Published 23 September 2022 Illustration: NASA JPL-Caltech R. Hurt (SSC Caltech) Using data from the Gaia space telescope, a team led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden has shown that large parts of the Milky Way's outer disk vibrate. The ripples are caused by a dwarf galaxy, now seen in the constellation Sagittarius, that shook our galaxy as it passed by hundreds of millions of years ago

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mysterious-ripples-milky-way-were-caused-passing-dwarf-galaxy - 2025-07-01

Published 26 September 2022 Photo: Eva Darron/Unsplash The lab that will take us closer to the aviation fuel of the future has now opened. The Jet Engine Lab at Lund University makes it possible to conduct full-scale studies on how engines are affected by new fuels – knowledge that will become increasingly important when fossil-based aviation fuels are phased out and replaced by more sustainable a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-aviation-fuel-lab-opened - 2025-07-01

Published 29 September 2022 Photo: Lars Johansson/Mostphotos A new study led by Lund University in Sweden shows that cities negatively affect the diversity of birds. There are significantly fewer bird species in urban forests compared with forests in the countryside - even if the forest areas are of the same quality. The researchers examined 459 natural woodlands located in or near 32 cities in so

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/less-bird-diversity-city-forests - 2025-07-01

Published 5 October 2022 Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström. Photo by Kennet Ruona. In the past week, several reports of the human rights protests in Iran have reached the wider world. Lund University has also been touched by these protests, which have spread and are now visible in the West, on the streets, in social media and the European Parliament, for example. Lund University stands up for and safe

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/we-can-provide-knowledge-when-human-rights-are-violated-vice-chancellors-blog - 2025-07-01

Published 13 October 2022 Memorandum being signed by three people with two people in the background, and the Swedish, Dutch and EU flags Skåne University Hospital, Lund University and Leiden University Medical Center will collaborate to develop research, education and care delivery in the field of ATMPs (Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products). That is the essence of a Memorandum of Understanding tha

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/international-collaboration-strengthen-development-atmps - 2025-07-01

By sanna [dot] trygg [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Sanna Trygg) - published 19 October 2022 The new excavations in Uppåkra are at the forefront of cutting edge archaeological techniques. By combining big data, data modelling and DNA sequencing, researchers are currently solving significant parts of a historical puzzle. Perhaps we will learn whether the Justinianic Plague, the forerunner o

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/modern-archaeology-reveals-secrets-iron-age-power-centre - 2025-07-01

Published 18 October 2022 Photo: Julian Melgar Males and females are affected in different ways by cooperation and competition in social groups – something that could determine which group sizes work best. According to a new study from Lund University in Sweden, this depends to a large extent quite simply on females and males having different interests. Over a seven-year period, the researchers st

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/differences-male-and-female-ostriches-could-explain-how-they-form-groups - 2025-07-01

Published 19 October 2022 Mikael Akke, Göran Jönsson, Sara Linse and Mathieu Gisselbrecht (Photos: Björn Walse, Kennet Ruona, Johan Joelsson) Mikael Akke, Göran Jönsson, Sara Linse and Mathieu Gisselbrecht of Lund University in Sweden have been awarded considerable grants from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Over a five-year period, they will conduct major projects on allosteric signalli

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/four-lund-researchers-receive-sek-120-million-wallenberg-foundation - 2025-07-01

Published 19 October 2022 Photo: iStock/eyepark Locked fingers, known as trigger finger, are more common among people with diabetes than in the general population. A study led by Lund University in Sweden shows that the risk of being affected increases in the case of high blood sugar. The study has been published in Diabetes Care. Trigger finger means that one or more fingers, often the ring finge

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hands-people-diabetes-more-often-affected-trigger-finger - 2025-07-01

By jessika [dot] sellergren [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 19 October 2022 Virtual reality might be the closest we can get to a time machine. For instance, it can be used to experience historical communities – such as the Iron Age city of Uppåkra in southern Sweden, according to LU researcher Mattias Wallergård. Mattias Wallergård has done research on virtual reality a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/vr-helps-us-experience-historical-places - 2025-07-01

