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Five Lund University researchers to receive ERC Consolidator Grants
Lund University to start new UN collaboration focusing on water
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20 Dec 2024
Virgin birth - beyond the biblical legend
Now that Christmas is just around the corner, thoughts inevitably turn to an expectant Mary in the stable. However, she is not alone in the sphere of life-giving without the involv...
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18 Dec 2024
Questions and answers for the Lund University sugar study
An observational study shows that sweetened beverages have a greater negative impact on health than other sources of sugar.
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17 Dec 2024
How Mariah Carey and Wham became Christmas icons
Christmas music is more than background noise to the hustle and bustle. From Mariah Carey’s Christmas cracker ‘All I Want For Christmas’ to Wham’s lost love in ‘Last Christmas’, ea...
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16 Dec 2024
Dealing with kids’ disappointment at their Christmas presents
Angry children can be a feature of Christmas. The disappointment children feel is a great opportunity to train them for challenges later in life.
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11 Dec 2024
Climate change plans include unrealistic land demands: an area larger than the US
For the first time, an international team of scientists have calculated the total land area that the countries of the world have included in their individual plans for climate acti...
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10 Dec 2024
Lund University ranked third in the world in QS Sustainability Ranking
Lund University continues its climb towards the top of the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability, which ranks sustainable development at universities around the world. The U...
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5 Dec 2024
LU alumni leave COP29 climate summit feeling hopeful
As students at Lund University, they studied the effects of climate change. As alumni, they are now negotiating the future of climate policy on behalf of the EU and the Swedish gov...
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5 Dec 2024
52 Million SEK towards uncovering genetic drivers of Parkinson’s Disease
A team of international researchers led by Professor Johan Jakobsson at Lund University has secured a 52 million SEK grant from the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initi...
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4 Dec 2024
Unexpected discovery revives abandoned breast cancer treatment
A new study led by Lund University in Sweden has solved a years-old mystery: which patients with aggressive breast cancer are helped by a targeted cancer treatment that had been un...
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29 Nov 2024
Prominent South African researcher receives honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities at Lund University
Elmi Muller, Professor of Medicine at Stellenbosch University, is awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Humanities at Lund University.
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Arts and culture, which stimulate self-reflection, questioning and innovation, help us to achieve a better understanding of society and ourselves. They also give us the opportunity to entertain hopes and visions and imagine possible futures, which in turn provides the opportunity to improve our world and the human condition.