Wolfgang Knorr, a researcher at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, is one of three authors of a high-profile climate article recently published in The Conversation. The article, about our future carbon footprint, has received widespread coverage after being shared on Twitter by Greta Thunberg. What prompted you to write the article in The Conversation? – There is a false o

https://www.science.lu.se/article/researcher-was-given-helping-hand-greta-thunberg - 2025-09-05

Colonisation of remote islands has contributed to irreversible changes in their ecosystems. This finding emerges from an international study to which researchers from Lund University contributed. The analysis of 5000-year-old pollen enabled the research team to reveal the islands’ vulnerability. In the new study, published in the research journal Science, a research team investigated how human act

https://www.science.lu.se/article/remote-islands-extremely-sensitive-human-impact - 2025-09-05

In the study, the researchers analysed foraminifera brought up by drilling into the ocean floor. Photo: Helena L Filipsson. They are called foraminifera and have lived in the world’s oceans for 545 million years. A research team has established in a new study that some species of this protist will probably cope swimmingly even in a climate-impacted future. This is due to their ability to respire n

https://www.science.lu.se/article/microscopic-foraminifera-likely-winners-tomorrows-increasingly-deoxygenated-oceans - 2025-09-05

Torbjörn Sjöstrand. Photo: Private. Torbjörn Sjöstrand, post-retirement professor at the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, has been awarded the EPS High Energy and Particle Physics Prize. This desirable prize, which has previously been given to several Nobel laureates, is awarded by the European Physical Society. Congratulations on the prize, Torbjörn, how does it feel? Well, of cou

https://www.science.lu.se/article/prestigious-prize-awarded-particle-physicist - 2025-09-05

Fredrik Terfelt and Birger Schmitz dissolved almost ten tonnes of sedimentary rocks from ancient seabeds. Photo: Johan Joelsson. For the first time, a unique study conducted at Lund University in Sweden has tracked the meteorite flux to Earth over the past 500 million years. Contrary to current theories, researchers have determined that major collisions in the asteroid belt have not generally affe

https://www.science.lu.se/article/earths-meteorite-impacts-over-past-500-million-years-tracked - 2025-09-05

The middle spotted woodpecker has disappeared from Sweden, while the European fire-bellied toad has been reintroduced. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Researchers in Lund, Copenhagen and Norwich have shown that harmful mutations present in the DNA play an important – yet neglected – role in the conservation and translocation programs of threatened species. “Many species are threatened by extinction, bo

https://www.science.lu.se/article/genomics-informed-decisions-can-help-save-species-extinction - 2025-09-05

The research team in Lund. From the left: Ivan Scheblykin, Alexander Kiligaridis, Aymen Yangui. Photo: Alexander Kiligaridis. For the first time, a research team has succeeded in collecting diverse signatures of electronic properties of perovskite semiconductors in one comprehensive picture. By using a new spectroscopy technique, researchers have managed to produce horse-like two-dimensional diagr

https://www.science.lu.se/article/researchers-lund-university-ride-out-unknown-solar-cell-territories-using-new-technique - 2025-09-05

Artist’s impression of the Gaia space telescope. Image: European Space Agencyy Astronomers at Lund University in Sweden have played a central role in work with the Gaia space telescope. A new research project from the Gaia group in Lund has now been selected as one of two top candidates for the European Space Agency’s prestigious Voyage 2050 initiative. Since Gaia was launched in 2013, the telesco

https://www.science.lu.se/article/lund-university-plays-key-role-new-prestigious-project-map-galaxy - 2025-09-05

A great snipe. Photo: Åke Lindström. Extreme differences in flight altitude between day and night may have been an undetected pattern amongst migratory birds – until now. The observation was made by researchers at Lund University in Sweden in a study of great snipes, where they also measured a new altitude record for migratory birds, irrespective of the species, reaching 8 700 metres. Great snipes

https://www.science.lu.se/article/astonishing-altitude-changes-marathon-flights-migratory-birds - 2025-09-05

Claudia Tocco performing an experiment with a dung beetle at a light-polluted site – on a roof in central Johannesburg. Photo: Marcus Byrne. For the first time, researchers have been able to prove that city lights limit the ability of nocturnal animals to navigate by natural light in the night sky. Instead, they are forced to use streetlamps, neon light or floodlights to orient themselves. The fin

https://www.science.lu.se/article/artificial-light-disrupts-dung-beetles-sense-direction - 2025-09-05

