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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a unique project, researchers from Lund University in Sweden, together with universities in South Africa, the Netherlands and the USA, will for the first time systematise large amounts of historical data from the Dutch East India Company’s colonisation of South Africa. Their aim: to find out when and how colonial p

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/economic-historians-seeking-roots-south-africas-inequality - 2026-06-23

The IIIEE has launched a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) titled “Dispelling Myths about Sustainable Consumption" as part of the Mistra Sustainable Consumption programme. The course is free, open to everyone, and designed to help learners question familiar but misleading ideas about what makes consumption sustainable. Rethinking what we take for grantedFor decades, public policies, business s

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-can-we-make-consumption-sustainable-and-what-if-many-ideas-we-rely-are-actually-myths - 2026-06-23

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/universal-method-could-transform-future-bone-transplantation - 2026-06-23

Facts and research must carry more weight when planning the greening of cities in the future. A new research article calls for a paradigm shift – from 'arbitrary decisions' to more evidence-based urban planning, where urban nature is managed as a resource for both people and biodiversity. Biodiversity is under pressure and many species are at risk of disappearing due to human activity. Research sh

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/researchers-call-evidence-based-urban-greening - 2026-06-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Using lipidomics, a technique that measures the composition of blood lipids at a molecular level, and machine learning, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified a blood lipid profile that improves the possibility to assess, several years in advance, the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The blood lip

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/blood-lipid-profile-predicts-risk-type-2-diabetes-better-obesity - 2026-06-23

Using lipidomics, a technique that measures the composition of blood lipids at a molecular level, and machine learning, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified a blood lipid profile that improves the possibility to assess, several years in advance, the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The blood lipid profile can also be linked to a certain diet and degree of physical activity.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/blood-lipid-profile-predicts-risk-type-2-diabetes-better-obesity - 2026-06-23

The AI ​​chat can answer questions, translate, write code, or write an exciting short story. The possibilities fascinate and perhaps worry some, but what is ChatGPT really about? "The way I see it, the chat bot mainly fulfills two functions; as a coach and as a productivity tool," says Björn Svensson, Director of studies and lecturer in informatics at LUSEM. Björn Svensson is part of a working gro

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/there-and-after-chatgpt - 2026-06-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A research group from Lund Stem Cell Center aims to understand a specific type of neuron that could underlie several brain disorders including schizophrenia, epilepsy and autism, and are developing exciting new strategies to treat them. For the brain to function properly, signaling – be it excitatory or inhibitory – m

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/restoring-neural-networks-and-understanding-brain-disorders-0 - 2026-06-23

The Research and Innovation Bill of December 2024 promised substantial new funding through a number of targeted calls for applications. At the same time, it was also decided that new core funding for research would be allocated to universities based on indicators, external grants received and the number of highly cited publications per institution. We are now beginning to see some of the results a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/successful-outcomes-increased-research-funding-and-new-colleagues - 2026-06-24

When the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the world in 2020, the mRNA vaccines came to the rescue of many people – but in the background there was another, lesser known, hero: the lipid nanoparticle. Without these tiny “fat droplets”, the vaccines could never have been delivered into the body’s cells. And the fact is that these small particles will probably have more assignments in the future. It co

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/tiny-fatty-and-vital-meet-medicine-courier-future - 2026-06-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. From despair to transformation: evidence-backed ways to think and act on the nature crisis. Looking at the bigger pictureThe UN Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has just published a global assessment of the state of nature, ecosystems and nature's contributions to people. Compi

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-research-biodiversity-comment-ipbes-global-assessment-report - 2026-06-23

Dark excitons are material excitations not visible under light illumination. Some acquire intrinsic momentum and become inherently mobile, which can be exploited in charge transport applications. Studying the properties of such excitons via spectroscopy is extremely challenging due to their dark nature. “Although the intrinsic mobility of dark excitons may be suitable for charge transport in futur

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/dark-excitons-may-be-suitable-charge-transport-future-solar-cell-technologies - 2026-06-23

Elite ice hockey players with a history of concussion report heightened mental health symptoms, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. In addition, one in five female hockey players suffered symptoms of burnout, and both sexes reported an alcohol consumption at a risk-level. The researchers based their study on Sweden’s two highest hockey divisions for men – the SHL and Hockeyall

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/professional-ice-hockey-depressive-symptoms-and-burnout-linked-more-concussions - 2026-06-23

LUND, SWEDEN On May 5–6, 2026, the Nordic Central Asian Studies Research Environment (NORCA) convened its first major workshop at Lund University, titled “Mapping the Nordic Research on Central Asia and Establishing Foundations.” The event gathered over 60 scholars, diplomats, and policymakers from across the Nordic region and Central Asia to consolidate research efforts and identify strategic gap

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/norca-research-environment-hosts-inaugural-workshop-mapping-nordic-research-central-asia - 2026-06-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “Of course there’s a bit of apprehension, just like when two people move in together. This is five families who have moved into the same building. We don’t know each other and our daily routines yet. We’ll have to find out as we go along”, said Therese Whass, a student at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/five-departments-installed-lux - 2026-06-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Every year Birger Schmitz, Fredrik Terfelt and Ellinor Martin dissolve five to ten tonnes of limestone with highly dangerous chemicals. The aim is to find microscopic grains from fossilised meteorites that are many millions of years old, which can provide important clues to the development of life on Earth.  LUM was g

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chemically-empowered-hunt-space-grains - 2026-06-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University have contributed to creating a uniquely detailed global climate model that will increase our understanding of climate change. It is the first time that vegetation and land use, at this level of detail, are included in climate modeling within EC-Earth, a global climate and earth system mo

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/unique-climate-model-includes-vegetation-developed - 2026-06-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Negative emission technologies, or large scale carbon dioxide removal, are increasingly seen as key to slow or halt climate change. Researchers now warn that they are fraught with uncertainties, and raise questions about land use, justice and power. Wim Carton, researcher at Lund University Centre for Sustainability S

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/uncertain-future-negative-emission-technologies - 2026-06-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The theme for the first online Transformations Conference (17 – 18th June 2021), co-organised by LUCSUS, is about enabling positive tipping points for sustainability transformations. In this interview, conveners J. David Tàbara (GCF) and Diego Galafassi (LUCSUS), speak on key aims and hopes for the upcoming conference

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/transformations-conference-2021-enabling-positive-tipping-points-sustainability - 2026-06-23

A new PhD thesis by Bernard Ekumah examines why agricultural development in Ghana continues to generate uneven and contradictory outcomes, especially for smallholder farmers. It argues that these outcomes are not primarily the result of isolated failures of policy design or implementation. Rather, they arise from structural contradictions embedded in the internal logic of Ghana’s neo-liberal agrar

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/small-holder-farmers-reap-few-and-uneven-gains-ghanas-agricultural-development-policies - 2026-06-23