Photo: MIRMAXSTOCK About 540 million years ago, our planet suddenly erupted with life, filling our oceans with a diversity of complex life. This is known as the Cambrian explosion, and for a long time scientists agreed it was triggered by a rise in oxygen levels in the atmosphere. But new research from Emma Hammarlund at Lund University is turning the tables completely on what scientists thought t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-animal-life-exploded-earth - 2025-08-21

"The voices of the survivors make clear how incredibly fragile a democracy is; how quickly the moral foundations of a society can crumble and make the unthinkable possible." Says Erik Renström, Vice-Chancellor of Lund University.    Ten years’ work has paid off – UNESCO has added the unique archive of 500 in-depth interviews with Holocaust survivors to the Memory of the World Register. This means

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ravensbruck-archive-lund-receives-memory-world-status - 2025-08-21

“Today’s guidelines recommend stepwise addition of lipid-lowering treatment. But it’s often the case that this escalation takes too long, it’s ineffective and patients are lost to follow-up", says Margrét LeósdóttirPhoto: Åsa Hansdotter Patients suffering from myocardial infarction who receive early add-on lipid-lowering medication have a significantly better prognosis than those who receive add-o

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/simple-medication-can-save-lives-cardiac-patients - 2025-08-21

"We could potentially deploy these bacteria to capture methane that is released by diverse sources, from livestock farms to thawing permafrost", says Vasili Hauryliuk. Photo: iStock What if we could fight climate change using bacteria that live on air? That’s the vision behind a newly funded international research project led by scientists from Lund University, the University of Tromsø, and Harvar

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/living-air-scientists-enlist-arctic-bacteria-fight-climate-change - 2025-08-21

Central Asian States. Photo: CC A consortium helmed by Lund University in Sweden has been awarded a major EU grant to establish an international doctoral programme on the theme of society and law in authoritarian states in Central Asia. The aim is to promote democratisation and positive social development. The programme will involve 17 doctoral students from the consortium’s 14 universities in Eur

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sek-60-million-doctoral-programme-authoritarian-asian-states - 2025-08-21

Researchers Maria Svensson Coelho and Hannah Blossom perform winter sampling of the green alga Chlamydomonas in Lake Krageholmssjön. (Photo: Karin Rengefors) Humans and animals are not the only ones affected by viruses. Unicellular organisms can also be attacked. In a new study, scientists establish that green algae can carry latent giant virus DNA in their genome. Biology researchers at Lund Univ

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unicellular-green-algae-may-carry-giant-virus-dna-their-genome - 2025-08-21

Photo: Pexels Me time, couple time and more free time in everyday life. Many people wish they had more time – but is there a sustainable approach to time? Historian David Larsson Heidenblad is looking for the answer. In many Swedish homes there is a well-thumbed copy of Bodil Jönsson’s book Ten Thoughts about Time, a book that sold over 600,000 copies 20 years ago. In the book, the author discusse

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sustainable-relationship-time-it-possible - 2025-08-21

The researchers could see an increase in the number of pregnancies and a relative number of 38% more babies born among women who received hormone therapy that matched their gene variation compared with those who did not. Photo: iStock Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have conducted a clinical study to show how a woman’s genetic profile provides information on which hormone treatment is mos

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/higher-success-rate-using-simple-oral-swab-test-ivf - 2025-08-21

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, part of the global economic elite (Photos: Wikicommons) Who are the people that make up the world’s economic elite – and do they differ between countries? In a new, unique database, an international team of researchers has compiled individual data from 16 countries that together account for a third of the world’s population and more than half of the world

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ten-things-research-tells-us-about-global-economic-elite - 2025-08-21

Marie Jönsson, grant manager Stem Cell Center and Mattias Magnusson, director of RAMP-UP at the Lund Research School in Stem Cell Biology and group leader at the Stem Cell Center. Photo: Alexis Bento Luis Lund University in Sweden has been awarded an EU grant of 8.3 million euros for a new international doctoral programme in regenerative medicine and advanced therapy medicinal products. The aim is

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/83-million-euros-doctoral-programme-regenerative-medicine-and-atmp - 2025-08-21

