En spiralgalax fångad på bild i det ultravioletta ljus som den aktuella studien handlar om. Galaxen, vid namn NGC 6744, ligger cirka 30 miljoner ljusår från Jorden. Foto: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Nu har forskare från Lunds universitet dragit en spännande slutsats angående massiva stjärnor som kan observeras i ytterområdena hos många spiralgalaxer. Dessa objekt verkar vara så kallade skenstjärnor som har

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Clifford Woodward och Melissa Franklin. En folkbildande partikelfysiker med en rad världsupptäckter i forskarportföljen och en experimentell professor som utvecklat teoretiska modeller i gränslandet mellan kemi och fysik. Melissa Franklin och Clifford Woodward har utsetts till hedersdoktorer vid Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten vid Lunds universitet. Melissa Franklin, partikelfysiker vid Harvard Univ

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Silverstreckad pärlemorfjäril. Foto: Per Henningsson. Fjärilarnas vingar är unikt stora och breda i förhållande till resten av kroppen jämfört med vingarna hos andra flygande insekter och hos fåglar. Nu har forskare vid Lunds universitet studerat aerodynamiken när fjärilarna flyger. Resultaten förklarar nyttan med den extrema vingformen och de flexibla vingarna och kan komma till användning vid ti

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/fjarilens-vingslag-overraskar-forskare - 2025-08-29

Sökandet efter den så kallade stabilitetsön fortsätter. Redan i slutet av 1960-talet lanserades teorier om en möjlig förekomst av supertunga grundämnen. Deras mest långlivade atomkärnor skulle kunna ge upphov till en så kallad ”stabilitetsö” långt bortom grundämnet uran. Men nu visar en studie, som letts av kärnfysiker vid Lunds universitet, att ett 50 år gammalt kärnfysikmanifest måste revideras.

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Forskarna har upptäckt individuella karaktärsdrag hos svampar när de letar föda. Fotot visar ett utsnitt av en "hinderbana" tillverkad i silikonpolymer. Foto: Kristin Aleklett Kadish. Forskare vid Lunds universitet har upptäckt hur svampar besitter individuella karaktärsdrag, och hur deras hyfer (enskilda svamptrådar i jorden) beter sig på olika sätt när de utforskar och tar sig fram genom jordens

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/militarer-ormar-och-maratonlopare-i-svamparnas-varld - 2025-08-29

Building engines – out of proteins. That’s the aim for a research project, coordinated by Heiner Linke at NanoLund, Lund University in Sweden. The project is now being funded by the European Research Council (ERC) – it received a EUR 10 million ERC Synergy Grant. The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to researchers who developed molecular machines, that is, molecules that convert light int

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-grant-awarded-research-project-protein-motors - 2025-08-29

Implementing the strategy will make Lund University stronger and more visible, says Heiner Linke. Photo: Kennet Ruona The complex challenges in our society require new solutions. We need high-quality, challenge-relevant research brought together in collective efforts over subject and sector boundaries, combined with strong curiosity-driven research. With this need in mind, the Strategic Research A

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X-ray beam induced current measurements from the nanowire detector through the nano focus. A team of researchers from Lund University has imaged the beam focus at the hard X-ray nanoprobe NanoMAX using a single nanowire as the detector. The result is an unprecedented ultrahigh-resolution 3D image of the 88 nanometer diameter focus revealing fine details of the beam. “A basic way of describing an X

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/imaging-x-ray-focus-nanomax-single-nanowire - 2025-08-29

Sara Linse, on the right, with her colleague Katja Bernfur. Photo: Johan Joelsson Each year, the analysis company Clarivate Analytics identifies the world’s most influential researchers ─ the select few who have been most frequently cited by their peers over the last decade. The list includes three names from Lund University, and Sara Linse, principal investigator at NanoLund, is one of them. The

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“There are a number of neurological conditions, such as chronic pain, epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease, whose mechanisms we want to understand”, says Jens Schouenborg. On his left: Johan Agorelius, Alexander Dontsios Holmkvist. Photo: Tove Smeds A new method that slowly releases drugs locally in the brain has been developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden. The drug is encapsulated in n

