Published 30 October 2019 (Photo: iStock) Endurance running is often seen as a welcome escape from everyday life. But extraordinary experiences, such as running ultra-marathons, are not untouched by the competitive nature of contemporary consumer culture, a new thesis from Lund University in Sweden argues. The at times romanticized notion of experiencing complete freedom through running, co-exists

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/what-attracts-people-endurance-running - 2025-06-01

Published 31 October 2019 Albert Salehi (Photo: Sara Liedholm) Insulin which is released by pancreatic beta-cells is the main regulator of blood sugar. Previous and current studies by a research group at Lund University in Sweden have identified around hundred different receptors on the surface of the beta-cells, with a diverse functional impact on the beta-cells. Now researchers at Lund Universit

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/key-mechanism-insulin-release-cholesterol-metabolite-found - 2025-06-01

Published 7 November 2019 Black hole (Illustration: LL Calçada/M Kornmesser/ESO) An international research team have discovered a peculiar object circling a red giant star. The celestial body is invisible but still has a strong impact on the star’s orbit. With the help of data simulations carried out at Lund University, the researchers have now been able to establish that the mysterious companion

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-researchers-have-tracked-black-hole-near-red-giant-star - 2025-06-01

Published 11 November 2019 Controlling smartphones by a simple swipe of your hand is the latest innovation to be introduced to phone owners. However, radar sensors with higher accuracy would take the concept from gimmick to practical usefulness, according to researchers at Lund University in Sweden. They have developed a method that could detect much finer gestures – while also using a lot less po

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-unique-technology-will-make-gesture-control-more-accurate - 2025-06-01

Published 12 November 2019 An international study led from Lund University in Sweden shows that 30 per cent of the energy in a certain type of light-absorbing iron molecule disappears in a previously unknown manner. By closing this loophole, the researchers hope to contribute to the development of more efficient solar cells using this iron-based solar cell. The sun is an unlimited source of pure a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/iron-based-solar-cells-track-becoming-more-efficient - 2025-06-01

Published 13 November 2019 Joan Yuan (Photo: Åsa Hansdotter) Directly after birth, the immune system completes production of a subtype of antibody-producing immune cells, B-1, that are to last for a lifetime. No more B1-cells are formed after that point. However, these cells are self-reactive – they produce not only antibodies against foreign substances, but also against the body’s own substances,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-self-reactive-immune-cells-are-allowed-develop - 2025-06-01

Published 26 November 2019 The race: Vasaloppet Half as many diagnosed with depression, a delayed manifestation of Parkinson’s, a reduced risk of developing vascular dementia - but not Alzheimer’s. These connections were discovered by researchers when they compared 200 000 people who had participated in a long-distance cross-country ski race between 1989 and 2010 with a matched cohort of the gener

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/skiers-had-lower-incidence-depression-and-vascular-dementia-not-alzheimers - 2025-06-01

Published 27 November 2019 Maj Rundlöf Not all neonicotinoid insecticides have negative effects on bees, according to researchers at Lund University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Their new study indicates that the use of certain neonicotinoids could benefit bumblebees and pollination. In a field study, the researchers Maj Rundlöf, Lund University, and Ola Lundin, the Swedish

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-use-certain-neonicotinoids-could-benefit-bumblebees-new-study-finds - 2025-06-01

Published 3 December 2019 Jan Marcus Dahlström, Vladislava Stoyanova and Per Anders Rudling The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has announced 29 new Wallenberg Academy Fellows. Three of them come from Lund University. The five-year grant provides the young researchers with opportunities to make important scientific breakthroughs by providing long-term research funding in Sweden. Vladislava St

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/three-researchers-lund-university-become-wallenberg-academy-fellows-2019 - 2025-06-01

Published 4 December 2019 Skylark (Photo: Richard Ubels) Researchers in Sweden and the UK have discovered the largest known avian sex chromosome. The giant chromosome was created when four chromosomes fused together into one, and has been found in two species of lark. “This was an unexpected discovery, as birds are generally considered to have very stable genetic material with well-preserved chrom

