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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “For us in the social sciences, it is very important to highlight that there is no simple link between climate change and migration”, says Dr. Angela Oels, a visiting professor at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS). “In fact, multiple factors influence the decision to migrate.” Angela Oels

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/climate-migration-focus-official-cop21-side-event - 2026-06-11

In France, there has long been a heated debate over gender-inclusive language, with critics warning that it makes texts difficult to read. However, a new thesis shows that the forms work as intended. They make women more visible in the reader’s mind, without significantly compromising readability. In French, all nouns have a grammatical gender and are either masculine or feminine. On top of that,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-studies-challenge-debate-french-language - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Mohammed Bin Salman lättar på landets strama tyglar. Kommentar av CMES Dalia Abdelhady. Den saudiske kronprinsen Mohammed Bin Salman har väckt internationell uppmärksamhet med sin reformvänliga linje. Sedan han utsågs till kronprins 2017, kan kvinnor nu köra bil, gå på fotbollsmatcher och resa utan manligt tillstånd.

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/de-saudiska-reformerna-mest-en-fasad - 2026-06-11

Is it possible to improve the antibodies that the body produces to fight SARS-CoV2? In a study led by researchers from Lund University in Sweden, this was investigated by redesigning antibodies and combining them against the virus. The modified antibodies have been tested in human cells and with mice. Many antibodies used to treat covid infection during the pandemic have been so-called neutralizin

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cocktail-modified-antibodies-provides-strong-effect-against-sars-cov-2 - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. As resistance to existing antibiotics increases, new approaches to serious bacterial infections are needed. Now researchers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) in the US, have investigated one such alternative. “We were able to show that a tai

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/specially-designed-protein-fights-several-species-bacteria - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Advocate General Sylvaine Laulom, Cour de Cassation, France, Professor Anne Ruth Mackor, University of Groningen, and Assistant Professor Anders Nordgaard, Linköping University, have been appointed honorary doctors at the Faculty of Law at Lund University. Sylvaine LaulomSylvaine Laulom (born 1967) is Advocate General

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-honorary-doctors-law-lund-university - 2026-06-11

A rare discovery of the book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus has been made at the Lund University Library in Sweden. The book had seemingly been hiding in plain sight for over 100 years, and was only discovered when over 800,000 library catalog cards were digitised. ”This is the sort of information that disappears through the centuries, but is now able to be d

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/rare-copy-copernicus-book-found-lund-university - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Crashing computers or smartphones - and security loopholes that allow hackers to steal millions of passwords - could be prevented if it were possible to design error-free software. To date, this is a problem that neither engineers nor current supercomputers have been able to solve. A major reason for this is the compu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/biological-supercomputers-be-powered-molecular-motors - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The question of how small, dwarf galaxies have sustained the formation of new stars over the course of the Universe has long confounded the world’s astronomers. An international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has found that dormant small galaxies can slowly accumulate gas over many billions of years. W

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-stars-form-smallest-galaxies - 2026-06-11