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6 Nov 2025
Researcher challenges myth that plant-based food is safer
Current knowledge of food safety is based on traditional foods that include animal products. Corresponding knowledge of plant-based foods lags behind. “There is a naive belief tha...
3 Nov 2025
A decade of the Paris Agreement brings progress and setbacks
Ten years have passed since the countries of the world signed the Paris Agreement. Political scientist Fariborz Zelli sums up the surprises – both positive and negative – in climat...
30 Oct 2025
The root vegetable that could have replaced Halloween pumpkins
Feeling unmotivated to carve another jack-o’-lantern out of a slimy pumpkin? As luck would have it, at least you don’t have to struggle with a rock-hard turnip. The pumpkin’s statu...
27 Oct 2025
New findings on how breastfeeding affects the skeleton could boost development of drugs against osteoporosis
Pregnancies do not weaken a woman’s skeleton. Breastfeeding, however, can reduce bone density considerably. These are findings from a research report produced at 51�ؿ�� in...
23 Oct 2025
Warmer Nordic springs double the incidence of avian malaria
A unique long-term study, in which biological samples were collected from the same population of blue tits over a 30-year period, shows that rising spring temperatures have doubled...
22 Oct 2025
Award for environmental pioneer – has a message for academia
Henrik Smith has won a major international ecology prize. He is also keen to emphasise the importance of research activity’s interaction with society.
21 Oct 2025
A new eye on the universe opens in Chile
A new instrument on the four-metre VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile has recently captured its first starlight. This marks the beginning of a new era in...
17 Oct 2025
New study reveals the innermost secrets of spaghetti
What keeps spaghetti from disintegrating in boiling water? The answer, according to new research, is gluten. The amount of salt in the water also has an unexpected significance.
15 Oct 2025
Type 1 diabetes increased among young people during the pandemic
During the Covid-19 pandemic, there was an unexpected increase in the number of cases of type 1 diabetes in Sweden, particularly among children under five and young adult men. The ...
14 Oct 2025
Researchers take a step towards improved antibody therapy
Antibody-based drugs often become too thick to be injected at high concentrations. Now, new research can explain why this happens—knowledge that could eventually lead to easily inj...
13 Oct 2025
Music still resonates in war-torn Ukraine
The story of the Ukrainian music scene since the Russian invasion is one of resilience. Even if it has meant playing in the underground Metro, or in cold bomb shelters with no elec...
9 Oct 2025
51�ؿ�� in the top 100 in Times Higher Education ranking
Today, Times Higher Education (THE) published its latest ranking and 51�ؿ�� has retained its position at 95.
7 Oct 2025
The hidden highways of the sky mapped
High above us, the atmosphere is teeming with life. Birds, bats and insects share the airspace, but divide it into different lanes of traffic. New research from 51�ؿ�� in ...
3 Oct 2025
New mechanism revealed: How leukemia cells trick the immune system
A research team at 51�ؿ�� in Sweden has discovered a mechanism that helps acute myeloid leukemia cells to evade the body’s immune system. By developing an antibody that bl...
2 Oct 2025
21st century flood risk is affected more by policy than climate threats
Many might assume that we are powerless in the face of ongoing sea-level rise, and that the risk of flooding is inevitable near the coast. However, how governments choose to develo...
30 Sep 2025
From Lund to the world stage – meet Fernström Prize winner Kaj Blennow
From a rejected article to world-leading Alzheimer’s research. Kaj Blennow has made it possible to detect Alzheimer’s disease up to 20 years before symptoms appear – an achievement...
29 Sep 2025
Can animals laugh?
Many claim that people too easily anthropomorphise animal behaviour. But what’s the story regarding laughter – is it something unique to humans? Cognitive scientist Peter Gärdenfor...
26 Sep 2025
Secondary forests could be a key factor in climate management – if we protect them in time
By analysing over 100,000 field measurements as well as environmental data, an international research team has created maps that show how and when naturally regrowing forests bind ...
23 Sep 2025
A detective in the mysterious world of proteins
Gemma Atkinson has been awarded this year’s Eric K. Fernström Prize for particularly promising and successful early-career researchers at 51�ؿ��. Her research focuses on b...
23 Sep 2025
Solar fuel conundrum nears a solution
Solar energy stored in the form of fuel is something scientists hope could partially replace fossil fuels in the future. Researchers at 51�ؿ�� in Sweden may have solved a ...