Swati Aggarwal and Ashley Middleton are from two completely different worlds but have found a creative and exciting way to create art from research. Photo: Kennet Ruona. A handful of selected artists have paired up with researchers from the European Spallation Source (ESS) and the results are unexpected meetings, different thoughts and new challenges. Both for the artists and the researchers. The

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/art-research-new-ways-seeing - 2025-09-09

This is where Helsingborg's new district, Oceanhamnen, is emerging. Jessica Engvall and Elisabeth Högdahl think about how memories from what was previously a port area can be brought to life in urban planning. Photo: Sven - Eric Svensson Allow stories to speak and weave in memories. A multidimensional vision could make urban development less stereotypical, according to ethnologist Elisabeth Högdah

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/meaningful-memories-inspire-urban-planning - 2025-09-09

Photo: NASA/SDO/AIA/LMSAL Through analyzes of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has found evidence of an extreme solar storm that occurred about 9,200 years ago. What puzzles the researchers is that the storm took place during one of the sun's more quiet phases – during which it is generally believed our planet is less exposed to such events.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ancient-ice-reveals-mysterious-solar-storm - 2025-09-09

Guests and guides during the performance 'Island' in August 2020. Photo: Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir. What is worth sustaining? Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir's research is all about a theatre audience facing themselves with that profound question. "In my work I offer a frame or a situation for my guests to meet their own stories and their values through an encounter with a host in their own surroundings

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/no-man-island - 2025-09-09

Illustration: Bibiana Prinoth Using high-resolution spectroscopy, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in mapping the atmosphere of an exoplanet located 322 light years from Earth. The knowledge gained about the hot gas surrounding the Jupiter-like planet is important for the understanding of Earth-like planets. WASP-189b is a planet outside our own solar system, with a dayside

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/exotic-cocktail-atmosphere-extreme-exoplanet - 2025-09-09

The LUSEM team finished sixth at the John Molson case competition. From the left: Jakob Hultström Palerius, Sebastian van Dijkman, Mats Urde (Coach), Dominykas Vidžiūnas, Lum Rexha. (At the training session in Mölle.) As only the second team ever, the LU team made it to the semifinals and finished sixth in this year's John Molson MBA International Case Competition – the largest case competition of

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-reaches-semifinals-prestigious-mba-competition - 2025-09-09

New knowledge about how the body's cells can be reprogrammed to attack their attackers gives hope to more and more patient groups. Techniques with minor side effects and new drugs are already in use. Photo: iStockphoto T cells, antibodies, immune defences – concepts we have learnt more about after a couple of years of a global Covid-19 pandemic. Understanding of how the immune system works against

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/bodys-fantastic-defence-system-gets-help-fight-against-cancer - 2025-09-09

Anna Berg and Maj Persson, biologists and freelance creators, collecting material for the ARNA project 'The landscape as a designed living environment'. Photographer: Nille Leander. The Vombsjö basin in Skåne could become the world's first biosphere reserve integrating the cultural dimension. If the application to UNESCO is successful, the area could become an international forerunner as the first

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/vombsjo-basin-way-becoming-unique-new-biosphere-reserve - 2025-09-09

Mats Moberg, Senior Vice President Research & Development at Volvo Cars and Annika Olsson, Dean at the Faculty of Engineering. (Photo: Kennet Ruona) The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University and Volvo Cars have signed an agreement to strengthen existing research collaborations and identify new areas for mutual benefit and development – and in this way contribute to solutions for sustainability

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-between-lund-university-and-volvo-cars - 2025-09-09

Electron microscope image shows a blod stem cell on top of a membrane of nanotubes (Image: M. Hjort and L. Schmiderer) An interdisciplinary research team has successfully used innovation to solve a persistent major problem in stem cell research. More specifically, to gently introduce therapeutic biomolecules into target cells to increase their growth. The project has now been awarded the ‟Proof of

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-nanostraws-can-increase-number-blood-stem-cells - 2025-09-09