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanoparticles-deliver-drugs-brain - 2025-08-29

Hermann Grimmeiss became professor of Solid State Physics in Lund in 1965. The recessed photo is from 1968: Lars Ask, Bo Monemar, Mats-Ola Ottosson, Hermann Grimmeiss, Gunnar Björklund, Rune Olsson, Lars-Åke Larsson, Lars Andersson and Erland Ejder. Hermann Grimmeiss, who founded the research field of Semiconductor Physics in Lund, has been awarded the Daniel Ernst Jablonski Medal of the Leibniz S

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/medal-founder-semiconductor-physics-research-lund - 2025-08-29

Droplets spreading from mouth when singing. Photo: Alexios Matamis If silence is golden, speech is silver – and singing the worst. Singing doesn’t need to be silenced, however, but at the moment the wisest thing is to sing with social distancing in place. The advice comes from aerosol researchers Jakob Löndahl and Malin Alsved at Lund University. They have studied the amount of particles we actual

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The upper part represents the experiment with a laser that shines on the 2D trap with atoms. In the lower part you can see how the atoms act when they pair, while the water represents their properties as superfluids. Illustration: Jonas Ahlstedt. By studying cold atoms, researchers have in a unique way been able to observe a precursor to a quantum phase transition, and thereby study physical proce

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/observing-emergence-quantum-phase-transition-shell-shell - 2025-08-29

Christelle Prinz’ project developing a test that quickly detects viruses in the body receives an ERC proof of concept – innovation money from the European Research Council. Picture: Mostphotos. Christelle Prinz, professor of solid state physics and affiliated to NanoLund, receives 150,000 euros to further develop research results that are considered to have great innovation potential by the Europe

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-grant-one-step-covid-detection - 2025-08-29

Anders Mikkelsen, Maria Messing and Anneli Löfgren are the leadership troika for NanoLund from January 2021. Photo: Kennet Ruona Since January 1, NanoLund has a new director – Anders Mikkelsen, and a new deputy director – Maria Messing. “Organizing the work in NanoLund will be an interesting challenge, but we take it on with great enthusiasm and look forward to engaging with the entire staff,” say

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Award Diploma to Lars Samuelson, for ”Creation and Application of Compound Semiconductor Quantum Nanostructures and Contribution to Sweden-Japan Collaborations” ‘JSAP fellow’ is presented to individuals who have remarkably contributed to the progress of applied physics through the continuous activities in Japan Society of Applied Physics. Lars Samuelson, Professor of Solid State Physics and founde

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As odd as it sounds, many scientists have attempted to place extremely small diamonds inside living cells. Why? Because nanodiamonds are consistently bright and can give us unique knowledge about the inner life of cells over a long time. Now physics researchers Elke Hebisch and Christelle Prinz from the strategic research area NanoLund have succeeded in injecting a large number of nanodiamonds dir

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/fluorescent-nanodiamonds-successfully-injected-living-cells - 2025-08-29

Anne l’Huillier is the winner of the 2021 Max Born Award from the Optical Society (OSA). Photo: Magnus Bergström The Optical Society, OSA, awards NanoLundian Atomic Physics professor Anne l’Huillier the Max Born Award for pioneering work in ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics. Anne L’Huillier, professor of Atomic Physics and affiliated member of NanoLund, has been awarded the Optical So

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We are facing new challenges, and consequently we need the development of electronics to continue. But the question is: how do we do that? Mattias Borg, co-coordinator of Exploratory Nanotechnology, explains how. The basis of the electronics we use today, such as home computers and mobile phones, was invented more than 50 years ago. And in recent years its development has begun to stall. According

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/how-make-smarter-and-more-efficient-electronics - 2025-08-29

Laboratory facilities within Lund University and Chalmers University will be used to prepare experiments using X-rays or neutrons. Picture from the PME-lab at Lund University. Courtesy of Jan-Eric Ståhl. Researchers from the two Strategic Research Areas NanoLund and SPI (Sustainable Production Initiative, Chalmers and Lund University) have joined forces in a new collaboration together with major S

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/x-rays-and-neutrons-entering-metals-and-manufacturing-industries - 2025-08-29