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6 Nov 2025
Lund archaeologist awarded ERC Synergy Grant
Archaeologist Peter Jordan has together with colleagues from the UK and the US received the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant. The research aims to shed new light on the demography of ...
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30 Oct 2025
The root vegetable that could have replaced Halloween pumpkins
Feeling unmotivated to carve another jack-o’-lantern out of a slimy pumpkin? As luck would have it, at least you don’t have to struggle with a rock-hard turnip. The pumpkin’s statu...
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27 Oct 2025
New findings on how breastfeeding affects the skeleton could boost development of drugs against osteoporosis
Pregnancies do not weaken a woman’s skeleton. Breastfeeding, however, can reduce bone density considerably. These are findings from a research report produced at Lund University in...
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23 Oct 2025
Warmer Nordic springs double the incidence of avian malaria
A unique long-term study, in which biological samples were collected from the same population of blue tits over a 30-year period, shows that rising spring temperatures have doubled...
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22 Oct 2025
Award for environmental pioneer – has a message for academia
Henrik Smith has won a major international ecology prize. He is also keen to emphasise the importance of research activity’s interaction with society.
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17 Oct 2025
New study reveals the innermost secrets of spaghetti
What keeps spaghetti from disintegrating in boiling water? The answer, according to new research, is gluten. The amount of salt in the water also has an unexpected significance.
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15 Oct 2025
Type 1 diabetes increased among young people during the pandemic
During the Covid-19 pandemic, there was an unexpected increase in the number of cases of type 1 diabetes in Sweden, particularly among children under five and young adult men. The ...
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14 Oct 2025
Researchers take a step towards improved antibody therapy
Antibody-based drugs often become too thick to be injected at high concentrations. Now, new research can explain why this happens—knowledge that could eventually lead to easily inj...
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13 Oct 2025
Music still resonates in war-torn Ukraine
The story of the Ukrainian music scene since the Russian invasion is one of resilience. Even if it has meant playing in the underground Metro, or in cold bomb shelters with no elec...
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