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Solar storms and the particles they release result in spectacular phenomena such as auroras, but they can also pose a serious risk to our society. In extreme cases they have caused major power outages, and they could also lead to breakdowns of satellites and communication systems. According to a study published today in Nature Communications, solar storms could be much more powerful than previousl

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/traces-enormous-solar-storms-ice-greenland-and-antarctica - 2026-07-11

Lack of habitats and climate change – parameters that scientists know affect the number of pollinators in the world. But exactly how big is the effect and what else contributes to the decline of bees and bumblebees? This has Maria Blasi i Romero tried to find out in her dissertation which will be presented on November 26. A sure sign of spring is the buttery yellow rapeseed fields that every year

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/modelling-survival-bumblebees - 2026-07-11

The City of Lund and Lund University have approved a joint strategy to foster the local innovation environment and business community. This means that efforts to attract companies and talent and to bolster Lund’s international position are now being stepped up. “It sends out a strong signal that we speak with one voice. Sweden ranks high in terms of patents from academia. Lund University is third

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-statement-intent-city-lund - 2026-07-12

That eating plenty of vegetables, wholegrains and legumes is beneficial for health is well known. More surprising, however, is that people who eat in a environmentally-friendly way also display nutritional values that are better than researchers had expected. This is shown in a new study from Lund University. The EAT–Lancet diet is a global dietary guideline developed to promote both human health

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/climate-friendly-diet-yielded-unexpectedly-strong-nutritional-outcomes - 2026-07-11

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Världsdiabetesdagen firas den 14 november, Frederick Bantings födelsedag. Han har fått äran av att 1921 ha upptäckt insulinet. För nästan 2000 år sedan gav den turkiske läkaren Aretaios sjukdomen sitt namn. ”Det syns mig som om sjukdomen bör kallas diabetes – något som liknar ett vattenrör, därför att vätskan inte s

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/historia-diabetes-en-underlig-sjukdom - 2026-07-11

I en tid då forskare ständigt måste anpassa sig till nya digitala verktyg, ökade krav på synlighet och snabba tekniska förändringar, är det lätt att känna sig överväldigad. För att möta dessa utmaningar har naturvetenskapliga biblioteket tagit initiativet att lansera kunskapsserien "Quick Bites for Researchers". Serien är ett digitalt möte där fakultetens forskande personal, inklusive doktorander,

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/internt/artikel/vara-bibliotekarier-guidar-forskare-med-digitala-kunskapsbitar - 2026-07-11

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/moving-towards-unified-web-experience-students - 2026-07-11

Excuse the mess! Right now we are revising the Swedish version of our website education.lu.se. Our English website is next in line. Photo: Shivendu Shukla from Unsplash.com. Our website education.lu.se was created during the pandemic and has grown organically since then. A lot of the material has become outdated, and it's time for a thorough revision. We are currently in the process of cleaning up

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/we-are-rebuilding-read-about-revision-educationluse - 2026-07-11

Anders Uhlin has together with Håkan Johansson and Malin Arvidson published the article “Capital and Closure in the EU Field. Advancement in the European Economic and Social Committee” in Journal of Common Market Studies. The article explores what it takes to advance to the top of an EU institution (the European Economic and Social Committee). The article combines Bourdieu’s theories of field and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-career-advancement-eu-institution - 2026-07-11

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. En effekt av en överambitiös målsättning med blodsockerkontrollen är många insulinkänningar vilka ibland är farliga och förstör livskvaliteten för barn och ungdomar. Ett bra HbA1c är varken för högt eller för lågt. Så skriver Johnny Ludvigsson, professor emeritus och barnöverläkare i Linköping i Läkartidningen. diab

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/pressa-inte-blodsockret-till-farligt-laga-varden - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. People who trust others are less likely to die than those who are distrusting, conclude sociologist Jan Mewes and colleagues in “Trust, happiness and mortality: Findings from a prospective US population-based survey”, published in Social Science & Medicine. The effects of generalised trust - the belief that others, in

