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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The world’s smallest flightless bird can be found on Inaccessible Island in the middle of the South Atlantic. Less than 100 years ago, researchers believed that this species of bird once wandered there on land extensions now submerged in water, and therefore named it Atlantisia. In a new study led by biologists at Lun

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-solve-mystery-bird-atlantis - 2026-04-23

Since the discovery of graphene twenty years ago, physicists have been looking for materials that consist of two-dimensional layers. This study is about a newly emerging family, the transition metal halides. “Transition metal halides are a new class of van der Waals materials that we have identified as an ideal platform for many-body engineering. We are very enthusiastic about this class of materi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/robust-and-versatile-platform-many-body-engineering - 2026-04-23

Även om Sverige har kommit långt, finns det alltid mer att göra för att skapa ett mer inkluderande samhälle. Det stod klart när tillgänglighetsforskaren Mikiko Terashima från Dalhousie University, Kanada gästade en CASE Scientific Session vid Lunds universitet. Terashima leder forskningsenheten Planering och design för jämlikhet, inkludering och hälsa i samhället (PEACH). Hon forskar på metoder so

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/de-minst-horda-ar-de-verkliga-tillganglighetsexperterna - 2026-04-23

Sustainability week is an annual event in Lund organised as a joint venture by Lund University and Lund municipality. As usual, researchers from the Faculty of Social Sciences participate in several interesting events. Come and listen to your colleagues! The week serves as a platform for bringing together ideas, for cross-disciplinary collaborations, for raising public awareness and for inspiring

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/social-scientists-sustainability-week-5-10-may - 2026-04-23

We spoke with Alex Vermeulen, Director of the ICOS ERIC Carbon Portal, about the latest World Meteorological Organization report, the Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, for which Alex serves as editor. Published in October – in time to provide the latest data to the COP30 meeting – the report describes the largest year-on-year rise in CO₂ levels since records began in the 1950s. Alex shares his thoughts on

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/record-rise-co2-levels-insights-alex-vermeulen-director-icos-eric-carbon-portal - 2026-04-23

We are now announcing the opportunity for project support of up to SEK 150,000 (including overhead costs) to enable artists, artistic researchers and researchers from other scientific disciplines to learn from each other in an open dialogue and exploratory environment.  The aim of ArtCollab is to enable artists, artistic researchers, and researchers from other scientific disciplines to learn from

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/call-project-funding-artcollab - 2026-04-23

In Swedish below   From the intranet Skånes University Hospital New radiation technology adapts in real time to the tumor's movements during treatment Skåne University Hospital is the first in the Nordic region with a new technology in radiotherapy where the beam follows the movement of the cancer tumor during the treatment. The technology, currently used on patients with prostate cancer, means th

https://www.msf-malmo.lu.se/article/new-radiation-technology-adapts-real-time-tumors-movements-during-treatment - 2026-04-23

The Sparbanken Skåne Center for Sustainable Enterprising (SSCEN) at Lund University and Sparbanksstiftelsen Finn award an annual thesis prize to encourage business and engineering students to contribute with valuable knowledge on how to achieve a sustainability transformation. To be considered for the prize, the thesis should be written for obtaining a master’s degree in business studies at LUSEM

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/call-nominations-sustainability-prize-masters-theses-2024 - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUCSUS’ researcher Torsten Krause reflects on why the study about ocean acidification - of which he is a co-author - was selected to feature in an article in Science for Environment Policy.Science for Environment Policy is a new service published by the European Commission's Environment Directorate-General, and is sen

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-research-feature-science-environment-policy - 2026-04-23

As of January 1, EpiHealth has new board members. The board consists of researchers from both Lund University and Uppsala University. Karin Broberg is a professor of occupational and environmental medicine and her research focuses on how the environment - via the job or surroundings - can affect the body and cause disease. She uses various biomarkers in studies on humans, so-called molecular epide

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/three-new-board-members-epihealth - 2026-04-23

Tuesday 15 August is Arrival Day, the day when Lund University welcomes new international students. In autumn 2023, 4,000 international students have been accepted for studies at Lund University. About a quarter of those are exchange students studying at Lund for a semester or a year. The remaining 3,000 include program students at undergraduate and advanced level as well as Double degree, Joint p

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/arrival-day-4000-new-international-students-admitted - 2026-04-23

Sharing housing with non-family members has increasingly become a way to reduce costs while pursuing autonomous yet communal living throughout the life course. But is it as easy as it sounds? What might be the implications of new forms of shared housing be on the residents, and what happens when shared household tasks can be performed by staff, for a fee? Sharing housing with non-family members ha

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-article-possible-implications-new-forms-shared-housing-what-do-we-share-when-dirty-work-daily - 2026-04-23

The research project has been rewarded SEK 1.8 million from the R&D fund of the Swedish Tourism and Hospitality Industry. The aim of the research project is to create new knowledge about the role of the tourism industry in vulnerable areas with a particular focus on socially sustainable place attractiveness. At first glance, it seems excellent to create attractive tourist destinations in vulnerabl

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/attractiveness-marginalized-places-conditions-tourism-vulnerable-areas - 2026-04-23

It has been a good summer for LU. The call for applications in the spring for the EU’s framework programme for research and innovation, Horizon Europe, has resulted in approved grants for 40 new projects. The success has been on a broad front, involving researchers from seven of our faculties. The approved projects are as follows: 4 ERC Starting Grants 1 ERC Proof of Concept 22 collaborative proje

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-receives-grants-40-eu-projects - 2026-04-24

The LU Glossary, which provides a Swedish-English and English-Swedish glossary of commonly used terms relating to Lund University, is now available on the Staff Pages. Previously only available on the Academic Writing in English at Lund University (AWELU) website of the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, the LU Glossary is intended primarily as a source for looking up the British English

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-glossary-moves-staff-pages - 2026-04-24

Digital degree certificates will be introduced in April as part of the University’s focus on innovation, digitalisation and sustainability. This means that degree certificates no longer need to be printed out on paper and sent by post. The processing of degree certificates will be faster, smoother and more secure for students, doctoral students and administrators. The change applies to all first,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/digital-degree-certificates-be-introduced - 2026-04-24

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. International experts has on behalf of the Swedish Research Council evaluated the first five years activity of Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC). The half time evaluation is underlying for the continous grant for the coming five years. All together the rating is "Very well accomplished". 2006 the Research Council

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/scientific-grade-world-class-commendation-and-resumed-confidence - 2026-04-23

For two weeks in May, teaching staff and students from Zhytomyr University experienced surroundings other than the state of war that prevails in their home country. In Sweden, they had teaching sessions on reflective thinking and, not least, a break from the war. The Lund University School of Aviation (TFHS) has had an exchange with Zhytomyr University, a Ukrainian university that focuses on techn

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ukrainian-students-and-researchers-visited-school-aviation - 2026-04-24

Over the past year, the health service has witnessed an increasing number of patients with long-term effects of Covid-19, including chronic symptoms that suggest POTS. POTS is a condition that causes the pulse to race when you stand up. Until now, too little has been known about POTS as a complication following a Covid infection, but researchers from Lund University and Karolinska Institutet have

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/case-study-sheds-light-pots-connection-long-covid - 2026-04-23

In a historic decision, Brazil's Supreme Court has voted down the agricultural lobby's attempt to limit Indigenous People's land rights. Sustainability researcher Torsten Krause is cautiously optimistic about the decision, which he believes is positive for both human rights and biodiversity, but fears that it could lead to increased deforestation and mining in Brazil's neighboring countries. – It

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/strengthened-rights-indigenous-people-can-reduce-deforestation-brazil - 2026-04-23