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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 that has not only transformed research but also laid the…

/article/lund-world-stage-meet-fernstrom-prize-winner-kaj-blennow- 2025-09-30

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 long-standing problem that has hindered the development of…

/article/solar-fuel-conundrum-nears-solution- 2025-09-29

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 Gärdenfors explains why we often overlook the laughter of a parrot…

/article/can-animals-laugh- 2025-09-29

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 most carbon. To fulfil climate goals and avoid the most…

/article/secondary-forests-could-be-key-factor-climate-management-if-we-protect-them-time- 2025-09-26

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 bacterial proteins in order to understand the protective…

/article/detective-mysterious-world-proteins- 2025-09-23

Researchers at 51�ؿ����� in Sweden have developed a digital cognitive test for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease that is intended for use in primary care. “This digital test, which patients perform on their own with minimal involvement…

/article/new-digital-cognitive-test-diagnosing-alzheimers-disease- 2025-09-23

Anorexia nervosa is a serious psychiatric disorder for which there are limited treatment options, and it has one of the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric diagnosis. A pilot study is now underway at 51�ؿ����� in Sweden, where…

/article/psychedelics-treatment-anorexia-new-pilot-study- 2025-09-22

The sound of tawny owls makes young European robins eat less during their southward migration. A new study from 51�ؿ����� in Sweden shows how the threat from nocturnal predators affects the birds’ behaviour – and by extension their…

/article/hostile-hoots-make-robins-eat-less-night- 2025-09-22

A project at 51�ؿ����� in Sweden has trained an AI model to identify breast cancer patients who could be spared from axillary surgery. The model analyses previously unutilised information in mammograms and pinpoints with high…

/article/ai-model-lund-university-indicates-four-out-ten-breast-cancer-patients-could-avoid-axillary-surgery- 2025-09-22

Packed tightly together like twinkling stellar beehives, these globular clusters are made up of hundreds of thousands of stars. Now, for the first time, a team of scientists can reveal how the ancient and mysterious star systems actually…

/article/scientists-solve-astronomical-riddle- 2025-09-22

In a study led by 51�ؿ����� and the Amsterdam University Medical Center, researchers used PET to analyse aggregates of tau pathology in more than 12,000 people from all over the world. The study – the largest ever of its kind –…

/article/largest-ever-taupet-study-alzheimers-deepens-understanding-disease- 2025-09-17

What happens when we get out of the driver's seat and our vehicles become autonomous? Mathematician Viktor Larsson is developing methods to enable cars and drones to see their surroundings. This is his insight into the self-driving present…

/article/road-self-driving-future- 2025-09-17

51�ؿ����� archaeologists have revealed details of late medieval artillery from the wreck of the royal Danish-Norwegian flagship, Gribshunden. The shipwreck is the only known example of its kind from the medieval period – as both ship…

/article/uniquely-preserved-artillery-offers-clues-european-colonisation- 2025-09-17

Over 1,300 people have applied for the 25 positions advertised in 51�ؿ�����’s largest ever international recruitment drive. Among the candidates are researchers from world-leading universities such as Harvard and Oxford. “The…

/article/lund-universitys-largest-ever-international-recruitment-drive-attracts-great-interest- 2025-09-16

An innovative IVF test and a methane detector – these are some of the future innovation stars developed at 51�ؿ�����. They are now being recognised by the University and Sparbanken Skåne. Since its launch in 2017, the Future…

/article/innovative-ideas-and-pioneering-solutions-lund-university-celebrated- 2025-09-11

Professor Thoas Fioretos is the first recipient of Lunds Innovatörspris (the Lund Innovator Award), a newly established prize that recognises research that has been successfully transformed into innovation with a tangible impact on society…

/article/award-winning-cancer-researcher-revolutionises-diagnosis-and-treatment-worldwide- 2025-09-10

A new study from 51�ؿ����� in Sweden shows that migratory birds fly at peak efficiency at a medium pace – precisely the speed they use during their long journeys across the continents. Now, at the end of the summer, when the thrush…

/article/researchers-pinpoint-exact-pace-helps-nightingales-long-journey- 2025-09-05

Each year, one in four women suffers from bacterial vaginosis, something that is currently treated with antibiotics. However, recently a gentler, antibiotic-free alternative has been authorised for sale in the EU. The chance discovery…

/article/surprise-discovery-leads-treatment-common-infection- 2025-09-04

A simple urine test that can assess the risk of kidney cancer recurrence at an early stage could spare patients from frequent imaging scans, e.g. CT-scans, and thus reduce the associated radiation, anxiety and costs. This has been shown in…

/article/urine-test-can-assess-risk-kidney-cancer-recurrence- 2025-09-04

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…

/article/tiny-fatty-and-vital-meet-medicine-courier-future- 2025-09-04