(Photo montage: Logo by Financial Times, photo by Charlotte Carlberg Bärg.) Lund University School of Economics and Management has done it again! The school has been ranked #44 in the world in the Financial Times' prestigious annual ranking of 100 Master’s programmes in Management. This marks a climb of 13 spots compared with last year. Lund University's Master’s programme in International Strateg

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-climbs-even-higher-financial-times-ranking - 2025-08-27

Illustration: Johanna Rydeman Thousands of people could be spared from a hip fracture each year if a new method to identify the risk of osteoporotic fractures were to be introduced in healthcare. This is the view of the researchers at Lund University in Sweden who are behind a new 3D-simulation method. The results were recently published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. Osteoporosis ca

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-method-offers-hope-fewer-fractures - 2025-08-27

EU's 2022 textile strategy is predicted to revolutionise the fashion and textile industry, forcing the sector to reassess its existing fast fashion model and explore new, more sustainable business strategies. The UNEXPECTED event that took place 1 June in Lund gathered unique and diverse minds and organisations, that exemplifies the dynamism of human creativity. With limitless possibilities that e

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/innovation-happens-edges-0 - 2025-08-27

Photo: iStock/Gab13 Is it possible that a single biomarker can detect all types of diseases related to dopamine deficiency in the brain? Yes, that's what a research group in Lund is discovering. "We have observed that an enzyme in cerebrospinal fluid and in blood is a useful marker for identifying all types of Parkinson's-related diseases with high accuracy," says Oskar Hansson, who led the study.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-blood-marker-can-identify-parkinsonian-diseases - 2025-08-27

Photo: Viiru Pesonen/Wikimedia Commons One result of climate change is that spring is arriving earlier. However, migratory birds are not keeping up with these developments and arrive too late for the peak in food availability when it is time for breeding. By getting the birds to fly a little further north, researchers in Lund, Sweden, and the Netherlands have observed that these birds can give the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/migratory-birds-can-be-taught-adjust-climate-change - 2025-08-27

Photo: Hielko van der Hoorn Past cycles of climate change, along with human exploitation, have led to only small and isolated stocks of Atlantic walrus remaining. The current population is at high risk of the same issues affecting them severely, according to a new study led by Lund University in Sweden. Today, the last remaining stocks of Atlantic walrus are more at danger than ever, due to a comb

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/atlantic-walrus-more-vulnerable-ever-arctic-warming - 2025-08-27

Photo: iStock/choja Currently, a lot is known about which genes are responsible for our individual blood groups, however not much is understood about how and why the levels of the blood group molecules differ between one person to another. This can be important for blood transfusion safety. Now a research group at Lund University in Sweden has developed a toolbox that finds the answer – and in doi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-bioinfomatics-pipeline-solves-50-year-old-blood-group-puzzle - 2025-08-27

Photo: Pixabay If we can understand how and why light and matter behave as they do, we are one step closer to solving some of the most fundamental problems in physics. Finding the answers to these questions drives Ville Maisi, Associate Professor of Solid States Physics at NanoLund. As long as he can remember he has been interested electric circuits and physics. With the support of a new ERC Conso

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/understanding-behaviour-light-and-matter-key-future-technologies - 2025-08-27

At the Multipark Café, Tomas Björklund explained the complexity of the brain to an interested audience. Photo: Bodil Malmström In today's scientific world, microscopic images have become a powerful resource for research. With access to advanced microscopes, researchers can now create unique images of structures and objects. Beautiful and captivating images that can also convey complex context to a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/making-invisible-visible-magic-microscopic-images - 2025-08-27

Anne is met by cheers and joy from colleagues and students after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Anne L'Huillier, Professor of Atomic Physics at Lund University, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz on Tuesday. “It feels absolutely incredible. Fantastic! I am very proud”, she says. Anne L'Huillier received the ne

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-awarded-nobel-prize-physics - 2025-08-27