Anne L'Huillier The Wolf Prize in Physics has been awarded to Anne L'Huillier at Lund University, Paul Corkum at the University of Ottawa, and Ferenc Krausz at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. They were selected for pioneering contributions to ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics. The recipients share the prize for "pioneering and no

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/professor-anne-lhuillier-awarded-wolf-prize-physics - 2025-09-09

iStock/selvanegra In a recent study from Lund University in Sweden, researchers discovered that metabolic changes affect how blood cells are formed during embryonic development. They found a previously unknown metabolic switch with a key role in how different types of blood cells develop. This means blood cell formation can be directed towards producing natural killer cells in the laboratory to ul

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/metabolism-found-regulate-production-killer-cells - 2025-09-09

The southern part of Sweden has established itself as a centre of gaming. With its roots in sub-cultures, the gaming industry is now a strong market in which local actors and creatives collaborate. Photo: iStockphoto. Do you work in graphic design, are you passionate about games development, or do you design jewellery in your own business? The market for entrepreneurs with cultural and creative bu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cultural-and-creative-business-concepts-need-specific-and-strategic-support - 2025-09-09

Leo Flynn The Faculty of Law at Lund University has appointed Deputy Director and Principal Legal Advisor at the European Commission Leo Flynn as the faculty's Honorary Doctor for 2022. Leo Flynn will be promoted at the doctoral degree conferment ceremony 3 June. Leo Flynn is Irish and educated at Cambridge University and University College Cork. He is Deputy Director and Principal Legal Adviser a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/leo-flynn-appointed-honorary-doctor-2022-faculty-law - 2025-09-09

As it is difficult to predict which pollinators may survive in a future climate or which pollinators will be needed to pollinate future crops, it is important to preserve a diversity of pollinators. Photo: iStockphoto Honeybees are common pollinators, but other insects such as hoverflies, beetles and butterflies, and wild bees, including bumble bees, are also needed for pollination and are importa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/habitat-important-wild-pollinators-under-threat - 2025-09-09

Illustration of of electrons transferred between aromatic and non-aromatic rings in a hydrocarbon molecule (Illustration: DANIEL STRAND/JONAS AHLSTEDT) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in developing a simple hydrocarbon molecule with a logic gate function, similar to that in transistors, in a single molecule. The discovery could make electric components on a molecular scale

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-create-molecule-can-pave-way-mini-transistors - 2025-09-09

CROCUS wants to gather knowledge about cultural and creative industries so that they can jointly apply for projects and run projects. The watercolour is painted by Cecilia Fredriksson, project manager for the network. Cultural and creative industries are steadily growing and driving regional development in Sweden. The CROCUS network at Campus Helsingborg wants to strengthen knowledge exchange for

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/crocus-flourishing-network-culture-and-creativity - 2025-09-09

Tönu Pullerits and Kaibo Zheng by the laser spectroscopy setup used in the study. (PHOTO: PAVEL CHABERA) A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has shown how solar power can convert carbon dioxide into fuel, by using advanced materials and ultra-fast laser spectroscopy. The breakthrough could be an important piece of the puzzle in reducing the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/breakthrough-converting-co2-fuel-using-solar-energy - 2025-09-09

Less than ten per cent of energy intake from food should come from added sugar, according to the current Nordic Nutrition Recommendations. For adults, this corresponds to approximately 50–75 grams of added sugar per day and one can of soft drink contains approximately 30 grams of sugar. “Drinking soft drinks is not necessarily dangerous for a particular individual, however, at the group level, acr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/better-methods-are-needed-understand-how-sugar-affects-our-bodies - 2025-09-09

The Crab Nebula ( NASA/ESA/J Hester Arizona State University) A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has provided an important clue to the origin of the element Ytterbium in the Milky Way, by showing that the element largely originates from supernova explosions. The groundbreaking research also provides new opportunities for studying the evolution of our galaxy. The study is published in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/astronomers-map-mysterious-element-space - 2025-09-09