Published 20 October 2022 Dopamine-producing neurons that researchers from Lund University have grown in the laboratory from human embryonic stem cells. Photo: Agnete Kirkeby. An investigational stem cell-based therapy for the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, STEM-PD, has been given regulatory approval for a Phase I/IIa clinical trial. Ethical approval of the trial has already been obtained from

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/swedish-medical-products-agency-grants-approval-clinical-study-new-stem-cell-based-parkinsons - 2025-07-01

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 26 October 2022 The song and the opportunity to learn a musical instrument improves language learning, reading skills, concentration and attention in children. Photo: iStockphoto Singing can be a real health boost. Song involves your emotions, thoughts and body; the feelgood hormone oxytocin surges and the stress hor

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/childrens-songs-link-ones-inner-self-and-others - 2025-07-01

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 27 October 2022 Fire does not respect national borders; a wildfire can spread from one country to another. Buildings are destroyed, agricultural land laid to waste, and it can result in forced migration. Photo: Yasin Akgul Researchers around the globe agree: the Earth is getting warmer and warmer, extreme weather suc

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/world-fire-how-do-we-adapt-hotter-planet - 2025-07-01

By marianne [dot] loor [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Loor) - published 16 November 2022 Forests are important to people’s health and wellbeing and provide us with many different benefits. Photo: iStockphoto How are we going to reach climate targets? That is an ever-present question for many of us. A major new EU project, CLIMB-FOREST, will create an overview of European forests and forestry

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-research-project-can-provide-guidance-how-european-forestry-should-be-conducted - 2025-07-01

Published 2 November 2022 Contrary to popular belief, Swedish women who have joined IS were not simply passively manipulated by men. A new study from Lund University suggests that it was a strict religious culture, which opposes gender equality, and modern gender roles and norms, that attracted Swedish women to join the Islamic State. On the internet, Swedish IS women propagate Sharia law, gender

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/aggressively-patriarchal-worldview-attracted-swedish-women - 2025-07-01

Published 7 November 2022 Nicaragua after the deadly hurricane ETA in 2020 (Photo: Delmer Membreno / EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid) The UNFCCC climate meeting COP27 is currently taking place in Egypt. With evidence growing that green house gas emissions are making extreme events occur more frequently, and with greater intensity, loss and damage has emerged as one of the most important t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cop27-climate-compensation-poorer-countries-must-top-agenda - 2025-07-01

Published 8 November 2022 Markku Rummukainen (Photo: Kennet Ruona) The UN’s annual climate change conference is currently ongoing in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. Over the course of two weeks, representatives of the world’s nations will gather to discuss how to achieve the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement and contribute to the climate transition. At this year’s COP, the focus will be on topics such a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/uns-climate-change-conference-cop27-topics-agenda - 2025-07-01

Published 9 November 2022 Photo: Ulrika Ervander Almost one fourth of Sweden’s last unprotected old-growth forest was logged between 2003 and 2019. At this rate, all of these ecologically unique and valuable forests will be lost in about 50 years. These findings add to the growing body of evidence for widespread cryptic forest degradation across the global north. A small fraction of Sweden’s fores

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/study-uncovers-widespread-and-ongoing-clearcutting-swedish-old-forests - 2025-07-01

Published 11 November 2022 Oskar Hansson (Photo: Kennet Ruona) A large study led by Lund University in Sweden has shown that people with Alzheimer's disease can now be identified before they experience any symptoms. It is now also possible to predict who will deteriorate within the next few years. The study is published in Nature Medicine, and is very timely in light of the recent development of n

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/alzheimers-disease-can-be-diagnosed-symptoms-emerge - 2025-07-01

Published 11 November 2022 Photo: iStock/kan2d Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified one of the reasons why the childhood cancer neuroblastoma becomes resistant to chemotherapy. The findings are significant for how future treatments should be designed. The results have been published in Science Advances. Neuroblastoma is an aggressive cancer of the sympathetic nervous system, es

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/altered-cell-behaviour-behind-resistance-neuroblastoma - 2025-07-01