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In just two weeks, Zhengyao Lu, Researcher in Physical Geography at Lund University and a member of MERGE and BECC, gained 60.000 reads of his article “Gigantic solar farms of the future might impact how much solar power can be generated on the other side of the world”. How could this be? We asked Zhengyao Lu himself to share his experience. In just two weeks, Zhengyao Lu, Researcher in Physical G

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/60000-views-conversation-two-weeks-whats-secret - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. If silence is golden, speech is silver – and singing the worst. Singing doesn’t need to be silenced, however, but at the moment the wisest thing is to sing with social distancing in place. The advice comes from aerosol researchers Jakob Löndahl and Malin Alsved at Lund University. They have studied the amount of parti

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/could-singing-spread-covid-19 - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new experimental and clinical study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the sleep hormone melatonin impairs insulin secretion in people with a common gene variant.

“This could explain why the risk of type 2 diabetes is greater among, for instance, overnight workers or people with sleeping disorders”, says Pro

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-findings-explain-connection-between-melatonin-and-type-2-diabetes - 2026-05-07

Climate change education in schools and universities tends to focus on environmental facts, whilst little room is given to inner dimensions of change and to collective action. The CLARITY project co-led by IIIEE launches a coached self-paced course to address these challenges by enhancing educators’ skills. Teachers & educators! Our new training on teaching climate change with both care and impact

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/clarity-project-launches-new-training-teaching-climate-change - 2026-05-07

For those of you that maybe did not know, WCMM Lund has a Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) composed of four internationally recognized experts. Two of them know the WCMM Centre quite well by now and the other two are just newly recruited. The role of the WCMM SAB is to provide strategic guidance and direction the WCMM Centre regarding scientific aspects, strategic directions and provides recommenda

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/get-know-scientific-advisory-board - 2026-05-07

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Benjamin Clareus is one of five new PhD students at the Department of psychology. Find out what he´s up to for the next four years. "I’m writing my thesis about the process of cessation of intentional, non-suicidal self-harm between adolescence to young adulthood. Specifically, I will study which factors predict ces

https://www.psy.lu.se/artikel/meet-our-phds-benjamin-clareus - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Jishnu J.R, Ph.D Scholar from the Department of Law at University of Kerala in India, recently travelled back to Kerala after a month in Lund. Jishnu is pursuing his Ph.D on "Copyright and trademark aspects of social media" at University of Kerala and was here as a guest-reseacher at the Department of Law and SASNET.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/jishnu-jr-guest-researcher-lund-university - 2026-05-07

In a study from Australia, researchers have looked at whether the dietary supplement krill oil has any effect on pain in people with clinically diagnosed knee osteoarthritis with severe pain and effusion-synovitis. Effusion-synovitis means that there is too much fluid in the synovial joint which can cause swelling, pain, and limited mobility in the affected joint, in this case, the knee joint.Ther

https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/no-effect-krill-oil-people-knee-osteoarthritis - 2026-05-07

A new study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden, reveals that melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, can in some cases be driven by mitochondrial processes, which can be effectively targeted using existing drugs. In preclinical laboratory experiments with melanoma cell cultures, researchers successfully eliminated cancer cells by using antibiotics and inhibitors of mitochondrial

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/aggressive-skin-cancer-driven-mitochondrial-processes-existing-drugs-offer-promising-treatment-path - 2026-05-07

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/jenny-hansson-awarded-11-million-sek-swedish-society-medical-research - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The expression “Sweden’s green gold” has a new meaning. Forests are now not only to provide timber and paper – but also save the climate. Chemical engineering researcher Christian Hulteberg has managed to transform a residual product from pulp manufacturing into a liquid that is chemically identical to petrol. The pla

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/he-pumps-petrol-trees - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Message from the LUDC Executive Board. Dear Friends and colleagues,We are all now well aware that the COVID-19 pandemic is spreading fast in Sweden and around the world. There is a lot of information to digest. Some of this is factual and helpful, but there is also a great deal of poorly informed speculation, that ris

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/updates-covid-19 - 2026-05-07

Now that most people are back from their holidays, activities resume where they left off before the summer. Over the autumn, the Workplace of the Future project will focus on remote working among technical and administrative staff. The annual follow-up on secondary employment has come in and shows that we have become better at reporting, but there is still room for improvement. The Workplace of th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-semester-continued-development-and-improvements - 2026-05-08

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Maria Messing receives a grant from Future Research Leaders, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. Nano Design meets Organic Chemistry for Greener Catalysts is the name of the research program led by Maria Messing, funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. This is the summary of the project:   One

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolundian-gets-grant-greener-catalysts - 2026-05-07

REAL (Centre for Retail and Logistics) is a research center at Lund University and a long-term initiative aimed at establishing a strong, interdisciplinary, and dynamic environment. Its goal is to generate relevant knowledge and expertise of strategic importance for the future of sustainable retail and logistics. “Through collaboration in education, research, and innovation, we aim to redefine the

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/one-year-real - 2026-05-07

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-why-small-states-join-big-wars - 2026-05-07

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/charlotte-ling-receives-major-grant-clinical-diabetes-research - 2026-05-07

A team of international researchers led by Professor Johan Jakobsson at Lund University has secured a 52 million SEK grant from the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative, in partnership with the Michael J Fox Foundation to investigate how mobile genetic elements —commonly referred to as "jumping genes"—contribute to neuroinflammation and the progression of Parkinson’s disease. Jump

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/52-million-sek-goes-uncovering-genetic-drivers-parkinsons-disease - 2026-05-07

Lina Ejlertsson, a doctoral student in Public Health at Lund University, believes that there is a classic approach to working with and measuring health in workplaces through sick leave rates, productivity and efficiency. – Most often, rehabilitative measures or preventative work are only undertaken after employees become ill. So what happens if you instead integrate various recovery activities int

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/integrated-recovery-during-work-day-does-it-make-difference - 2026-05-07

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/world-leading-curiosity-driven-environment-new-nano-lab-one-cornerstones - 2026-05-07