Published 3 April 2024 On 2 April, the faculty's dean made the decision to co-locate the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC), the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science (INES), and the Department of Geology at the Geocentre.Co-locating these organisations is a long-term strategic choice for the development of the Faculty of Science's activities in environmental scien

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Published 7 May 2024 Participants from visioning workshops in April. Image by C. Schubert At the end of April, nearly 90 members of staff from the Centre for Climate and Environmental Sciences (CEC), the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science (INES), and the Department of Geology gathered to participate in joint visioning workshops. The workshops were held on two occasions with an

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Published 21 May 2024 Image from Science Village with the building Space in the background. Image: Cecilia Schubert Since January, the project group for Stage 2 has been working intensively with White Arkitekter to evaluate the premises programme. During the spring, the focus has been on the three priority areas mentioned in the programme. The work has mainly involved assessing these areas in term

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Published 27 May 2024 Image from the visionary workshops held in April. Image by Cecilia Schubert (Communications Officer) The heads of the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC), the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science (INES), and the Department of Geology have agreed on a proposed name for a joint department, contingent upon a co-organisation decision in September.

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Published 19 June 2024 The Science Village area is developing. To the left is building Space and to the right the almost finished The Loop. Möllan in the middle. Image by Cecilia Schubert. The Science Village Establishment (Phase 2) project team wishes everyone a great summer with lots of well-deserved rest! Before work starts again in August, we want to share what we have been working on during t

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Published 12 September 2024 The Faculty of Science's Honorary Doctors 2024: R. Michael Rich and Harriet Bulkeley. Photo: Henrik Karlström. It's time to nominate honorary doctors for 2025! We invite all permanent members of staff to submit your nominations by 31 October 2024.
 Being awarded an honorary doctorate at our faculty is one of the finest honours we can bestow. It recognises individuals wh

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Published 25 September 2024 On 25 September, the Faculty Board decided that the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC), the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science (INES) and the Department of Geology will be co-organised into a new joint department. Furthermore, the Board took the following decisions:The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences shall be establishe

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Published 30 September 2024 Science Village from the east. Illustration from FOJAB. The project group for the Science Village establishment is working on finalising the evaluation report for Stage 2 of the premises programme presented last year. The report has been produced in close co-operation with White Arkitekter, with contributions from Akademiska Hus, and is an important part of the planning

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Published 23 March 2017 A bracelet with a unique ”panic grip” - featuring a built-in mobile phone and GPS system - has been developed by a former industrial design student at Lund University in Sweden. The device doesn’t require a base station in your home. WATCH VIDEO STORYThe mobile bracelet can be programmed with up to seven phone numbers. When activated, the microphone and speakers are switche

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Published 24 March 2017 The male stegodyphus bicolor is "the most beautiful spider in the world" according to Klaus Birkhofer. The photo is taken in Namibia. Photo: Klaus Birkhofer Spiders eat between 400 and 800 million tons of insects and springtails each year. In comparison, people worldwide eat 400 million tons of meat and fish per year. The enormous amount the spiders eat helps to regulate an

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Published 27 March 2017 When stem cells are cultivated in the fibre network they enter between the fibres and develop into neurons (red) or glial cells (green). The blue structures are cell nuclei. (Picture taken with a confocal microscope) The usual way of cultivating cells is to use a flat laboratory dish of glass. However, inside a human body, the cells do not grow on a flat surface, but rather

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Published 29 March 2017 Assistens Cemetery (Photo: Sian Anthony) When the city of Copenhagen decided to build a new underground station in the Assistens Cemetery where many famous Danes are buried, they had to remove part of the entire north-eastern corner of the cemetery and re-bury the people who had been laid to rest in this area. This presented a unique opportunity for archaeologists at the Mu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unique-study-1000-modern-burials - 2025-06-29

Published 30 March 2017 A group of researchers at Lund University in Sweden have made the first iron-based molecule capable of emitting light. This could contribute to the development of affordable and environmentally friendly materials for e.g. solar cells, light sources and displays. For over 50 years, chemists have developed metal-based dye molecules for a wide range of different applications,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/modern-alchemy-creates-luminescent-iron-molecules - 2025-06-29

Published 4 April 2017 In a collaboration between Swedish and Italian researchers, the aim was to analyse how the brain interprets information from a virtual experience of touch, created by a finger prosthesis with artificial sensation. The result was – completely unexpectedly – a new method for measuring brain health. “We were able to measure the cooperation between neural networks in a very prec

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/finger-prosthesis-provides-clues-brain-health - 2025-06-29

Published 6 April 2017 Two biology researchers at Lund University have been awarded a prestigious grant worth almost SEK 50 million from the European Research Council. One of the research projects is about the mystery of aging and how the immune system attacks the body’s own cells. The other project will study how small insects are able to navigate with the help of the Earth’s magnetic field.The M

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Published 6 April 2017 Scientists at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new understanding of how the first blood cells form during human development as they transition from endothelial cells to form blood cells of different types. Using a laboratory model of human stem cell development and by looking at the expression of blood cell and endothelial cell genes in each individual cell, they f

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/where-does-your-blood-actually-come - 2025-06-29

Published 6 April 2017 A chance meeting in a Yokohama pub led Lund University researcher Andreas Johansson straight to the heart of the Japanese Yakuza mafia. For two weeks, he was “embedded” with a well-known Yakuza clan, enabling him to document their tattoos through photography. He is now releasing his book of photos ”Yakuza Tattoo”. In 2014, Andreas Johansson participated in a conference in Yo

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Published 13 April 2017 Jan Sundquist (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Mindfulness group therapy has an equally positive effect as individual CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) for the treatment of a wide range of psychiatric symptoms in patients with depression, anxiety and stress-related disorders. Researchers made the finding in a new study from the Center for Primary Healthcare Research (CPF) in Malmö,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mindfulness-just-effective-cbt-broad-range-psychiatric-symptoms - 2025-06-29

Published 13 April 2017 Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in producing nanotubes from a single building block using so-called molecular self-recognition. The tube can also change shape depending on the surrounding environment. The results can contribute to the future development of transport channels for drugs through the cell membrane. In the present study, researchers fro

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Published 19 April 2017 Illustration: James Ormiston Researchers from Lund University, among others, have recently discovered a giant prehistoric worm with massive jaws. The worm lived in the sea 400 million years ago and is estimated to have been up to two metres long. The newly discovered species’ scientific name was inspired by a bassist in an American hard rock band. The worm species is the la

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/giant-prehistoric-worm-discovered - 2025-06-29