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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 - 2024-11-11

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 - 2024-11-11

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 - 2024-11-11

Published 4 June 2018 Cancer cells in children tend to develop by following four main trajectories – and two of them are linked to relapse of the disease, research led by Lund University in Sweden shows. The four strategies can occur simultaneously in a single tumour, according to the study that is now published in Nature Genetics. The researchers mapped out the genome of cancer cells from more th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/childhood-cancer-four-survival-strategies-tumour-cells - 2024-11-11

Published 5 June 2018 Over 50% of the global population lives in cities, and those cities all share the same pressing challenge: how can they provide economic prosperity and social cohesion in a sustainable way? One way of finding answers to that question is urban living labs, a type of testbed where social and technical innovations are tested in real time in an urban setting.“Urban living labs ar

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/book-release-urban-living-labs-experimenting-city-futures - 2024-11-11

Published 5 June 2018 Lars Jonung and Fredrik NG Andersson Iceland should abandon the flexible exchange rate of the króna as well as their present policy of inflation targeting – in favour of a currency board with a truly fixed exchange rate of the króna to the euro. The euro should be used as the reserve currency of Iceland. This recommendation is given in a new report, Lessons for Iceland from t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/iceland-case-currency-board-euro-reserve - 2024-11-11

Published 7 June 2018 Tommy Shih The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, STINT, now makes a national, major effort to promote Swedish higher education, research and innovation in China as well as to become an academic knowledge hub in relation to China. Tommy Shih, associate professor at Lund University School of Economics and Management, has been app

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/national-initiative-academic-collaborations-china - 2024-11-11

Published 11 June 2018 Data from more than 400 000 patients in different countries will be used to increase knowledge and improve treatment of prostate cancer. This is all taking place within the international big data for better outcome (BD4BO) project PIONEER, in which Lund University has a prominent role. Despite intensive research, there are many unanswered questions concerning prostate cancer

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prostate-cancer-questions-could-be-answered-through-big-data-project - 2024-11-11

Published 12 June 2018 Diadema africanum (Photo: José Carlos Hernández) Sea urchins lack eyes, but can see with their tentacle-like tube feet instead, previous research has indicated. Now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have tested their vision in a new study, and shown that while sea urchins have fairly low resolution vision - it is good enough to fulfil their basic needs. “Sea urchins

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sea-urchins-see-their-feet - 2024-11-11

Published 14 June 2018 Bombardier beetle (Photo: Swedish Biomimetics 3000) Researchers at Lund University Sweden working in collaboration with Swedish Biomimetics 3000 have developed a new technique that more efficiently removes harmful oxides of nitrogen, NOx, from the exhaust of diesel engines. The new technology applies a more efficient injector into existing emission control systems currently

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/insect-phenomenon-inspires-new-clean-diesel-technology - 2024-11-11

Published 20 June 2018 Carbonised germinated grains found at Uppåkra, Sweden (Photo: Mikael Larsson) Archaeologists at Lund University in Sweden have found carbonised germinated grains showing that malt was produced for beer brewing as early as the Iron Age in the Nordic region. The findings made in Uppåkra in southern Sweden indicate a large-scale production of beer, possibly for feasting and tra

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/swedes-have-been-brewing-beer-iron-age-new-evidence-confirms - 2024-11-11

Published 20 June 2018 Both Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degrees at the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University have been labelled as “success stories” by the European Commission. The Master’s programme in Fire Safety Engineering (IMFSE) already received this label of quality last summer and the Master’s in Food Innovation and Product Design (FIPDes) recently received the same distinction from

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/two-joint-masters-programmes-engineering-are-labelled-success-stories - 2024-11-11

 Francesco del Nero from Italy Why did you choose this programme at Lund University/the Malmö Academy of Music?"I studied piano and composition in Italy and after I finished my studies, I decided to have an experience abroad. As I wanted to continue with composition, I looked for composers I liked. I found that Luca Francesconi was a professor here and I applied. Another reason was that this progr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-kamkd/what-francesco-says-about-masters-music-performance-composition-diploma-excellence - 2024-11-11

Published 21 June 2018 Bogong moth A major international study led by researchers from Lund University in Sweden has proven for the first time that certain nocturnally migrating insects can explore and navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field. Until now, the ability to steer flight using an internal magnetic compass was only known in nocturnally migrating birds. WATCH: The incredible journey of t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-insects-also-migrate-using-earths-magnetic-field - 2024-11-11

Published 25 June 2018 The study provides a clearer idea of how molecules of this type, known as ion transporters, reduce the percentage of cancer stem cells in a cell population. A team of researchers at Lund University in Sweden has developed a fluorescent variant of a molecule that inhibits cancer stem cells. Capturing images of when the molecule enters a cell has enabled the researchers, using

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fluorescent-molecules-reveal-how-cancer-stem-cells-are-selectively-inhibited - 2024-11-11

Behrooz from Iran"After completing my Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture in my hometown Mashhad, Iran, I decided to pursue my academic goal by studying a Master’s programme in Architecture at Lund University.As an international student, I had the privilege of connecting with other students from around the world, collaborating and experiencing different perspectives within the field. Midway through

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-tamar/what-behrooz-says-about-masters-architecture - 2024-11-11

Stephanie from Indonesia – AlumnaWhy did you decide to apply for the Master’s Programme in Energy-Efficient and Environmental Building Design at Lund University?"I have been interested in and passionate about sustainable architecture since my Bachelor's studies in Indonesia. I took some courses in green architecture and building physics and they really challenged me into taking a Master’s degree i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-taemb/what-stephanie-says-about-masters-energy-efficient-and-environmental-building-design - 2024-11-11

Marcin from PolandWhy did you decide to study at Lund University?"I decided to study at Lund University because of my prior studies in Sweden. I did my Erasmus exchange at Blekinge Tekniska Högskola in Karlskrona and I loved the study system in Sweden. It offers great support to students. Teachers are there for the students, not the other way around. When I went back to Poland, I knew I wanted to

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-tasud/what-marcin-says-about-masters-sustainable-urban-design - 2024-11-11

Published 26 June 2018 Jan and Åsa Söderberg (Photo: Håkan Röjder) A prize worth SEK 1 million for outstanding and groundbreaking research, and a full day dedicated to popular science and interdisciplinary lectures in economics. This is the result of the generous donation from the Jan and Åsa Söderberg family to the School of Economics and Management at Lund University, Sweden. “For several years,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-international-prize-lund-university-school-economics-and-management - 2024-11-11

Published 6 July 2018 Barrels used in the experiment (Photo: Gábor Horváth) Susanne Åkesson, a biologist at Lund University in Sweden, refutes the theory that zebras have striped fur to stay cool in the hot sun. That hypothesis is wrong, she and her colleagues show in a study recently published in Scientific Reports. There has been an ongoing discussion among researchers, dating back to Darwin, on

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/stripes-may-be-cool-they-dont-cool-zebras-down - 2024-11-11