielsson and Bertha Mhepela (Photo: Ann Åkerman) In Tanzania, girls on their period avoid going to school, something that affects their opportunities for education. A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the menstrual cup could be a step towards better school attendance, and a life with more freedom. As a young woman in Tanzania, having your period is a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/menstrual-cups-could-help-girls-attend-school-tanzania - 2024-10-31

Processing of personal data at Lund University The University processes personal data within and on behalf of the University in its capacity as an educational provider and research institution and in connection with external engagement with wider society. All processing of personal data at the University aims to support this assignment. The University applies the General Data Protection Regulation

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Published 29 May 2018 Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) Photo: Marcus Stensmyr A new doctoral thesis from Lund University in Sweden shows how fruit flies use their sense of smell and humidity to find food, avoid dehydration and discover the best place to lay their eggs – in overripe marula fruits. Faeces from herbivores are also suitable, but the flies reject carnivore excrement. Summer is high

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fruit-flies-fear-lion-faeces - 2024-10-31

Published 30 May 2018 The EU biofuel regulation does not guarantee a reduced climate impact – nor does it address the core issue of substantially reducing transport emissions, according to a new doctoral thesis from Lund University in Sweden. “On a smaller scale, biofuels can be a good alternative for public transport, but we cannot solve the climate issue by simply replacing fossil fuels with bio

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/eu-biofuel-regulation-not-sustainable-long-term - 2024-10-31

Published 31 May 2018 Photo: Josefin Starkhammar Millions of years of evolutionary fine-tuning have made dolphins phenomenally good at using echolocation to orient themselves, find food and communicate with one another. But how do they actually do it? New research from Lund University in Sweden shows that they emit two intertwined ultrasound beam components at different frequencies – and with slig

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/dolphin-algorithm-could-lead-better-medical-ultrasounds - 2024-10-31

Published 1 June 2018 This year, Sweden celebrates a century of democracy and fair elections are seen as self-evident. How did our democracy develop and how did we get rid of election fraud? A political scientist at Lund University in Sweden has now examined the country’s election fraud history and its underlying causes – from 1719 to the early 1900s. The conclusion? Bureaucrats and political part

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-sweden-became-one-worlds-most-stable-democracies - 2024-10-31

Published 4 June 2018 What would happen if all petrol and diesel-powered vehicles were removed from a smaller European city? Up to 4% of all premature deaths could be prevented, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. The researchers used Malmö, Sweden, as a case study to calculate the health costs of inner city traffic. Every year, over 400,000 people in Europe die prematurely du

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/health-effect-air-pollution-traffic - 2024-10-31