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Honor och hanar av fiskarten ruda reagerar olika på rovdjursframkallad stress, enligt en ny studie från Lunds universitet. Hanarna förändrar sitt utseende genom att växa på höjden för att undkomma glupska rovfiskar. Denna egenskap saknas helt hos honorna som därför oftare slukas av större fiskar. Vissa djur har utvecklat förmågan att ändra utseende för att försvara sig mot rovdjur om det behövs. S
Med hjälp av en superdatorsimulering har ett forskarlag lyckats följa en galax utveckling under 13,8 miljarder år. Studien visar hur unga och kaotiska galaxer, tack vare interstellära frontalkrockar, med tiden mognar till stabila spiralgalaxer, som exempelvis Vintergatan. Efter big bang för 13,8 miljarder år sedan var världsrymden ett veritabelt vilda västern. Galaxer kolliderade. Stjärnor bildade
https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/lundaforskare-har-kartlagt-hur-obstinata-ungdomsgalaxer-vaxer-upp-och-mognar - 2025-11-19
Vi är glada att kunna presentera institutionens seminarieserie för våren 2025, som kommer att bjuda på en spännande rad talare från hela världen. Seminarierna äger rum varje torsdag kl. 13.15 i Blå hallen i Ekologibyggnaden. Efter föreläsningarna finns det möjlighet för fika och mingel.Nedan hittar du det fullständiga schemat för våren 2025:Alla länkar, utom den till BLAM, leder till personliga we
https://www.biologi.lu.se/internt/artikel/seminarieserien-varen-2025-klar - 2025-11-19
I en ny avhandling från Lunds universitet intervjuar genusvetaren Marco Bacio manliga sexarbetare i Sverige och Italien. Det som förvånade honom mest var att en majoritet av sexarbetarna tillhörde en välutbildad medelklass. Kvinnligt sexarbete – som är långt vanligare än manligt – är väl beforskat runt om i världen. Män som säljer sex däremot har enligt Marco Bacio inte uppmärksammats i samma grad
https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/ofta-hogutbildade-man-som-saljer-sex - 2025-11-19
Också vuxna har bruna fettceller och de gör oss inte feta som det vita fettet. Tvärtom, det bruna fettet omvandlar överskottsenergin till värme. Bakom upptäckten ligger flera olika forskarlag och det allt större vetenskapliga intresset för brunt fett. Senaste numret av New England Journal of Medicine, en av världens mest prestigefyllda tidskrifter, har flera vetenskapliga artiklar och en ledarkomm
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/fettcellerna-som-haller-koll-pa-vikten - 2025-11-20
How much water do we need to drink to stay healthy? How do different diets affect our metabolism? Studies of various hormones in the body are providing diabetes researchers with new answers to these questions. The goal is to develop individualized treatments and dietary recommendations that could lower the risk of developing obesity and diseases such as type 2 diabetes. The endocrine system and th
Population density, and not the proportion of green spaces, has the biggest impact on species richness of pollinators in residential areas. This is the result of a study from Lund University in Sweden of gardens and residential courtyards in and around Malmö, Sweden. The result surprised the researchers, who had expected that the vegetation cover would be more significant.“We have found that, in c
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/high-human-population-density-negative-pollinators - 2025-11-19
Changes in land use have been highlighted as one of the main reasons for the global decline of insects. New research from Lund University, which examined three common Swedish grassland butterflies, shows that changes in land use not only reduce insect numbers. The loss of habitat can also lead to increased inbreeding, especially among specialised species that find it increasingly difficult to move
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/changes-land-use-leads-increased-inbreeding-swedish-butterflies - 2025-11-19
Sometimes healthcare professionals treat patients with opioids such as morphine to relieve symptoms, but there has been a lack of evidence as to whether this helps with severe chronic breathlessness. A randomised Phase 3 study conducted by Swedish and Australian researchers now finds that morphine does not reduce worst breathlessness. The study is published in JAMA. Long term shortness of breath i
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-study-morphine-treatment-people-copd-and-severe-long-term-breathlessness - 2025-11-20
Population density, and not the proportion of green spaces, has the biggest impact on species richness of pollinators in residential areas. This is the result of a study from Lund University in Sweden of gardens and residential courtyards in and around Malmö, Sweden. The result surprised the researchers, who had expected that the vegetation cover would be more significant. “We have found that, in
