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20 Jan 2025
Fermenting seaweed could boost consumption
Fermented seaweed? Those who have tried it think it is much tastier than it sounds, and researchers at Lund University in Sweden are now hoping that acidified seaweed, rather than ...
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17 Jan 2025
Here’s how easily you can catch COVID-19 through the air
The virus winter season has struck – and COVID-19 is still part of everyday life. However, unlike during the pandemic, we now know more about how it spreads through the air we brea...
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13 Jan 2025
Lund University welcomes new international students on Arrival Day
Monday 13 January marks Arrival Day – the day when Lund University welcomes new international students for the spring semester. A total of 767 students have been admitted to the un...
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8 Jan 2025
Is the end of the world nigh?
Apocalyptic beliefs are as old as humankind itself. So, why are we drawn to stories about the finite nature of everything?
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2 Jan 2025
Swedish female ice hockey players in favour of body checking
A first study shows that almost nine out of ten players in the Swedish women's hockey league are in favour of body checking.
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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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3 Dec 2024
Five Lund University researchers to receive ERC Consolidator Grants
Per Augustsson, Enrico Ronchi, Mikkel Brydegaard, Andreas Nord and Yafa Shanneik have each been awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant.
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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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27 Nov 2024
Jon Fosse receives honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts
The Norwegian author and playwright Jon Fosse, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023, is to be conferred with an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Fine and Perfo...
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25 Nov 2024
Pandrug-resistant bacteria from the war in Ukraine are extremely pathogenic
New study shows that the bacterium “Klebsiella pneumoniae, which is resistant to all antibiotics, is also particularly aggressive and dangerous.
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25 Nov 2024
Using light to create bioelectronics inside the body
Bioelectronics research and development of implants made of electrically conductive materials for disease treatment is advancing rapidly. However, bioelectronic treatment is not wi...
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22 Nov 2024
Lund University to start new UN collaboration focusing on water
Lund University and the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) are establishing a joint hub, focusing on water. The initiative will stren...