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Hyggesfria metoder för skogsbruk har seglat upp som en lösning för att få skogen att bidra till fler nyttor. Syftet är att skogsbruket ska bli mer hållbart, men det finns många utmaningar som nu ska övervinnas i ett nytt projekt där fem organisationer testar hyggesfritt skogsbruk i praktiken. I Bockeboda utanför Kristianstad testas framtidens hyggesfria skogsbruk i projektet Adaptivt Skogsbruk. Fe

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/hyggesfritt-okar-har-testas-framtidens-skogsbruk - 2025-12-19

Lunds universitet har klättrat till förstaplatsen i världen i QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2026. Rankningen omfattar cirka 2 000 lärosäten från omkring 100 länder och mäter hur universiteten bidrar till en hållbar framtid – genom forskning, utbildning och sina sätt att verka som organisationer. – Ödmjuk, stolt och inspirerad att fortsätta framåt – så sammanfattar jag känslan över a

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitet-rankas-som-bast-i-varlden-inom-hallbarhet - 2025-12-19

Två av universitetets framstående forskare hedras med universitetets silvermedalj. Professor Cecilia Jarlskog belönas för sina banbrytande insatser inom teoretisk partikelfysik och professor Markku Rummukainen uppmärksammas för sitt arbete med klimatforskning och sitt engagemang i internationella klimatfrågor. Årets medaljörer är två forskare vars arbete bidrar till både vetenskapliga genombrott o

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/fakultetsforskare-en-av-tva-mottagare-av-universitetets-silvermedalj - 2025-12-19

Genom dna-analyser av gamla luftprover kan forskare i Lund visa att de nordliga mossornas sporspridning har flyttats fram flera veckor under de senaste 35 åren. Resultaten speglar hur snabbt naturens kalender ställs om i takt med ett varmare klimat. När Försvarsmakten på 1960-talet började samla in luftprover för att registrera radioaktivt nedfall från kärnvapentester, var det knappast någon som t

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/forsvarets-gamla-luftprover-avslojar-klimatforandringar - 2025-12-19

Davide Schirone, forskare på enheten för fysikalisk kemi, är intresserad av hur veganska proteiner fungerar. Nyligen avslutade han en studie om hur ärtproteiner bryts ned i kroppen. Experimenten utförde Schirone och hans internationella forskargrupp på MAX IV i Lund. Varför är det viktigt att studera nedbrytningen av veganska proteiner i magen?– Sättet vi producerar mat på idag i förmögna länder ä

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/kemist-studerade-artor-med-rontgenstralning-pa-max-iv - 2025-12-19

Biologerna Michael Bok och Cecilia Nilsson har tilldelats det prestigefyllda ERC Consolidator Grant från Europeiska forskningsrådet. De får 2 miljoner euro var för att undersöka djurs visuella evolution och beteenden i luften. Michael Bok, biologiforskare vid Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Lunds universitet:Kan du berätta om din forskning?– Jag studerar evolutionen av ögon och visuella system. Det

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/tva-naturvetare-far-stora-eu-anslag - 2025-12-19

Naturen är för många en källa till återhämtning och välmående. Men forskning visar att det också finns en växande andel personer som upplever negativa känslor, som rädsla, obehag eller till och med avsky. Fenomenet, kallat biofobi, uppmärksammas nu i ny forskning från Lunds universitet. – Forskning har länge utgått från att människor i grunden känner positiva känslor inför naturen. Vi har undersök

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/ny-forskning-utmanar-bilden-av-manniskan-som-naturalskande - 2025-12-19

När sensommarsolen faller över irländska Wicklow Mountains blir sluttningarna lila av blommande ljung. Honungsbina flyttas ut till hedarna för den eftertraktade ljunghonungen – men deras närvaro påverkar de vilda humlorna. Ett svensk-irländskt forskarteam visar i en ny studie att vilda humlor både ändrar beteende och är mindre i storlek när antalet bikupor ökar. Forskarna jämförde platser med allt

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/honungsbin-tranger-undan-humlor-aven-pa-blomrika-ljunghedar - 2025-12-19

The most common form of childhood cancer is acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, in cooperation with Karolinska Institutet, SciLifeLab and the University of Cambridge, have now carried out the most extensive analysis to date of ALL at the protein level, by studying the activity in over 8 000 genes and proteins. The results show aberrant folding in the DNA