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/high-human-population-density-negative-pollinators - 2025-11-19
The first time she came to Lund, Rafah Barhoum only stayed for a couple of months. It was 2011 and she was an Erasmus Mundus scholar and taught Arabic. She returned home to Syria, but the war soon drove her back. Now Rafah Barhoum has come to Lund to stay. Rafah Barhoum is happy in Lund, where she teaches Arabic, but misses and worries about her family at home in war-torn Syria. Rafah Barhoum is e
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/i-hold-syria-my-heart - 2025-11-19
During the week of Midsummer, Sweden will inaugurate its largest investment in research ever made – MAX IV Laboratory. “It has been a long process and it feels amazing that all the electrons and light are now working”, says Pro Vice-Chancellor Stacey Ristinmaa Sörensen, responsible for the University’s infrastructure and Professor of Synchrotron Radiation Physics. “We are proud to host MAX IV and
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/time-inaugurate-swedens-largest-research-investment-max-iv - 2025-11-19
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 unnecessary surface receptors in human cells. They all serve a purpose but which, in ma
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/role-vitamin-diabetes - 2025-11-19
Lund University has recruited Trevor Forsyth to lead the development of LINXS, Lund Institute of advanced Neutron and X-ray Science. He also takes up the position as professor of biophysics at the Faculty of Medicine. This strategic recruitment is part of Lund University's efforts to develop new research using neutron and synchrotron light techniques - and is an important step to maximise the pote
https://www.science.lu.se/article/top-international-researcher-will-maximise-potential-max-iv-and-ess - 2025-11-19
The machines have started rolling in at Norunda and are cutting down trees, one by one. Norunda is Sweden’s oldest measuring station for greenhouse gases and it is unique. Following several decades of being surrounded by a hundred-year-old forest, it will instead be surrounded by a clear-cut. - We expect a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions, says professor Natascha Kljun at CEC. The
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/clear-cut-forest-provides-essential-information-climate-research - 2025-11-19
The fight against COVID-19 continues. In Lund, researchers have been awarded a large Vinnova grant to identify a compound that could be used to prevent viral infection, and thus save lives. The project is a co-operation between preclinical, clinical researchers and a company, an efficient way for creating synergies in research. Project Manager for the study is researcher Sinem Tas, Fellow in Darcy
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, some shopping geographies had difficulties while others proved to be more resilient. Devrim Umut Aslan discusses what we can learn from these resilient places. A global pandemic hit the world, radically changing how shoppers shop and how they move around in cities. Sweden’s handling of the pandemic had been rather ‘relaxed’; it had not enforced any strict lock-downs
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/how-maintain-town-centre-retail-times-crisis - 2025-11-19
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, some shopping geographies had difficulties while others proved to be more resilient. Devrim Umut Aslan discusses what we can learn from these resilient places. A global pandemic hit the world, radically changing how shoppers shop and how they move around in cities. Sweden’s handling of the pandemic had been rather ‘relaxed’; it had not enforced any strict lock-downs
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/how-maintain-town-centre-retail-times-crisis - 2025-11-19
The fight against COVID-19 continues. In Lund, researchers have been awarded a large Vinnova grant to identify a compound that could be used to prevent viral infection, and thus save lives. The project is a co-operation between preclinical, clinical researchers and a company, an efficient way for creating synergies in research. Project Manager for the study is researcher Sinem Tas, Fellow in Darcy
Berättelsen om Ukrainas musikscen sedan den ryska invasionen är en historia om motståndskraft. Även om musicerandet har inneburit att spela i tunnelbanan eller i kalla bombskydd har musiker hittat nya vägar för att kunna fortsätta spela. Nu står fem klassiska musiker från Ukraina på scenen i Malmö.Det har gått över tre år sedan Rysslands invasion av Ukraina 2022. Staden Charkiv, hemstad för Ukrain
https://www.konstnarliga.lu.se/artikel/musik-som-trotsar-krig-och-bomber-musiker-fran-krigsharjade-charkiv-nu-i-malmo - 2025-11-19