The deck was used by US soldiers to identify Iraq's most wanted during the 2003 invasion. Photo: Lund University Passports issued by fallen empires, decks of cards from the Iraq war, deceased Ukrainian students’ uncollected diplomas and much more. A new museum in Lund is collecting artefacts that show how international law affects people's lives. The initiative is being led by international law re

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unique-museum-displays-war-artefacts-and-human-side-international-law - 2025-08-21

Archaeologist Greer Jarrett at Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for three years. He can now show that the Vikings sailed farther away from Scandinavia, and took routes farther from land, than was previously believed to have been possible. In his latest study, he has found evidence of a decentralised network of ports, located on islands and peninsulas, which pr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/archaeologist-sailing-viking-makes-unexpected-discoveries - 2025-08-21

Photo: Mostphotos/KASPER NYMANN For over 60 years, scientists have tried to determine whether plants are pollinated primarily during the day or at night — without reaching a clear conclusion. Now, a major research review from Lund University in Sweden has revealed that nighttime pollinators play just as significant a role as daytime species in 90 percent of the cases studied. Most of us know how i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nocturnal-pollinators-just-important-their-daytime-colleagues - 2025-08-21

Arab American University Palestine and Birzeit University. Foto: Mostfa Zoabi and Ahmad Sandouka Lund University is initiating collaboration with two higher education institutions in the West Bank in Palestine. This makes it possible for Palestinian students, doctoral students and teaching staff to come to Lund on exchanges with their living costs covered by grants. "There is a great deal of knowl

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-expands-collaboration-higher-education-institutions-palestine - 2025-08-21

Bengt Zöller and his fellow researchers have now identified the strongest genetic risk factor since Factor V Leiden was discovered. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter Blood clots can form in both arteries and veins. However, the reasons behind them differ, as do the consequences and the chances of preventing blood clots. In Sweden, almost half of all cases of venous thrombosis have a genetic explanation. A tea

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-gene-variants-significantly-increase-risk-blood-clots - 2025-08-21

“This investment strengthens Lund University’s position as a leading research university, both nationally and internationally,” says Erik Renström Vice-Chancellor of Lund University. The search is on for 25 researchers from around the world in Lund University’s largest ever international recruitment drive. The main focus will be on AI research and other areas in which the University has a strategi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-launches-largest-ever-global-recruitment-drive-researchers - 2025-08-21

(Image: Mostphotos) The most important mineral in today's electric car batteries is lithium. China completely dominates the market, with no extraction taking place in Europe. However, a new study shows that there is great potential for European lithium production, which would bring improvements in competitiveness, the climate and security. The study also points out that there are complex internati

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-lithium-mines-could-cut-eu-imports-half - 2025-08-21

The study's results indicate a link between the food we eat and serious heart problems caused by atherosclerotic plaques, such as heart attacks. Photo: iStock A Swedish multi-centre study led by researchers at Lund University shows a link between low fibre consumption and the presence of unstable or high-risk plaque in coronary arteries – the type of plaque that can trigger blood clots and cause h

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/link-identified-between-low-fibre-diet-and-more-dangerous-type-atherosclerotic-plaque-coronary - 2025-08-21

Johan Malmström, Eric Warrant and Anders Rantzer. Johan Malmström, Eric Warrant and Anders Rantzer have all been awarded ERC Advanced Grants. Along with other grants from the European Research Council (ERC), this makes it Lund University’s most successful year ever with a total of 15 granted projects. The ERC Advanced Grant is aimed at established researchers who have carried out significant resea

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/three-researchers-receive-erc-advanced-grants-lund-universitys-most-successful-year-ever - 2025-08-21

How can Sweden better protect public health during the next pandemic? A new study from Lund University shows that during the Covid-19 pandemic, new arrivals to Sweden were excluded from information, despite good intentions on the part of the authorities. This may have influenced their willingness to get vaccinated. “Information was provided, but was insufficient in terms of regularity and accessib

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gaps-vaccine-information-new-arrivals-sweden-during-pandemic - 2025-08-21