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/survival-advantages-people-who-trust-strangers - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Up to 45 per cent of all deaths in industrialised countries are caused by fibrotic diseases. Through boundary-crossing research and the high-tech MAX IV laboratory in Lund it is possible to increase the knowledge of fibrosis – bringing a cure closer. ”Fibrosis is a form of scarring that can affect all types of damaged

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/high-tech-collaboration-supports-fibrosis-research - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NANOWIRE WEEK will take place at the end of May 2017 in Lund, Sweden. Nanowire Week is the merger of two long-standing workshops, NANOWIRES and the Nanowire Growth Workshop, and is the foremost event worldwide for all areas of nanowire research. The aim of Nanowire Week is to promote lively discussion on all areas of

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanowire-week-2017 - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUMES student, Hanna Geschewski, has just come back to Sweden after she was temporarily stranded in Nepal during fieldwork for her thesis. In this interview, she reflects on the impact of the corona outbreak on her own studies, and on the society in Nepal, where the socio-economic consequences of global and national m

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/reflections-corona-pandemic-lumes-student-hanna-geschewski - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUMES student, Hanna Geschewski, has just come back to Sweden after she was temporarily stranded in Nepal during fieldwork for her thesis. In this interview, she reflects on the impact of the corona outbreak on her own studies, and on the society in Nepal, where the socio-economic consequences of global and national m

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/interview-lumes-student-hanna-geschewski-about-impact-corona-pandemic-nepal - 2026-07-11

INTERVJU. Margaret McNamee, professor i brandteknik, är nu en del av LTH:s ledning. Hon kommer att arbeta med särskilt ansvar för forskningsfrågor – och har redan idag siktet inställt på att ytterligare vässa arbetet med LTH:s högklassiga forskningsinfrastruktur. Vill du först nämna något som många inte visste om dig?– Jag är född och uppvuxen i Australien, och kom till Sverige 1986 bland annat fö

https://www.lthin.lth.se/artikel/2024/det-kandes-ratt-eftersom-jag-intresserat-mig-strategisk-utveckling-av-lth - 2026-07-11

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. – Det ger en sällsynt tillfredsställelse att kunna hjälpa till och lösa problem åt folk på jobbet, säger Patrik Sonestad, gladlynt oboist och Saabfantast – och ansvarig för LUMAC, tjänsten som ger medarbetare med Mac-datorer service. Patrik Sonestad har många strängar på sin lyra. Patrik Sonestad har aldrig måndagså

https://www.lu.se/artikel/mac-guru-med-smak-saab-och-oboe - 2026-07-11

Universitetet är med i klimatsamarbetet CoAction Lund och i vår kommer alla deltagande organisationer tävla mot varandra inom hållbar pendling. För att tävla kan du välja på att cykla, åka kollektivt, samåka bil eller gå till arbetet. Tävlingen sträcker sig över fem veckor, 28 april – 30 maj och avslutas med prisutdelning och fest den 3 juni.  Nu är anmälan till CoAction Lunds tävling i hållbar pe

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/gor-din-pendling-till-en-vinnande-vana-var-med-och-tavla-om-fina-priser - 2026-07-12

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A researcher who made invisible female labour visible and had her hypotheses that efficiency thinking in healthcare is neither good nor cheap confirmed when her own husband became ill. Rosmari Eliasson-Lappalainen is a pioneer in elderly research. Photo: Gunnar Menander You could say that Rosmari Eliasson-Lappalainen

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/efficiency-mindset-inappropriate-elderly-care - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Is the gender-agenda the hero or enemy of equal opportunity in science? The gender-agenda is still-going-strong and in the news….all over the news. Sweden has a political party dedicated to gender equality and a couple of weeks ago the Nordic Forum 2014 was held in Malmö. Recently, and more locally the faculties (at l

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/epws-2014-report-wings - 2026-07-11