By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 23 August 2018 I-Ju Chen, Yang Chen and Xulu Zeng are all on the track to find better ways of harvesting sunlight using solar cells made of nanowires. Photo: Kennet Ruona Increased use of solar cells in the future requires higher efficiency and lower production costs. Innovative research from the interdisciplinary ce

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sunhunters-knowledge-collect-light - 2025-05-01

By Pia [dot] romare [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Pia Romare) - published 23 August 2018 Image credit: Greasy Faced Dial by Shane Gorski, via Flickr (licenced under a CC BY-ND 2.0 licence) Cycling becomes a lot harder if you don’t oil the bicycle chain! Similarly, you can’t cut metal, turn metal on a lathe or press sheet metal without lubricant. Previously in engineering works there was a flow of lu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/more-efficient-lubricants-using-sawdust - 2025-05-01

By Pia [dot] romare [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Pia Romare) - published 23 August 2018 How did we end up here? What do we do to get out of it? In climate research, it is important to understand how the world works if we are to change our behaviour and prevent future catastrophes. Researchers use mathematical formulas to try and visualise reality, in order to find out what changes we need to make.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mathematic-visualize-climate-changes - 2025-05-01

By Pia [dot] romare [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Pia Romare) - published 23 August 2018 Small sensors do a big job. Increasing numbers of things can now be controlled and measured, detected and regulated via small sensors on machines, in nature or in and on our bodies. These sensors gather and transmit large amounts of information via wireless communication, while requiring very little electrical p

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/tiny-savings-big-results-energy-efficient-electronics - 2025-05-01

By Noomi [dot] Egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 23 August 2018 The adverse effects of dust storms on health, the environment, and the economy led Hossein Hashemi and his research colleagues to start up a new research project. Photo: Kennet Ruona Dust storms used to be a weather phenomenon associated with aridity and desert. This has now changed, and today they are occurring

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/eye-dust-storm - 2025-05-01

Published 23 August 2018 Agriculture and forestry are two sectors that are often considered separately. In fact, they are closely connected. Both from an ecological and an economic perspective, they must be considered together”, says Professor Yann Clough. Photo: Kennet Ruona Research and society in close cooperation: that is the basis for Farm2Forest, a project aiming to produce evidence guiding

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/farm2forest-sustainable-agriculture-biobased-future - 2025-05-01

Published 23 February 2018 Edith Hammar, Johan Ekroos and Cecilia Akselsson deal with issues related to ecosystem services and biodiversity in a changing climate.Photo: Kennet Ruona In recent years, ‘ecosystem services’ has become an increasingly common concept within the research community, as well as in municipalities, public authorities and industry. In simple terms, ecosystem services can be d

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/human-and-nature-symbiosis - 2025-05-01

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 23 February 2018 When everyday life is not recognisable, when conversation is silenced, when memories disappear. Alzheimer’s disease is contracted by 60 000 people in Sweden annually and accounts for 60 per cent of all types of dementia disease. There is no cure, but research has come a long way in diagnosing the dis

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/pursuit-early-signs-alzheimers-disease - 2025-05-01

Published 4 February 2019 A dung beetle rolling its ball under an artificial moonlit sky. (Photo: Chris Collingridge) Of all nocturnal animals, only dung beetles can hold their course using polarized moonlight. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now shown that the beetles can use polarized light when its signal strength is weak,which may allow them to find their bearings when artificial

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/dung-beetles-navigate-better-under-full-moon - 2025-05-01

By Noomi [dot] Egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 8 February 2019 Shovels, brushes and dusty excavations sites? For many people this is what comes to mind when they think of archeology. But the field has developed at an unprecedented pace during the last few decades, and now includes tools and methods such as 3D modelling, spatial analysis and even laser cameras mounted on dr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/archaeological-finds-without-digging - 2025-05-01

