Published 20 December 2023 R. Michael Rich and Harriet Bulkeley. Photo: private / Henja Kooijman. One is an American astronomer who has charted the innermost parts of the Milky Way using spectroscopy, the other a British professor of Geography who has made a name for herself through her interdisciplinary climate research. R. Michael Rich and Harriet Bulkeley have been appointed honorary doctors at

https://www.science.lu.se/article/world-leading-astrophysicist-and-interdisciplinary-geographer-are-new-honorary-doctors-science - 2025-04-19

Published 2 January 2024 Dean Per Persson, Deputy Dean Karin Rengefors and Vice-Dean Charlotta Turner have now taken office. Get to know them better through the interviews below that were conducted in the spring of 2023, in connection with the election. In addition to the three mentioned, Karin Hall will have an assignment as Vice-Dean during 2024. Shortcuts to the interviewsInterview with Dean Pe

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Published 9 February 2024 The Porsmose man from the Neolithic period, killed by two arrows with bone tips. Photo: National Museum of Denmark. 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 University in Sweden, among others. The results, which are contrary to prevai

https://www.science.lu.se/article/scandinavias-first-farmers-slaughtered-hunter-gatherer-population - 2025-04-19

Published 26 February 2024 Lina Eklund is one of the researchers in the international team working to analyse satellite images of the destruction of Gaza. Photo: Johan Joelsson. 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 Hamas is over, questions of possible war c

https://www.science.lu.se/article/destruction-gaza-monitored-space - 2025-04-19

Published 7 March 2024 Part of the simulated universe. In the center, a galaxy is born through gas that later transforms into stars. The whole process takes billions of years but is simulated in just a few months by supercomputers. Photo: The AGORA Collaboration. Astronomers can use supercomputers to simulate the formation of galaxies from the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago to the present day. Bu

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-insights-how-galaxies-are-formed - 2025-04-19

Published 12 April 2024 Sharp-sighted bristle worm. Photo: Michael Bok. 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 active at night. Now, a research team has succeeded in locating an Italian worm colony and is able to confirm that the worm has completely unique vision

https://www.science.lu.se/article/marine-worm-outstanding-vision-fascinates-researchers - 2025-04-19

Published 16 April 2024 Lund researchers Thomas Pugh and Raimund Muscheler from the Faculty of Science have been awarded the ERC Advanced Grant. Photo: Private/Kenneth Ruona. 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 million each over a five-year period to study his

https://www.science.lu.se/article/two-lund-researchers-receive-prestigious-eu-grant - 2025-04-19

Published 18 April 2024 Gustavo Jasso Ahuja is one of 18 mathematicians to receive support from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Photo: Private. 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 programme. The grant will be used to recruit a researcher from over

https://www.science.lu.se/article/maths-researchers-receive-funding-study-mysterious-algebras - 2025-04-19

Published 25 April 2024 The team during field work in northern Sweden. Photo: Geerte Fälthammar-de Jong. 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 recently burnt boreal forests and their ability to absorb carbon dioxide. The boreal forests form a single biome that sp

https://www.science.lu.se/article/unique-field-study-shows-how-climate-change-affects-fire-impacted-forests - 2025-04-19

Published 14 May 2024 The Hulk-like lizard. Photo: Javier Abalos. 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 large, bright green and aggressive common wall lizard found near the Mediterranean. They discovered that a unique cell type might have played a key role in

https://www.science.lu.se/article/incredible-hulk-lizard-provides-clues-understanding-evolution - 2025-04-19

Published 14 May 2024 Photo: Emma Kritzberg. 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 own carbon footprint? A new study carried out jointly by Lund University and the University of Lausanne in Switzerland shows that some of them use up half their annual carbon

https://www.science.lu.se/article/conferences-make-scientists-climate-transgressors - 2025-04-19

Published 16 August 2024 In the study, each bumblebee had a small tag attached to its back so that the researchers could distinguish the various individuals when testing their navigation ability. Photo: Rickesh Patel. 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 resu

https://www.science.lu.se/article/bumblebees-sense-direction-rivals-humans - 2025-04-19

Published 26 August 2024 Photo: Diego Cambiaso, CC BY-SA 2.0. 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 study conducted by researchers at Lund University, Sweden. The results run counter to the assumption that growing up in the countryside automatically increases

https://www.science.lu.se/article/socioeconomics-shape-childrens-connection-nature-more-where-they-live - 2025-04-19

Published 5 September 2024 Øystein Opedal, associate senior lecturer at the Department of Biology, has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. Congratulations, Øystein! Can you tell us a little about your project?“The project aims to better understand how plants adapt to new pollination environments, such as declining pollinator populations or local changes in the diversity of pollinator species. We k

https://www.science.lu.se/article/biologist-receives-erc-starting-grant - 2025-04-19

Published 5 September 2024 Photo: Melanie Karlsson. 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 University suggests. After thirty years, the plant species richness around the cultivated crop had doubled on organic farms compared to conventional farms. It is well kno

https://www.science.lu.se/article/organic-farms-had-doubled-plant-diversity-only-over-time - 2025-04-19

Published 13 September 2024 Illustration of an exoplanet. Image: ESO/M. Kornmesser. 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, shows that planetary systems can be considerably more complex than researchers have previously thought. The newly discovered planet TOI-1408

https://www.science.lu.se/article/researchers-discover-space-oddity-exoplanet-moving-mysterious-ways - 2025-04-19

Published 24 September 2024 Film: Johan Nyman. 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 are able to move large dung balls across difficult obstacles. However, same-sex attempts to do the same always ended in aggressive fights. Dung beetles live in and on animal

https://www.science.lu.se/article/beetles-cooperate-tricky-dung-moves - 2025-04-19

Published 11 October 2024 Grazing zooplankton, daphnia, which are an important source of food for fish, were found to be particularly vulnerable. Photo: Erik Selander/Lund University. 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 show that some species are being wi

https://www.science.lu.se/article/grazing-zooplankton-severely-impacted-nanoplastic-particles - 2025-04-19

Published 15 October 2024 Brittle stars clinging to mussels. These specimen are about the same size as the Silurian echinoderms named after metal bands. Photo: Lea D. Numberger-Thuy. 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 Silurian Period (around 444 to 419 mi

https://www.science.lu.se/article/extinct-brittle-stars-named-after-death-metal-bands - 2025-04-19

Published 24 October 2024 SHREC the detector is inspected by Pavel Golubev. Photo: Dirk Rudolph. 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 the heaviest in the world so far: number 120. The search for new elements comes from the dream of finding a variant that is

https://www.science.lu.se/article/successful-experiment-paves-way-new-element - 2025-04-19