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/first-major-study-proteins-patients-acute-lymphoblastic-leukaemia - 2025-12-19

Feng Zhang, professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard visited Lund University at the beginning of March to deliver the annual honorary lecture organised by the Royal Physiographic and Mendelian Societies in Lund.   Listen to the interview and hear more about why Feng Zhang wants to introduce a moratorium on genetically-modified babies and where Malin Parmar hopes her stem cell research w

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/honorary-lecturer-feng-zhang-crispr-research-treasure-hunt-nature - 2025-12-19

Indian women are younger and leaner than Swedish women when they develop gestational diabetes, a new study from Lund University shows. The researchers also found a gene that increases the risk of gestational diabetes in Swedish women, but which, on the contrary, turned out to have a protective effect in Indian women. Gestational diabetes is characterized by impaired insulin production and insulin

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gestational-diabetes-india-and-sweden - 2025-12-19

After a series of studies, researchers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues in Italy, have shown that not only one part, but most parts of the brain can be involved in processing the signals that arise from touch. The results open the way for a new approach to how the brain’s network of neurons processes information, and thereby the mechanisms by which the brain works. The resear

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-view-mechanisms-how-brain-works - 2025-12-19

The loss of animals, often due to unregulated or illegal hunting, has consequences for the carbon storage capacity of forests, yet this link is rarely mentioned in high-level climate policy discussions, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Many wildlife species play a key role in dispersing the seeds of tropical trees, particularly la

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hunting-jeopardizes-forest-carbon-storage-yet-overlooked-climate-mitigation-efforts - 2025-12-19

The UN Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) global assessment on nature highlights that one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. Dr. Mine Islar, one of the lead athors of the report, and senior lecturer and researcher at Lund University, explains the significance of the report’s findings. Why is this report importa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lead-author-ipbes-global-assessment-loss-biodiversity-crucial-climate-change - 2025-12-19

During a brief visit to Sweden, the renowned US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg received a jubilee honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Law in a formal ceremony in Stockholm. As the honoured guest did not have the opportunity to travel to Lund, the ceremony was held at the Svea Court of Appeal in Stockholm. The ceremony was followed by a conversation about Justice Ginsburg’s career, in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ruth-bader-ginsburg-receives-jubilee-honorary-doctorate - 2025-12-19

In recent years, it has become increasingly clear to researchers that the protein galectin-3 is involved in inflammatory diseases in the brain. A study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden now shows the de facto key role played by the protein in Alzheimer’s disease. When the researchers shut off the gene that produces this protein in mice, the amount of Alzheimer’s plaque and the inflam

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-block-protein-plays-key-role-alzheimers-disease - 2025-12-19

A European consortium, led from Lund University, is to receive SEK 50 million from the EU for research which is to develop our understanding of the functional mechanisms of the brain. The research project, called INTUITIVE, is one of the Innovative Training Networks within the framework of Horizon 2020. The aim of the project is to develop user interfaces based on touch that feel more intuitive th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/additional-sek-50-million-research-brains-mechanisms - 2025-12-19

The greatest threat to biodiversity today is different species losing their habitats. To reverse this trend will require action on many societal levels, and there are simple things you can do in your own garden to help, according to Lund University researchers Anna Persson and Caroline Isaksson. In many countries, factors such as large-scale agriculture and forestry, pesticides and paved urban are

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gardening-tips-five-easy-ways-contribute-biodiversity - 2025-12-19

Optic fiber broadband expansion could be reducing companies’ performance and turnover, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. The explanation proposed by the researchers is that the internet and smartphones are a distraction that reduces employee productivity, and blurs lines between personal and work-related internet use. The conclusion should be interpreted with caution, howeve

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/super-fast-broadband-may-have-negative-side-effects-companies - 2025-12-19

In a new study, Lund University economic historian Erik Bengtsson debunks the myth that Sweden was destined to become a social democratic country. Instead, he argues that it was actually against all odds, as Sweden in the early 1900s was one of the western world’s most unequal countries – and the least democratic in western Europe. Has Sweden always flown the flag for equality and welfare? No, tha

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-sweden-went-least-democratic-welfare-state - 2025-12-19