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21st century flood risk is affected more by policy than climate threats
New mechanism revealed: How leukemia cells trick the immune system
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9 Oct 2025
Lund University in the top 100 in Times Higher Education ranking
Today, Times Higher Education (THE) published its latest ranking and Lund University has retained its position at 95.
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29 Sep 2025
Can animals laugh?
Many claim that people too easily anthropomorphise animal behaviour. But what’s the story regarding laughter – is it something unique to humans? Cognitive scientist Peter Gärdenfor...
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26 Sep 2025
Secondary forests could be a key factor in climate management – if we protect them in time
By analysing over 100,000 field measurements as well as environmental data, an international research team has created maps that show how and when naturally regrowing forests bind ...
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23 Sep 2025
A detective in the mysterious world of proteins
Gemma Atkinson has been awarded this year’s Eric K. Fernström Prize for particularly promising and successful early-career researchers at Lund University. Her research focuses on b...
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23 Sep 2025
Solar fuel conundrum nears a solution
Solar energy stored in the form of fuel is something scientists hope could partially replace fossil fuels in the future. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden may have solved a ...
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22 Sep 2025
Psychedelics in the treatment of anorexia – a new pilot study
Anorexia nervosa is a serious psychiatric disorder for which there are limited treatment options, and it has one of the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric diagnosis. A pilo...
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22 Sep 2025
Hostile hoots make robins eat less at night
The sound of tawny owls makes young European robins eat less during their southward migration. A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows how the threat from nocturnal predat...
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18 Sep 2025
Scientists solve astronomical riddle
Packed tightly together like twinkling stellar beehives, these globular clusters are made up of hundreds of thousands of stars. Now, for the first time, a team of scientists can re...
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17 Sep 2025
AI model from Lund University indicates four out of ten breast cancer patients could avoid axillary surgery
A project at Lund University in Sweden has trained an AI model to identify breast cancer patients who could be spared from axillary surgery. The model analyses previously unutilise...
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17 Sep 2025
Largest ever TauPET study of Alzheimer’s deepens understanding of the disease
In a study led by Lund University and the Amsterdam University Medical Center, researchers used PET to analyse aggregates of tau pathology in more than 12,000 people from all over ...
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17 Sep 2025
The road to a self-driving future
What happens when we get out of the driver's seat and our vehicles become autonomous? Mathematician Viktor Larsson is developing methods to enable cars and drones to see their surr...