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25 Nov 2020 | News

Mimicking the navigation of the insect brain

How do bees always find their way home, not to mention in a straight line? What is it about the insect brain that allows them to navigate so easily? Could we copy that function? A step in this direction has now been taken by a group of scientists in a project combining the fields of biology, physics...

Johan Agorelius, Alexander Dontsios Holmkvist and Jens Schouenborg

25 Nov 2020 | News

Nanoparticles deliver drugs to the brain

A new method that slowly releases drugs locally in the brain has been developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden. The drug is encapsulated in nanoparticles and delivered to the brain tissue via flexible electrodes. The method has been tested on mice and published in the Journal of Nanobio...

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19 Nov 2020 | News

One percent of the world’s population accounts for more than half of flying emissions

One percent of the world’s population accounts for more than half of the carbon dioxide emissions from passenger air travel. Thus, there is good reason to view air travel in a new light. It is actually an elitist activity, rather than what the aviation industry would like us to believe – that everyo...

Martin Magnusson and Amra Jujic (Photo: Tove Gilvad)

19 Nov 2020 | News

Incretin hormone levels linked to arteriosclerosis

Diabetes is currently treated using incretin hormones to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and other medical issues that the illness can trigger. Now researchers from Lund University in Sweden have noted new links between these hormones and arteriosclerosis, and believe their discovery could...

Artistic representation of how a dying star, a red giant, gradually loses its gas mass to the other star in a binary star system. The chain of events in the image is based on the research of the current study. Illustration: Joris Vos.

17 Nov 2020 | News

Iron in binary stars reflects Galaxy’s chemical evolution

The dance that binary stars do around each other offers new clues to the chemical evolution of our Galaxy, the Milky Way – so says a current research study. For the first time, researchers have identified the link between the orbiting times of certain binary stars and the amount of iron in in their ...