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A decisive, visionary leader with the ability to safeguard academic freedom. These are some of the requirements when Lund University recruits the University’s 163rd Vice-Chancellor. Fourteen points. That is the length of the list of…

/article/lund-universitys-requirements-when-recruiting-vice-chancellor- 2025-12-18

Urbanisation and a warmer climate means that more people want to swim in canals, harbours, and urban beaches. However, this means that they may swimming close to where treated wastewater and stormwater are discharged – including bacteria,…

/article/contaminated-bathing-water-easier-detect- 2025-12-18

The institution of the university as we know it today emerged during the Middle Ages and has survived shifts in forms of government and economic systems, wars and periods of unrest. But how sustainable is the university system? Professor…

/article/university-thousand-year-old-institution-must-defend-its-freedom- 2025-12-17

Through the years, most gender norms have been challenged or changed in modern society. Yet each Christmas, a strikingly similar image of Santa Claus appears in the media and in our homes. What is is about Santa Claus that makes him immune…

/article/why-we-accept-santas-traditional-masculinity- 2025-12-16

A fingerprint has been found in the tars used to build the oldest known wooden plank boat in Scandinavia, which provides a direct link to the seaborne raiders who used the boat over 2,000 years ago. By analysing the tar itself, Lund…

/article/fingerprint-ancient-seafarer-found-scandinavias-oldest-plank-boat- 2025-12-15

A blood biomarker yet to be used in cardiac arrest care can give a clearer picture of the extent of brain damage after a cardiac arrest. This has been shown in a large international multicentre study led by researchers at Lund University…

/article/blood-test-reveals-prognosis-after-cardiac-arrest- 2025-12-15

Given the current warming climate, many of us have wondered if snow around Christmas time is slowly becoming a thing of the past. We asked Alex Vermeulen, Director of the ICOS Carbon Portal at Lund University, what Europeans can expect…

/article/can-europeans-still-dream-about-white-christmas- 2025-12-12

Red-backed shrikes fly thousands of kilometres to reach Africa – and they do so with astonishing precision. Aided by new technology, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have been able to track the birds’ journeys in detail. It turns…

/article/new-technology-reveals-migratory-birds-stunning-precision-flight- 2025-12-11

A rare discovery of the book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus has been made at the Lund University Library in Sweden. The book had seemingly been hiding in plain sight for over 100 years, and was only…

/article/rare-copy-copernicus-book-found-lund-university- 2025-12-11

When the late summer sun falls over Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains, the slopes turn purple with blooming heather. Honeybees are moved to the heathlands for the sought-after heather honey, but their presence affects wild bumblebees. An Irish…

/article/honeybees-crowd-out-bumblebees-even-flower-rich-heathlands- 2025-12-10

The evolution of eyesight, how not to disrupt animal flight, and immunotherapies in cancer treatment. Biologists Michael Bok and Cecilia Nilsson, along with medical researcher Paul Bourgine, have been awarded the prestigious ERC…

/article/three-lund-university-researchers-awarded-major-eu-grant- 2025-12-09

Nature is a source of well-being and recovery for many people. However, research shows that there is also a growing number of individuals who experience negative emotions, such as fear, discomfort, or even disgust, toward nature. The…

/article/new-study-challenges-idea-humans-innately-nature-loving- 2025-12-09

Climate solutions exist – so why isn’t more happening? On 9 December, researchers from University of Cambridge and Lund University will gather in Lund and online to try to find answers to how we can accelerate the climate transition. The…

/article/conference-breaking-barriers-climate-solutions- 2025-12-08

Kompetensportalen, Lucat, Lupin, Lubas and LUCRIS. Those are the names of some of Lund University’s administrative systems. They are now also the names of five new bacteriophages that have recently been discovered in the ponds of Lund…

/article/fishing-phages-lund-universitys-botanical-gardens- 2025-12-04

The metal recycling industry is growing, not least due to the use of metals in green energy electronic components. Researchers at Lund University have examined the inhaled air of workers at 13 recycling companies in Sweden. Among the…

/article/harmful-exposure-metal-recycling- 2025-12-04

A new interactive guide identifies the most effective actions you can take for the climate. The interest has been so great that the server hosting the guide crashed temporarily. In 2017, Kimberly Nicholas, professor of sustainability…

/article/new-guide-making-biggest-climate-difference- 2025-12-04

An increasing number of Swedes are getting tattoos and Sweden’s population is now one of the most tattooed in Europe. At the same time, the incidence of melanoma is increasing. A new epidemiological study from Lund University in Sweden…

/article/tattoos-could-be-risk-factor-melanoma- 2025-12-01

Through the DNA analysis of old air samples collected by the Swedish Armed Forces, researchers at Lund University in Sweden can show that spore dispersal of northern mosses has shifted over the past 35 years. It now starts several weeks…

/article/old-air-samples-hint-effects-climate-change- 2025-12-01

The EU’s approval process for a novel perennial, eco-friendly grain with the potential to fundamentally change Europe’s agriculture has dragged on for more than six years. This delay, according to researchers at Lund University, is due to…

/article/decision-new-grain-stuck-eus-regulatory-system- 2025-12-01

Unless Sweden and the EU strengthen their digital autonomy, there is a risk of catastrophic consequences. That is the conclusion of Lund University researcher in computer science, Johan Linåker, who considers that we must begin to think…

/article/how-make-eu-more-digitally-independent- 2025-11-28