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https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/satellites-enable-monitoring-co2-emissions - 2025-12-20

Our brains not only contain learning mechanisms but also forgetting mechanisms that erase “unnecessary” learning. A research group at Lund University in Sweden has now been able to describe one of these mechanisms at the cellular level. The group’s results, published in the international journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), explain a theor

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/brain-forgets-order-conserve-energy - 2025-12-19

Heart failure is known to be more common in certain families but whether this familial transition is caused by genetic or lifestyle factors. By studying adoptees in relation to both their biological parents and adoptive parents, a new population study in Sweden has found that genetic heritage is the dominant factor when it comes to heart failure in these families. “The results of our study do not

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/study-highlights-genetic-risk-heart-failure - 2025-12-19

Researcher Steffen Malkowsky, together with research colleagues from Lund University, Sweden, and the University of Bristol, UK, has achieved a new world record in 5G technology, thereby surpassing the previous record that he himself contributed to last spring. The successful experiment is an important step towards a new type of wireless communication – a system where extremely weak radio signals

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-set-new-5g-world-record-and-earn-multiple-awards - 2025-12-19

Harvard professor Nathan Nunn, creative economist, is the 2020 recipient of the Jan Söderberg Family Prize in Economics and Management. Professor Nunn will receive the Prize on SEK 1 million in Lund, Sweden, and give a lecture on his research on 25 March. Experimental economics and development economics are hot topics, as was seen with the Nobel laurates of 2019. This year’s recipient of the Jan S

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prize-pioneering-knowledge-africas-development - 2025-12-19

The global coronavirus pandemic has hit the tourism industry hard worldwide. Not only that, but it has exposed a lack of resilience to any type of downturn, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden. While the virus may or may not be temporary, the climate crisis is here to stay - and tourism will have to adapt, says Stefan Gössling, professor of sustainable tourism. Tourism has bee

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/what-covid-19-can-teach-tourism-about-climate-crisis - 2025-12-19

Long life is common among bird parents that get help with childcare. This finding comes from researchers at the universities of Lund and Oxford who reviewed data from more than 9,000 studies. Being a parent can be tough. In general, animals that care for many offspring die young, at least in species where parents are not helped by others. However, in some species things are different and parents r

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/bird-parents-receive-help-live-longer - 2025-12-19

Artisanal interpretation of ceramics from the Bronze Age shows that a nine-year-old child could be a highly skilled artisan. This was one of the discoveries presented in a new thesis from Lund University. The thesis explores how an artisanal perspective can contribute to archaeology by providing new insights into archaeological artefacts. “I have found that even the most simple household receptacl

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-archaeological-method-finds-children-were-skilled-ceramists-during-bronze-age - 2025-12-19

Social media provides a new environment that makes it possible to carefully edit the image you want to project of yourself. A study from Lund University in Sweden suggests that many people are prepared to pay to ”filter out” unfavorable information. Economists Håkan Holm and Margaret Samahita have investigated how we curate our social image on the web using game theory. Previous studies have been

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/people-are-willing-pay-curate-their-online-social-image - 2025-12-19

Up to now, researchers have believed that birds stay at home and altruistically help raise younger siblings because this is the only way to pass on genes when you cannot breed yourself. But this idea is only partially true. A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that birds benefit from being helpful because it also increases their chances of reproducing in the future. “The results show t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/birds-help-each-other-partly-selfish-reasons - 2025-12-19

Researchers have created a digital audio platform that can modify the emotional tone of people’s voices while they are talking, to make them sound happier, sadder or more fearful. New results show that while listening to their altered voices, participants’ emotional state change in accordance with the new emotion. “Very little is known about the mechanisms behind the production of vocal emotion”,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/way-you-sound-affects-your-mood - 2025-12-19

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/glasgow-climate-summit-what-it-about-and-why-does-it-matter - 2025-12-19

One result of climate change is that spring is arriving earlier. However, migratory birds are not keeping up with these developments and arrive too late for the peak in food availability when it is time for breeding. By getting the birds to fly a little further north, researchers in Lund, Sweden, and the Netherlands have observed that these birds can give their chicks a better start in life. Globa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/migratory-birds-can-be-taught-adjust-climate-change - 2025-12-20

Symptoms for patients with the gastrointestinal disease IBS improved as much by eating less sugar and starch as for those who followed FODMAP – the diet currently recommended to patients. The results, presented in a new study from Lund University in Sweden, also show that weight loss is greater and sugar cravings are reduced among those who follow the starch and sucrose-reduced diet. Bodil Ohlsson

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cutting-out-sugar-and-starch-effective-ibs-current-recommendations - 2025-12-20

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/high-rates-opioid-prescriptions-osteoarthritis - 2025-12-19

In accidents or terror attacks which are suspected to involve radioactive substances, it can be difficult to determine whether people nearby have been exposed to radiation. But by analysing mobile phones and other objects which come in close contact with the body, it is possible to retrieve important information on radiation exposure. This has been shown by a new thesis from Lund University in Swe

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/your-mobile-phone-can-reveal-whether-you-have-been-exposed-radiation - 2025-12-19

Edouard Berrocal, a researcher in combustion physics at Lund University, has been awarded one of the most prestigious grants available to young researchers: an ERC Starting Grant. The grant is worth EUR 1.5 million and will enable him to spend the next five years investigating what happens in the crucial moment at the start of combustion when the liquid fuel is injected into the chamber and vapori

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erc-starting-grant-researcher-combustion - 2025-12-19

We should not be afraid to joke about one another’s ethnic background. Used with sensitivity, such jokes can instead help to challenge the stereotypical image of immigrants, according to Lund University sociologist Henriette Frees Esholdt, who has studied humour at a multi-ethnic workplace in Denmark. Henriette Frees Esholdt’s study was carried out in a large organisation in the hospitality sector

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/role-humour-multicultural-workplaces - 2025-12-19

What are opinions, what are facts and what are outright lies? The latest PISA assessment clearly shows that children and young adults have difficulties navigating the fast flow of information in society today. When anyone at all can make their voice heard it also becomes more difficult to recognise misleading information and fake news. Together, actors, performing arts teachers and researchers are

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-and-performers-teaching-children-question-fake-news - 2025-12-20

3D-mammography reduces the number of breast cancer cases diagnosed in the period between routine screenings, when compared with traditional mammography, according to a large study from Lund University in Sweden. The results are published in the journal Radiology. “Our results indicate that 3D-mammography, or digital breast tomosynthesis, possibly detects cancers that would otherwise have been diag

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fewer-breast-cancer-cases-between-screening-rounds-3d-mammography - 2025-12-19