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Red-backed shrikes fly thousands of kilometres to reach Africa – and they do so with astonishing precision. Aided by new technology, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have been able to track the birds’ journeys in detail. It turns out that they may have a more complex genetic migration programme than researchers have previously been able to show. “We can now follow a bird’s location through

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/new-technology-reveals-migratory-birds-stunning-precision-flight - 2026-04-29

A myriad of colours that survived millions of years of evolution have disappeared in a short period of time. The culprit? A bright green, aggressive, and sexually dominant wall lizard that has wiped out several colour variants within its speci Many animal species display clearly defined colour variants, or colour morphs. These are not just superficial differences, but are often linked to different

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/hulk-lizard-knocks-out-ancient-colour-palette - 2026-04-29

A research team has created artificial animals that over time develop functioning vision from scratch – from simple light sensitivity to the ability to discern objects. This happened despite the fact that the digital creatures weren’t given any instructions. The results show how AI can be used to understand the inner secrets of evolution. Imagine that you are sitting in front of a computer. In the

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/researchers-create-ai-animals-simulate-evolution-vision - 2026-04-29

Some fungi are wasteful, while others recycle – and this can determine how much carbon is stored in a forest. Researchers at Lund University have now revealed how fungi manage their mycelium, the network that builds the structure of fungus. The results could provide new insights into the carbon cycle and climate. Researchers have investigated how fungi recycle their mycelium when they grow. Using

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/recycling-strategies-fungi-can-affect-how-forests-store-carbon - 2026-04-29

Beneath our feet, there is a bustling world of life that is crucial to both food and climate. Yet we often take this hidden ecosystem for granted. With new technology, research and culture, soil ecologist Edith Hammer and her colleagues, together with artist duo (p)Art of the Biomass, are opening a whole new window to the underground and a world few of us have seen. Edith Hammer is a soil ecologis

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/window-underground-where-soil-science-meets-culture - 2026-04-29

When fish from different habitats meet, it’s not always love at first swim. New research from Lund University in Sweden in collaboration with North Carolina State University shows that aggressive females can actively repel males from the “wrong” environment. This behaviour may ultimately contribute to the emergence of new species. Understanding how species evolve is one of the most fundamental que

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/aggressive-female-fish-put-stop-mating-may-lead-new-species - 2026-04-29

Mosses and liverworts are common in forests, wetlands and on rocky surfaces – yet their chemical composition remains relatively little explored. A European research project is now investigating whether these small plants could become a source of new bioactive compounds for applications such as cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. The BRYOMOLECULES project has now reached its halfway point. At Lund Unive

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/small-plants-big-potential - 2026-04-29

Every year a small songbird, no heavier than a letter, crosses the Sahara Desert, the Mediterranean and the Arabian Desert on its migration. New research from Lund University in Sweden now reveals how the tiny bird manages this arduous journey: by flying night after night - and doing nothing during the day. The thrush nightingale is a songbird is a long-distance traveller that arrives in Sweden in

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/songbirds-extreme-desert-migration-mapped - 2026-04-29

Bibiana Prinoth has been awarded the Oscar II Scholarship 2026 for the best thesis at the Faculty of Science. The scholarship recognises the most prominent thesis presented during the past two years within each field at Lund University. In her work, Bibiana Prinoth studies distant and extreme planetary atmospheres using advanced spectroscopy, opening up new possibilities for understanding how plan

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/thesis-exploring-extreme-exoplanet-atmospheres-awarded-oscar-ii-scholarship - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Christelle Prinz, professor of solid state physics and affiliated to NanoLund, receives 150,000 euros to further develop research results that are considered to have great innovation potential by the European Research Council. For several years, physicist Christelle Prinz has developed nanotechnology to diagnose and s

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-grant-one-step-covid-detection - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. By studying cold atoms, researchers have in a unique way been able to observe a precursor to a quantum phase transition, and thereby study physical processes that can be compared to the Higgs mechanism. The discovery can, among other things, provide more knowledge about quantum mechanical processes that are similar to

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/observing-emergence-quantum-phase-transition-shell-shell - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What is all the dark matter in the universe made of? Could it be connected to new particles that can be produced at the Large Hadron Collider? Caterina Doglioni, assistant senior lecturer in particle physics, will search for new particles beyond the known fundamental components of matter with the ATLAS experiment at t

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/prestigious-erc-consilidator-grant-awarded-caterina-doglioni - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Building engines – out of proteins. That’s the aim for a research project, coordinated by Heiner Linke at NanoLund, Lund University in Sweden. The project is now being funded by the European Research Council (ERC) – it received a EUR 10 million ERC Synergy Grant. The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to resear

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-grant-awarded-research-project-protein-motors - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Optical Society, OSA, awards NanoLundian Atomic Physics professor Anne l’Huillier the Max Born Award for pioneering work in ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics. Anne L’Huillier, professor of Atomic Physics and affiliated member of NanoLund, has been awarded the Optical Society Max Born Award 2021 “for p

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/anne-lhuillier-wins-max-born-award - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A research project on how to observe and control the movement of electrons will soon commence at LTH thanks to a multi-million donation from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Per Eng-Johnsson, professor at the Division of Atomic Physics, will receive just over SEK 25 million for doing something that no one has

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/unique-research-project-electrons-awarded-grant - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NanoLund affiliated researcher recieves funding to develop a new microscope. Pablo Villanueva Perez, associate senior lecturer in Synchrotron Radiation Physics, will develop a completely new X-ray microscope to improve the study and filming of different materials in 3D. Today this is done using microtomography (μCT) b

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-starting-grant-rewarded-pablo-villanueva-perez - 2026-04-29

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 at Lund University in Sweden. They have studied the amount of particles we actually emit

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/could-singing-spread-covid-19 - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers from the two Strategic Research Areas NanoLund and SPI (Sustainable Production Initiative, Chalmers and Lund University) have joined forces in a new collaboration together with major Swedish companies from the metals and manufacturing industries. The project aims to facilitate and improve the industry’s us

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/x-rays-and-neutrons-entering-metals-and-manufacturing-industries - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We are facing new challenges, and consequently we need the development of electronics to continue. But the question is: how do we do that? Mattias Borg, co-coordinator of Exploratory Nanotechnology, explains how. The basis of the electronics we use today, such as home computers and mobile phones, was invented more tha

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/how-make-smarter-and-more-efficient-electronics - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NanoLund researchers Martin Hjort, Yang Chen, and Martin Borgström have been awarded the Lund University and Sparbanken Skåne’s prize for future innovations. Their projects are named “Overcoming the shortage of blood stem cell donations with the help of nanotechnology” and “Transparent solar cells: solar cell windows”

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/double-innovation-prize-nanolund - 2026-04-29