Ten postdoc positions and at least eight doctoral studentships on the 2030 Agenda and sustainable development will be announced at Lund University on 30 August. The announcement is part of the university’s research programme for excellence in sustainable development. Lund University aspires to be a part of the sustainable solution and contribute to the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development. The

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-positions-research-sustainable-development - 2025-09-05

The exoplanet in question was formed at the edge of this protoplanetary disk. Illustration: European Southern Observatory (ESO). By capturing a weak signal from outer space, a research team was able to study the atmosphere of an exoplanet 300 light-years from Earth. The study shows that the planet’s gas envelope contains a specific isotope of carbon, which indicates that it was formed a long way f

https://www.science.lu.se/article/researchers-have-found-carbon-isotopes-exoplanets-atmosphere-first-time - 2025-09-05

Using a supercomputer, the researchers created a high-resolution simulation. Using a supercomputer simulation, a research team at Lund University in Sweden has succeeded in following the development of a galaxy over a span of 13.8 billion years. The study shows how, due to interstellar frontal collisions, young and chaotic galaxies over time mature into spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way. Soon

https://www.science.lu.se/article/how-disorderly-young-galaxies-grow-and-mature - 2025-09-05

Trevor Forsyth. Photo: Kennet Ruona. Lund University has recruited Trevor Forsyth to lead the development of LINXS, Lund Institute of advanced Neutron and X-ray Science. He also takes up the position as professor of biophysics at the Faculty of Medicine. This strategic recruitment is part of Lund University's efforts to develop new research using neutron and synchrotron light techniques - and is a

https://www.science.lu.se/article/top-international-researcher-will-maximise-potential-max-iv-and-ess - 2025-09-05

Physics researchers Peter Samuelsson, on the left, and Ville Maisi show the small brass component that contains connectors, microwave circuits and nanowires. Photo: Simon Wozny. In a pioneering nano experiment, a research team in Lund has succeeded in constructing a new and very efficient microwave photon detector. The discovery could accelerate the development of future quantum computers. Microwa

https://www.science.lu.se/article/successful-experiment-microwaves-could-result-better-quantum-computers - 2025-09-05

Poppen the budgie. Photo: Per Henningsson. How do birds avoid collision when flying in dense foliage and other cramped environments with many obstacles? And what does flying in such complex environments entail for the birds? These were the questions Per Henningsson of Lund University in Sweden pondered before engaging the help of the family’s own pet budgie to get some answers. His study has now b

https://www.science.lu.se/article/pandemic-restrictions-enabled-unique-bird-study - 2025-09-05

One of the two masts at the research station reaches 150 metres straight up in the air from the dense forest. A staff member climbs the mast every other week. Photo: Adam Kristensson. 20 years of measurements are only the beginning. Long-term measurements over several decades are crucial to enable predictions of how airborne particles affect the future climate, according to Lund University researc

https://www.science.lu.se/article/long-term-measurements-show-how-climate-changing - 2025-09-05

The dean of the Faculty of Science Sven Lidin on the overgrown field that will soon start its metamorphosis into the research mecca, Science Village. It is a catalyst that will modernise the Faculty of Science, both at Brunnshög and Sölvegatan. Dean Sven Lidin may have become “nearsighted, flabby and middle-aged” during his ten years in symbiosis with Science Village, but his future visions are mo

https://www.science.lu.se/article/facultys-journey-towards-science-village-brunnshog - 2025-09-05

Oscar Agertz, whose research focuses on the formation of stars and galaxies, was delighted to become a new member. Oscar Agertz, associate senior lecturer at the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, has been elected to the Young Academy of Sweden. Over the next five years he will work to inspire young people and strengthen the role of research in society. “I felt very happy and honoure

https://www.science.lu.se/article/astronomy-researcher-elected-young-academy-sweden - 2025-09-05

The image represents the crater area in which the Perseverance rover collected the images that have now been analysed in the study. Photo: Foto: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU. Using 150 000 images from the Perseverance space rover, an international research team has studied the Western delta in Jezero crater, Mars, revealing evidence of deltas that advanced into a lake. The new discovery not only provides

https://www.science.lu.se/article/analysis-36-billion-year-old-lake-intensifies-search-life-mars - 2025-09-05