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The Middle East and North African region lose about $13 billion a year because of increasing sand and dust storms. By combining learnings from artificial intelligence and 3000-year-old sustainable methods, researchers might be on the way to finding out how to mitigate the damages. Sand and dust storms cause damage to crops, human and animal health, buildings and infrastructure, and force shutdowns

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sand-and-dust-storm-research-finds-answers-ai-and-ancient-knowledge - 2026-07-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A scientific collaboration organised by the Department of Food Science, Copenhagen University in association with Danish Ministry of External Affairs, Danish Ministry of Food and Environment, Danish Embassy in India and Indian Embassy in Denmark. A scientific workshop was organised on 6th and 7th of September the Depa

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/report-indo-danish-workshop - 2026-07-03

What happens when 200 high school students step inside a research center for a full day of science? Curiosity ignites, questions multiply, and for many, new futures begin to feel possible. At the end of March, Lund Stem Cell Center welcomed students from Lars Erik Larsson gymnasiet in Lund, Söderslättsgymnasiet in Trelleborg, and Malmö Borgarskola, Malmö Latinskola, and Sjölins Gymnasium in Malmö

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/unistem-day-2026-opening-door-life-science - 2026-07-03

During the winter, the Sustainability Fund opened a call for proposals to test solutions to sustainability challenges in the organisation. Lund University is deeply committed to its sustainability strategy and sustainability plan, aiming for remarkable achievements in this area. We know that change requires new ideas. That's why staff at Lund University have the opportunity to seek funding to addr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-ideas-sustainable-workplace-gets-funding - 2026-07-04

With 10,000 new cases a year, prostate cancer is the most common cancer type in Sweden. To create equal, accessible and high-quality prostate cancer care, Region Skåne has introduced Organised prostate cancer testing, OPT. "Anyone who wants to should be allowed to be tested for prostate cancer. Studies show that early detection lowers long-term mortality", says Anders Bjartell, one of Sweden’s lea

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/organised-prostate-cancer-testing-provide-more-equal-care - 2026-07-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. It is well known that type 2 diabetes raises the risk of dementia. The reasons for this are less clear, but one explanation could be insulin resistance in the brain, according to Malin Wennström, a researcher at Lund University´s Molecular Memory Research Unit. She has received EUR 700,000 from the Swedish Research Co

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/diabetes-link-dementia-be-examined - 2026-07-03

Swedish old-growth forests store 83 percent more carbon than managed forests, according to a new study from Lund University. The difference is substantially larger than previous estimates and is mainly due to large carbon stocks in the soil. The study, published in the scientific journal Science, is the most comprehensive mapping of how much carbon is stored in Swedish old-growth forests to date.

https://www.science.lu.se/article/old-growth-forests-store-lot-more-carbon-managed-forests - 2026-07-03

With the Öresund as a backdrop, at the top and far end of the Ångbåtsbron bridge in the beautiful new premises of the Chamber of Commerce of Southern Sweden in Malmö, the winners of the SSCEN Sustainability Award for master’s theses 2023 received prize cheques, diplomas and high praise from the centre's management team and advisory committee, as well as from the companies that have gained new know

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/brilliant-ideas-sustainability-students-honored-sscen - 2026-07-03

Swedish old-growth forests store 83 percent more carbon than managed forests, according to a new study from Lund University. The difference is substantially larger than previous estimates and is mainly due to large carbon stocks in the soil. The study, published in the scientific journal Science, is the most comprehensive mapping of how much carbon is stored in Swedish old-growth forests to date.

https://www.mgeo.lu.se/en/article/old-growth-forests-store-lot-more-carbon-managed-forests - 2026-07-03

Paul Bourgine, research group leader at Lund Stem Cell Center and the Wallenberg Center for Molecular Medicine at Lund University, has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to investigate how the human bone marrow microenvironment can regulate the function of immune populations. The funding will support the development of advanced research models aimed at revealing previously unknown interactions

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/paul-bourgine-awarded-erc-consolidator-grant-investigate-how-human-bone-marrow-may-influence-immune - 2026-07-03

In the Cardiac MR group in Lund, great importance is placed on personal development and leadership training. “When recruiting new members, the most important thing is not what is written in the CV, but the personal qualities and the willingness to develop in collaboration with others" says Henrik Engblom. "PhD students are trained to work for the whole, beyond their own personal interests”, says H

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/trust-key-successful-collaborations - 2026-07-03

The first decades of the 21st century have been marked by crisis. Anna Zemskova, who recently defended her dissertation in constitutional law at Lund University, points to two crucial factors for protecting the rule of law in the EU during economic emergencies. In her thesis, Anna Zemskova emphasizes the importance of protecting the rule of law in the EU, which is defined in Article 2 of the Treat

https://www.law.lu.se/article/important-not-take-rule-law-granted-europe - 2026-07-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. There has been no known link between diabetes and vitamin A -- until now. A new study suggests that the vitamin improves the insulin producing β-cell´s function.The researchers initially discovered that insulin-producing beta-cells contain a large quantity of a cell surface receptor for vitamin A. "There are no unnece

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/role-vitamin-diabetes - 2026-07-03

A new compilation containing statistics on the status of gender equality at Lund University has been presented. It shows that regarding professors, women are still in the minority at 31% (December 2022). If you compare gender regarding professors, women are still in the minority at 31% (December 2022), although the percentage of women has increased by 7% over 10 years. The percentage of newly recr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-compilation-over-gender-equality-presented - 2026-07-04

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. It is still unclear how much students and staff will be on campus in the autumn, but a gradual return is being planned. Discussions are also being held as to whether technical and administrative staff will be able to continue working from home after the pandemic. At the University, teaching staff and researchers have

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-are-we-work-autumn - 2026-07-03

The graduating students of the new MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice are working intensively on their final projects this Spring. On April 9 - 16 they invite you all for a preview of what is to come, when they present work-in-progress showings both at Malmö Theatre Academy, Skånes Dansteater and Community Kultur Centrum. This is not their final showings, those will take place in May at Malmö

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/ma-work-progress-showings-2025 - 2026-07-03

The 13th of September Carin Rehncrona defended her doctoral dissertation “Payments: Understanding the use of retail payment service platforms in the era of digitalisation”. The thesis explores the role of digital platforms in modern payment systems and examines how consumers and retailers choose and use payment in different contexts. Payment is a crucial element of purchasing, and its main feature

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-doctoral-thesis-about-retail-payment-services - 2026-07-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Indian women are younger and leaner than Swedish women when they develop gestational diabetes, a new study from Lund University Diabetes Centre 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 i

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/gestational-diabetes-india-and-sweden - 2026-07-03

Have you made adjustments to your garden to make it more welcoming for pollinators? If so, you have probably made a valuable contribution, according to a new study from Lund University. The researchers evaluated the national ‘Operation: Save the Bees’ campaign, and their results indicate that what private individuals do in their gardens really can make a positive difference. The fact that pollinat

https://www.science.lu.se/article/what-you-do-your-garden-help-pollinators-works - 2026-07-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. One of the main purposes of Mohammadhassan Safavi’s PhD thesis is to leverage machine learning algorithms to predict where users activities should be done to incur minimum cost. Cost could be energy consumption, service quality degradation, service delay and so on. The thesis also covers many other aspects from reduci

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/how-use-machine-learning-decide-where-do-what-edge-networks-0 - 2026-07-03