Photo: Flockine/Pixabay Using micro-engineered soil models, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have investigated the effect of tiny polystyrene particles on bacteria and fungi. While these nanoplastics reduced both bacterial and fungal growth, the fungus actually managed to "clean up" their surroundings, thereby easing the effect of the plastics. “Plastic waste is a huge global problem. Whet

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/vacuum-cleaner-effect-fungi-can-hold-nanoplastics-bay - 2025-08-27

Climate change and modern forestry methods result in more forest fires. Photo: iStockphoto All particles that reach the atmosphere cause different chemical reactions. Particles come partly from natural sources such as volcanic eruptions and forest fires, and partly from pollution and emissions. Aerosol researcher Johan Friberg studies particles at high altitudes. He fears that the global increase

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/increase-forest-fires-may-damage-crucial-ozone-layer - 2025-08-27

Johan Holmberg, Olivia Ritsvall, Karl Swärd, Marycarmen Arévalo-Martinez and Sebastian Albinsson. (Photo: Åsa Hansdotter) A research group at Lund University has studied how a molecular sensor located in the blood vessel wall, controls how the vessel compensates for high blood pressure. As we age, the sensor deteriorates, which can worsen vascular damage caused by high blood pressure and consequen

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-your-blood-vessels-tolerate-high-blood-pressure - 2025-08-27

A car is refueled with a liquid containing hydrogen. The fuel passes through the catalytic converter, where hydrogen is released into a fuel cell. When the hydrogen runs out, it is drained and filled with new liquid at the gas station. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden are investigating a car fuel comprised of a liquid that is converted to hydrogen by a solid catalyst. The used liquid is th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-catalyst-could-provide-liquid-hydrogen-fuel-future - 2025-08-27

Photo: iStock/NoSystem images International law supports women’s right to breastfeed in the public. However, women report having been subjected to negative responses and judgmental looks when breastfeeding outside the home. This is according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden, based on surveys answered by women living in Sweden, Ireland and Australia. The researchers behind the study sa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/negative-attitudes-towards-breastfeeding-public-still-issue - 2025-08-27

“At the time, I couldn’t imagine that my experiment could create such short pulses of light,” Anne L’Huillier later said of the discovery that paved the way for the Nobel Prize. Photo: ERCEA. This is the science behind the unimaginably quick attosecond pulses. The method can “photograph” electrons, giving us new insights into the inner life of atoms, and is the discovery that earned Anne L’Huillie

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/pulses-light-open-door-microcosm - 2025-08-27

Iryna Tsunovska and Nataliia Kohutyuk in Lund for a training course. Photo: Johan Persson Iryna Tsunovska and Nataliia Kohutyuk from Ukraine are taking home many new insights on how they can contribute to the protection of human rights in their professional roles. They have just completed a training course at Lund University for young policymakers, public servants and civil society workers from se

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/young-ukrainian-civil-servants-explore-human-rights-lund - 2025-08-27

Photo: Dean Drobot/MostPhotos Video games are easy to exploit, and are being used by actors ranging from IS and Hizbollah for recruitment, to Russia, who use it to spread propaganda during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. This according to a new report from Psychological Defence Research Institute at Lund University in Sweden. Since the 2016 US Presidential election, many democratic governments ha

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-video-games-are-being-used-foreign-actors-and-extremists - 2025-08-27

The study shows that large herbivores have a positive impact on variation in tree cover in the world’s protected areas. The picture shows Tarangire National Park in Tanzania. (Photo: Wikipedia) Using global satellite data, a research team has mapped the tree cover of the world’s protected areas. The study shows that regions with abundant large herbivores in many settings have a more variable tree

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/large-herbivores-such-elephants-bison-and-moose-contribute-tree-diversity - 2025-08-27

Illustration of phage virus injecting its DNA into a cell (Image: Alex Evilevitch and Ting Liu) Researchers at Lund University, together with colleagues at the NIST Synchrotron Facility in the USA, have mapped on an atomic level what happens in a virus particle when the temperature is raised. "When the temperature rises, the virus's genetic material changes its form and density, becoming more flui

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/temperature-increase-triggers-viral-infection - 2025-08-27