Extra screen time may boost disadvantaged students’ academic performance. Photo: Louise Larsson For decades, doctors have warned parents that too much TV can harm children’s development. After all, television is one of the main activities in kids’ daily lives, and school performance plays a crucial role in shaping their future opportunities in the job market. It’s no wonder that physicians and edu

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/can-technological-innovations-entertainment-boost-academic-performance - 2025-08-25

Emma Samsioe and Carys Egan-Wyer highlight three retail megatrends, in their new anthology: Technology, sustainability, and consumer well-being. Photo: Louise Larsson The research areas remain the same, but our perspective on them has changed. This is how consumption researchers Carys Egan-Wyer and Emma Samsioe describe the development in retail research over the past ten years. “In one of our rec

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/uncertainty-new-normal-retailers-and-consumption-researchers - 2025-08-25

Johan Holmberg, Olivia Ritsvall, Karl Swärd, Marycarmen Arévalo-Martinez and Sebastian Albinsson. (Photo: Åsa Hansdotter) A research group at Lund University has studied how a molecular sensor located in the blood vessel wall, controls how the vessel compensates for high blood pressure. As we age, the sensor deteriorates, which can worsen vascular damage caused by high blood pressure and consequen

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-your-blood-vessels-tolerate-high-blood-pressure - 2025-08-25

A car is refueled with a liquid containing hydrogen. The fuel passes through the catalytic converter, where hydrogen is released into a fuel cell. When the hydrogen runs out, it is drained and filled with new liquid at the gas station. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden are investigating a car fuel comprised of a liquid that is converted to hydrogen by a solid catalyst. The used liquid is th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-catalyst-could-provide-liquid-hydrogen-fuel-future - 2025-08-25

Photo: iStock/NoSystem images International law supports women’s right to breastfeed in the public. However, women report having been subjected to negative responses and judgmental looks when breastfeeding outside the home. This is according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden, based on surveys answered by women living in Sweden, Ireland and Australia. The researchers behind the study sa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/negative-attitudes-towards-breastfeeding-public-still-issue - 2025-08-25

“At the time, I couldn’t imagine that my experiment could create such short pulses of light,” Anne L’Huillier later said of the discovery that paved the way for the Nobel Prize. Photo: ERCEA. This is the science behind the unimaginably quick attosecond pulses. The method can “photograph” electrons, giving us new insights into the inner life of atoms, and is the discovery that earned Anne L’Huillie

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/pulses-light-open-door-microcosm - 2025-08-25

Iryna Tsunovska and Nataliia Kohutyuk in Lund for a training course. Photo: Johan Persson Iryna Tsunovska and Nataliia Kohutyuk from Ukraine are taking home many new insights on how they can contribute to the protection of human rights in their professional roles. They have just completed a training course at Lund University for young policymakers, public servants and civil society workers from se

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/young-ukrainian-civil-servants-explore-human-rights-lund - 2025-08-25

Photo: Dean Drobot/MostPhotos Video games are easy to exploit, and are being used by actors ranging from IS and Hizbollah for recruitment, to Russia, who use it to spread propaganda during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. This according to a new report from Psychological Defence Research Institute at Lund University in Sweden. Since the 2016 US Presidential election, many democratic governments ha

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-video-games-are-being-used-foreign-actors-and-extremists - 2025-08-25

The study shows that large herbivores have a positive impact on variation in tree cover in the world’s protected areas. The picture shows Tarangire National Park in Tanzania. (Photo: Wikipedia) Using global satellite data, a research team has mapped the tree cover of the world’s protected areas. The study shows that regions with abundant large herbivores in many settings have a more variable tree

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/large-herbivores-such-elephants-bison-and-moose-contribute-tree-diversity - 2025-08-25

Illustration of phage virus injecting its DNA into a cell (Image: Alex Evilevitch and Ting Liu) Researchers at Lund University, together with colleagues at the NIST Synchrotron Facility in the USA, have mapped on an atomic level what happens in a virus particle when the temperature is raised. "When the temperature rises, the virus's genetic material changes its form and density, becoming more flui

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/temperature-increase-triggers-viral-infection - 2025-08-25

Photo: Kennet Ruona Six of the most innovative ideas and projects currently within Lund University were spotlighted at the Future Innovations Award, held on November 7th. The contributors shared a total of SEK 500,000 when Lund University's and Sparbanken Skåne's Future Innovations Award was given out. The winning ideas included an energy storage system that makes use of upcycled electric vehicles

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/most-innovative-lund-university-receive-awards - 2025-08-25

Anna Sellgren Engskov (Photo: Ingemar Hultquist) A man who is exposed to physical pain feels less severe pain if he is subjected to pain by a woman compared with a man, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden. In addition, men experience less pain after surgery when asked about it by a woman than by a man. “This was true despite the fact that the men and women involved in the stud

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/men-experience-less-pain-when-woman-charge - 2025-08-25

Pictured is the male, blue variant of the bluetail damselfly (Photo: Erik Svensson) For over 20 years, a research team at Lund University in Sweden has studied the common bluetail damselfly. Females occur in three different colour forms – one with a male-like appearance, something that protects them from mating harassment. In a new study, an international research team found that this genetic colo

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/scientists-have-solved-damselfly-colour-mystery - 2025-08-25

Worldwide, coastal river deltas are home to more than half a billion people, supporting fisheries, agriculture, cities, and fertile ecosystems. In a unique study covering 49 deltas globally, researchers from Lund University and Utrecht University have identified the most critical risks to deltas in the future. The research shows that deltas face multiple risks, and that population growth and poor

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/coastal-river-deltas-threatened-more-climate-change - 2025-08-25

UN Climate Change/Kiara Worth The COP climate meetings are organised in a way that benefits richer and larger countries at the expense of smaller and poorer countries, according to a new study from Lund University and the University of Leeds. The study also labels the participating countries as either Radicals, Opportunists, Hypocrites or Evaders. Every year, the UN organises its global climate ch

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/un-climate-meetings-organised-way-benefits-richer-larger-countries - 2025-08-25

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 researchers at Lund University, Sweden has now proposed guidelines to reduce the number of emergency an

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/children-breath-holding-spells-undergo-unnecessary-diagnostic-interventions - 2025-08-25

Daniel Bexell, Joan Yuan and Andreas Nilsson Daniel Bexell, Joan Yuan and Andreas Nilsson have each been awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant. They will spend five years conducting research on childhood cancer neuroblastoma, the crucial role of B cells in our immune system and the Earth’s magnetic field. Daniel Bexell, senior lecturer and associate professor at the Division of Translatio

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/three-lund-researchers-receive-erc-consolidator-grants-0 - 2025-08-25

Umeå universitet utlyser en tillsvidaretjänst som universitetslektor i statsvetenskap med inriktning mot freds­ och konfliktstudier. Ansök senast 12 januari 2015. Läs mer.

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/ledig-tjanst-umea - 2025-08-25

11 december stänger institutionens byggnad Eden kl. 17.00. Läs mer om Edens öppettider över jul och nyår.

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18/12 lanseras statsvetenskapliga institutionens nya webbplats. Den avgående webbmastern önskar sin efterträdare all framgång! Den 18 december lanseras institutionens nya webbplats. Samtidigt tar Emma Lord över som webbmaster efter Mikael Sundström som därmed kommer att ägna 100 % av sin tid till grunduppdraget som universitetslektor, efter lång tid på posten (hans första site var optimerad för we

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/avgaende-webbmastern-tar-farval - 2025-08-25