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Published 15 December 2020 David Winge. Photo: Evelina Lindén. 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…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/mimicking-navigation-insect-brain- 2020-12-15

Published 13 January 2021 Clifford Woodward and Melissa Franklin. A particle physicist involved in popular education and who made a number of global discoveries in her research portfolio and a professor of theoretical physical chemistry…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/leading-particle-physicist-and-pioneering-chemist-named-new-honorary-doctors-science- 2021-01-18

Published 20 January 2021 Silver-washed fritillary butterfly. Photo: Per Henningson. The fluttery flight of butterflies has so far been somewhat of a mystery to researchers, given their unusually large and broad wings relative to their…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/butterfly-wing-clap-explains-mystery-flight- 2021-01-20

Published 26 January 2021 Photo: Unsplash. Theories were introduced as far back as the 1960s about the possible existence of superheavy elements. Their most long-lived nuclei could give rise to a so-called “island of stability” far beyond…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/nuclear-physicists-voyage-towards-mythical-island- 2021-01-26

To ensure that you have the best possible conditions to complete your education, the faculty offers a so-called SI programme. SI stands for Supplemental Instruction and is offered on selected courses. At the SI sessions, which are held…

https://www.science.lu.se/education/current-students/si-programme- 2023-11-29

Published 8 February 2021 Researchers have discovered individual traits in fungi in their hunt for food. Maze-like structure made of silicone. Photo: Kristin Aleklett Kadish. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered the…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/soldiers-snakes-and-marathon-runners-hidden-world-fungi- 2021-02-08

Published 8 February 2021 Photo: Charlie Cornwallis. The world's largest bird, the ostrich, has problems reproducing when the temperature deviates by 5 degrees or more from the ideal temperature of 20 °C. The research, from Lund University…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/ostriches-challenged-temperature-fluctuations- 2021-02-08

Published 18 February 2021 A spruce bark beetle. Photo: Erling Jirle. For the first time, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has mapped out exactly what happens when spruce bark beetles use their sense of smell to find trees…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/breakthrough-fight-against-spruce-bark-beetles- 2021-02-18

Published 4 March 2021 Illustration: Don Dixon (copyright/used with permission). A Swedish-Danish research team is now launching a new theory of the process that led to the formation of Earth. Through advanced analyses of meteorites,…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-study-shows-earth-was-formed-millimetre-sized-pebbles-over-short-period- 2021-03-04

Published 4 March 2021 Image: Pixabay. Sixty-six million years ago, a gigantic celestial body crashed to Earth on the Yucatán peninsula, forming a crater 200 kilometres across. The impact plunged Earth into darkness and killed off the…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/drill-cores-mexican-crater-provide-new-knowledge-about-dinosaurs-extinction- 2021-03-04

Published 15 March 2021 Roman Pasechnik For 50 years, the world of research has been searching eagerly for the so-called Odderon particle – entirely fruitlessly. However, a Swedish-Hungarian research team has managed to discover the…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/particle-physics-detective-work-behind-solution-50-year-old-riddle- 2021-03-26

Published 15 March 2021 Photo: Wikimedia. Long life is common among bird parents that get help with childcare. This finding comes from researchers at the universities of Lund and Oxford who reviewed data from more than 9,000 studies. Being…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/bird-parents-receive-help-live-longer- 2021-03-15

Published 23 March 2021 Illustration: Pixabay. Volcano or meteorite? Over the past 100 years, two different theories have been put forward to explain the formation of Lake Mien. However, researchers from Lund University can now…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-study-shows-lake-mien-was-formed-meteoric-impact- 2021-03-23

Published 16 April 2021 Coal tit. Photo: Andreas Nord. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered that bird blood produces more heat in winter, when it is colder, than in autumn. The secret lies in the energy factories of…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/birds-blood-functions-heating-system-winter- 2021-04-16

Published 28 April 2021 Donatas Zigmantas. A research team at Lund University in Sweden has succeeded in uncovering the fundamental properties of plexcitons, which were previously shrouded in mystery. Now the researchers can show how the…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/lund-researchers-solve-nano-mystery-long-run-could-help-world-achieve-sustainable-development-goals- 2021-04-28

Published 5 May 2021 Wolfgang Knorr, a researcher at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, is one of three authors of a high-profile climate article recently published in The Conversation. The article, about our…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/researcher-was-given-helping-hand-greta-thunberg- 2021-05-10

Published 10 May 2021 Colonisation of remote islands has contributed to irreversible changes in their ecosystems. This finding emerges from an international study to which researchers from Lund University contributed. The analysis of 5000…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/remote-islands-extremely-sensitive-human-impact- 2021-05-10

Published 1 June 2021 In the study, the researchers analysed foraminifera brought up by drilling into the ocean floor. Photo: Helena L Filipsson. They are called foraminifera and have lived in the world’s oceans for 545 million years. A…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/microscopic-foraminifera-likely-winners-tomorrows-increasingly-deoxygenated-oceans- 2021-06-01

Published 4 June 2021 Torbjörn Sjöstrand. Photo: Private. Torbjörn Sjöstrand, post-retirement professor at the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, has been awarded the EPS High Energy and Particle Physics Prize. This desirable…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/prestigious-prize-awarded-particle-physicist- 2023-03-27

Published 11 June 2021 Fredrik Terfelt and Birger Schmitz dissolved almost ten tonnes of sedimentary rocks from ancient seabeds. Photo: Johan Joelsson. For the first time, a unique study conducted at Lund University in Sweden has tracked…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/earths-meteorite-impacts-over-past-500-million-years-tracked- 2021-06-11