By catrin [dot] jakobsson [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Catrin Jakobsson) - published 26 January 2019 The fact that smoking is the most common cause of lung cancer has been known for a long time. However, ten to fifteen per cent of those affected have never smoked. Researchers believe that air pollution can also cause lung cancer. Each year approximately four thousand people in Sweden are diagnosed

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lung-cancer-early-diagnosis-leads-better-targeted-treatment - 2025-05-01

Published 13 February 2019 There are significant environmental and economic benefits to be achieved if there is a better understanding of ‘dangerous Less waste. Better quality. Reduced environmental impact. A safer work environment. By understanding burr formation, that is, of how much undesirable material is formed, in connection with cutting in the manufacturing industry, for example, it is poss

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/understanding-burr-formation-can-provide-competitive-edge - 2025-05-01

Published 13 February 2019 Greya politella and Greya obscura on a Lithophragma cymbalaria. (Photo: Magne Friberg) A research team that includes researchers from Lund University in Sweden, the University of California Santa Cruz, Cornell University and the University of São Paulo, has discovered that the scent of flowers of the same species can be completely different - despite growing only some10

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/scent-flower-varies-locally - 2025-05-01

By Pia [dot] romare [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Pia Romare) - published 14 February 2019 One step along the road is for doctors to become better at finding patients with elevated blood lipids who are most at risk of falling ill with cardiovascular disease. Heart attacks and strokes are the most common causes of death in the world. One of the biggest risk factors for these diseases consists of elev

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/can-new-methods-help-doctors-find-high-risk-patients - 2025-05-01

Published 15 February 2019 Can the singing-voice last for life? For some people, the voice quality deteriorates as early as in their fifties, while others sound great well into old age. Nobody really knows why it is so and there is no scientific evidence to back it up. A unique research project will now be initiated by Symf (The Swedish Union of Professional Musicians) and the Göteborg Opera in co

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unique-research-aging-voices - 2025-05-01

Published 26 February 2019 The School of Industrial Design (Photo: Emilia Claesson) The Lund University School of Industrial Design has been partially funded by the IKEA Foundation since its inception 20 years ago. The IKEA Foundation has now donated an additional EUR 33 million to the school. The donation is one of the largest since Lund University was founded in 1666. “The significance of design

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-receives-historic-eur-33-million-donation-ikea-foundation - 2025-05-01

Published 4 March 2019 Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s most widespread infectious disease. Each year, close to two million people die of the disease and the number of antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis bacteria is increasing. There is a considerable need for alternatives to antibiotics. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, and at Imperial College in UK, believe they have a new pharmaceutical

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/peptide-derived-fungi-kills-tb-bacteria - 2025-05-01

Published 5 March 2019 Olov Andersson, KI (Photo: Ulf Sirborn) In his research in zebrafish, Olov Andersson of Karolinska Institutet strives to generate insulin-producing cells and new treatment methods for diabetes. This has led to his selection as a recipient of the Leif Groop award for outstanding research, awarded by the Lund University Diabetes Centre and sponsored by Novo Nordisk Sweden. “It

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prize-awarded-research-zebrafish-could-lead-new-treatments-diabetes - 2025-05-01

Published 5 March 2019 The Swedish-Egyptian mission at Gebel el-Silsila in Egypt, led by Dr. Maria Nilsson and John Ward from Lund University, has discovered a New Kingdom sandstone workshop and several sculptures during their excavations. "This discovery is unique, as it is the first intact ram-headed sphinx found in a workshop, together with a cobra, and it reveals the approximate size of the sp

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-kingdom-workshop-and-ram-headed-sphinxes-excavated-gebel-el-silsila - 2025-05-01

Published 6 March 2019 Pallid swift (Photo: Davide D'Amico) Nearly 100 species of swift are completely adapted to life in the air. That is the conclusion of researchers at Lund University in Sweden after having studied a third species and observing that some individuals did not land for over three months. “They eat and sleep while they are airborne. This is something that researchers have believed

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/swifts-are-born-eat-and-sleep-air - 2025-05-01