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/record-size-sex-chromosome-found-two-bird-species - 2025-06-01

Published 4 December 2019 Photo: Mikael Risedal An international research team has called for a more sober discourse around climate change prospects, following an extensive reassessment of climate change’s progress and its mitigation. They argue that climate change models have understated potential warming’s speed and runaway potential, while the models that relate climate science to consequences,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/energy-advances-open-door-more-aggressive-climate-policies - 2025-06-01

Published 5 December 2019 Photo: Mostphotos Parasport continues to grow worldwide. A new thesis from Lund University in Sweden shows how Paralympic athletes run the risk of both being injured by strenuous training as well as being affected by injuries and illness due to their impairment. The results indicate that the incidence is almost twice as high when compared with similar studies of athletes

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/injuries-and-illness-are-big-concerns-paralympic-athletes-unique-study-reveals - 2025-06-01

Published 9 December 2019 Pauline Mattsson has interviewed Nobel Prize winners in physiology or medicine. ”It is exciting for the winners to be like rock stars for a week. Many recalled how well they were received during their visit to Sweden,” she says. Photo: Istock There is no magic formula for who is going to win a Nobel Prize, but there are many common denominators among Nobel Prize winners,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nobel-prize-winners-rock-stars-week - 2025-06-01

Published 10 December 2019 Filipe Pereira (Photo: Kennet Ruona) The European Research Council today announced the winners of its latest Consolidator Grant competition: 301 top scientists and scholars across Europe. Funding for these researchers, part of the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, is worth in total EUR 600 million. Filipe Pereira at Lund University in Sweden is one of the 8

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prestigious-erc-grant-innovative-immunotherapy-research - 2025-06-01

Published 11 December 2019 Lyckebyån River (Photo: Eva Steiner) By analysing almost daily water samples taken from the same river from 1940 until today, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have confirmed their hypothesis that the browning of lakes is primarily due to the increase in coniferous forests, as well as rainfall and sulphur deposits. The study was carried out on the Lyckebyån River

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unique-data-confirms-why-water-turns-brown - 2025-06-01

Published 13 December 2019 An illustration of when a virus shell reaches the dopamine-producing nerve cells that die in Parkinson's disease (Illustration: Tomas Björklund) Neuroscientists at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new technology that engineers the shell of a virus to deliver gene therapy to the exact cell type in the body that needs to be treated. The researchers believe that t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/high-tech-method-uniquely-targeted-gene-therapy-developed - 2025-06-01

Published 16 December 2019 Illustration: Mostphotos Despite creative efforts to tackle it, belief in conspiracy theories, alternative facts and fake news show no sign of abating. This is clearly a huge problem, as seen when it comes to climate change, vaccines and expertise in general – with anti-scientific attitudes increasingly influencing politics. So why can’t we stop such views from spreading

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/conspiracy-theories-how-belief-rooted-evolution-not-ignorance - 2025-06-01

Published 17 December 2019 Céline Fernandez (Photo: Sara Liedholm) Using lipidomics, a technique that measures the composition of blood lipids at a molecular level, and machine learning, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified a blood lipid profile that improves the possibility to assess, several years in advance, the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The blood lipid profile can

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/blood-lipid-profile-predicts-risk-type-2-diabetes-better-obesity - 2025-06-01

Published 17 December 2019 Photo: Unsplash A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that plant-eating insects affect forest ecosystems considerably more than previously thought. Among other things, the insects are a factor in the leaching of nutrients from soil and increased emissions of carbon dioxide. The researchers also establish that the temperature may rise as a result of an increase

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/plant-eating-insects-disrupt-ecosystems-and-contribute-climate-change - 2025-06-01

Published 20 December 2019 Experiment set-up measuring how many blinks per minute a falcon perceives. (Photo: Simon Potier) Extremely acute vision and the ability to rapidly process different visual impressions – these two factors are crucial when a peregrine falcon bears down on its prey at a speed that easily matches that of a Formula 1 racing car: over 350 kilometres per hour. The visual acuity

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/falcons-see-prey-speed-formula-1-car - 2025-06-01