By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 12 August 2020 Martin Rey The question of how small, dwarf galaxies have sustained the formation of new stars over the course of the Universe has long confounded the world’s astronomers. An international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has found that dormant small galaxies can slowly accumulate gas over many bill

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/how-stars-form-smallest-galaxies - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Sune Svanberg) - published 6 July 2020 Terra cotta soldiers guarding the tomb of emperor Qin, China. Photo: Stockphoto According to  2200 years old records, the so far never opened tomb of emperor Qin should contain large amounts of liquid mercury, forming lakes and rivers of a large-scale “map” of China, which had been unified by him.  Recently, the rese

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/mercury-emission-terracotta-army-emperor-qins-mausoleum-xian-measured-lidar - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Webmaster) - published 6 December 2019 Anders Johansen Anders Johansen, professor in Astronomy at Lund University, has been chosen to be Wallenberg Scholar. The Wallenberg Scholar program focuses on Sweden's leading senior researchers. It was implemented because researchers need long-term funding without the distraction of pressure to secure external gran

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/anders-johansen-has-been-chosen-be-wallenberg-scholar - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 25 January 2021 Photo by Unsplash Theories were introduced as far back as the 1960s about the possible existence of superheavy elements. Their most long-lived nuclei could give rise to a so-called “island of stability” far beyond the element uranium. However, a new study, led by nuclear physicists at Lund University, shows that

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/nuclear-physicists-voyage-towards-mythical-island - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 11 June 2021 Researchers Birger Schmitz (left) and Fredrik Terfelt (right) dissolved almost ten tonnes of sedimentary rocks from ancient seabeds. Photo by Johan Joelsson. For the first time, a unique study conducted at Lund University in Sweden has tracked the meteorite flux to Earth over the past 500 million years. Contrary to

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/earths-meteorite-impacts-over-past-500-million-years-tracked - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Webmaster) - published 17 October 2019 Martin Leijsne. Photo: Kennet Ruona Martin Leijnse, researcher in solid state physics at Lund University in Sweden, has received a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) synergy grant worth EUR 1.5 million. He shares the total grant amount of EUR 10 million with three researchers from the University of Copenhage

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-grant-research-unusual-quantum-state - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Webmaster) - published 9 September 2019 Maria Messing Associate Professor Maria Messing received the Smoluchowski Award August 27, 2019, during the Annual European Aerosol Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden. The Smoluchowski Award, named after the physicist Marian Smoluchowski (1872 – 1917) is awarded annually to one or two young researchers (under 40 years

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/smoluchowski-award-maria-messing - 2025-07-11

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 8 September 2021 Physics researchers Peter Samuelsson, on the left, and Ville Maisi show the small brass component that contains connectors, microwave circuits and nanowires. PHOTO: SIMON WOZNY In a pioneering nanoexperiment, a research team in Lund has succeeded in constructing a new and very effecient microwave p

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/successful-experiment-microwaves-could-result-better-quantum-computers - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Webmaster) - published 4 December 2019 Kimberly Dick Thelander. Photo Kimberly Dick Thelander has been named Wallenberg scholar. The Wallenberg Scholar program focuses on Sweden’s leading senior researchers. It was implemented because researchers need long-term funding without the distraction of pressure to secure external grants in order to carry out wor

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/kimberly-dick-thelander-named-wallenberg-scholar - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 29 October 2021 While in Skåne, Swedish Minister of EU Affairs Hans Dahlgren and his entourage particularly asked for visiting NanoLund – and had a close look at the Lund Nano Lab. Photo: Evelina Lindén The semiconductor shortage was one reason why Swedish Minister of EU Affairs Hans Dahlgren recently visited NanoLund and the L

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/minister-eu-affairs-paid-nanolund-visit - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Webmaster) - published 5 December 2019 Jan Marcus Dahlström The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has announced 29 new Wallenberg Academy Fellows. Jan Marcus Dahlström from Lund University is one of them. The Wallenberg Academy Fellowship is a five-year grant that provides the young researchers with opportunities to make important scientific breakthrou

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/jan-marcus-dahlstrom-becomes-wallenberg-academy-fellow - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 22 December 2021 Arsenic and bismuth atoms on surface terraces of a GaAs nanowire. The red structures are GaBi islands. Figure: Johan Knutsson / Lund University / Nature Communications Site-selected crystal material synthesis at the atomic scale has been a long-standing challenge. NanoLundians Rainer Timm and Yi Liu use nanowire

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/novel-nanostructure-formation-atomic-scale-precision - 2025-07-11

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 22 December 2021 The new study could be useful for future pandemics. ILLUSTRATION: UNSPLASH Using a mathematical model, researchers have been able to link confirmed covid-19 cases with intensive care admissions and deaths. The model, which allows prediction and planning of health care burden, could be valuable duri

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/mathematical-model-useful-pandemic-planning - 2025-07-11

By jonas [dot] andersson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jonas Andersson) - published 10 February 2022 Anne L'Huillier. The Wolf Prize in Physics has been awarded to Anne L'Huillier at the Department of Physics, Lund University, Paul Corkum at the University of Ottawa, and Ferenc Krausz at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. They were selec

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/professor-anne-lhuillier-awarded-wolf-prize-physics - 2025-07-11

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 26 April 2022 Illustration by Claudio Verdozzi Research at Lund University in Sweden has found a new way to create nano-sized magnetic particles using ultrafast laser light pulses. The discovery could pave the way for new and more energy-efficient technical components and become useful in the quantum computers of t

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/researchers-create-exotic-magnetic-structures-laser-light - 2025-07-11

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 18 October 2023 Filipe Pereira (R) coordinates the research project which is allocated 33 million from the EIC. Together with Fábio Fiúza Rosa (L), he is also one of the founders of the company Asgard Therapeutics, partner in the EIC project. Photo: Asgard Therapeutics An international research project led from Lund Un

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/enemy-friend-33-million-reprogramming-cancer-cells - 2025-07-11

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 19 October 2023 Cancer researcher Harald Stenmark, professor at the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, is the recipient of Eric K. Fernström Nordic Prize 2023. Photo: Øystein Horgmo. Cancer researcher Harald Stenmark, professor at the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, is the recipient of this year’

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/eric-k-fernstrom-nordic-prize-2023-awarded-cancer-researcher - 2025-07-11

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 6 November 2023 Diabetes researcher Rashmi Prasad at Lund University has been awarded this year's Medeon Scholarship for her research on the inheritance of type 2 diabetes and why the disease is inherited from the mother to a greater extent. Photo: Petra Olsson. How do heritability and the fetal environment affect the risk

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/research-inherited-type-2-diabetes-awarded - 2025-07-11

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 7 November 2023 Tony Ingesson and David Gisselsson Nord. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter David Gisselsson Nord and Tony Ingesson both love spy novels and have a nerdy interest in history. Their shared curiosity resulted in an interdisciplinary collaboration about how it might be possible to inspire smarter cancer treatment with

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/cancer-researcher-and-intelligence-expert - 2025-07-11

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 24 November 2023 Image: iStock/Zanuck Breath-holding spells are common in young children and are benign. Yet children often undergo unnecessary diagnostic interventions when seeking medical care. This is because there are no national or international guidelines on how to assess children in these cases. A team of resear

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/children-breath-holding-spells-undergo-unnecessary-diagnostic-interventions - 2025-07-11