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Honor och hanar av fiskarten ruda reagerar olika på rovdjursframkallad stress, enligt en ny studie från Lunds universitet. Hanarna förändrar sitt utseende genom att växa på höjden för att undkomma glupska rovfiskar. Denna egenskap saknas helt hos honorna som därför oftare slukas av större fiskar. Vissa djur har utvecklat förmågan att ändra utseende för att försvara sig mot rovdjur om det behövs. S

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/honors-och-hanars-formaga-att-hantera-stress-kan-vara-skillnad-mellan-liv-och-dod - 2026-06-01

Olika fågelarter som migrerar har olika genetiskt programmerade rutiner som ger dem signaler när det är dags att ge sig av och återkomma. Det kan handla om faktorer som dagsljus, temperatur, väder och jordens magnetism. Dessa flyttprogram har studerats tidigare, men nya tekniker och beräkningskapacitet ger möjlighet att hantera stora mängder data och även simulera olika faktorer så att forskarna e

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/ai-fordjupar-forstaelse-flyttfaglars-inre-klocka-karta-och-kompass - 2026-06-01

Thomas Alerstam, professor emeritus i biologi, har tilldelats Wahlbergska minnesmedaljen i guld 2023 ”för hans innovation att med hjälp av radar spåra flyttfåglar i realtid och för att därmed ha tagit vår kunskap om flyttfåglarnas rutter och flyttmönster långt bortom den klassiska fågelmärkningens möjligheter”. Hur började ditt intresse för fåglar?– Det började när jag var i tonåren och cyklade ut

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/guldmedalj-studier-av-flyttfaglar - 2026-06-01

Fåglars flyttningsresor mellan kontinenter har fascinerat människan sedan antiken. Nu visar en ny studie från Lund att det är två platser i arvsmassan som bestämmer om en lövsångare flyttar över Iberiska halvön till västra Afrika eller över Balkan till östra och södra Afrika. Forskare har länge vetat att det är ett medfött beteende som gör att sångfåglar flyttar i en specifik riktning mot en avläg

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/gener-styr-lovsangarens-flyttrutter - 2026-06-01

Kroppsstorleken hos trollsländor varierar över jordklotet. Insekterna är större i de tempererade områdena än i tropikerna, något som beror på både temperatur och förekomsten av rovdjur, enligt en ny studie från Lunds universitet. I en global jämförelse av olika arter hos denna gamla insektsgrupp har forskarna studerat hur kroppsstorlek varierar geografiskt och mellan olika arter. De har jämfört in

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/rovdjur-och-temperatur-bestammer-kroppsstorleken-hos-insekter - 2026-06-01

Bibiana Prinoth has been awarded the Oscar II Scholarship 2026 for the best thesis at the Faculty of Science. The scholarship recognises the most prominent thesis presented during the past two years within each field at Lund University. In her work, Bibiana Prinoth studies distant and extreme planetary atmospheres using advanced spectroscopy, opening up new possibilities for understanding how plan

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/thesis-exploring-extreme-exoplanet-atmospheres-awarded-oscar-ii-scholarship - 2026-06-01

How do some planets end up extremely close to their host stars, despite appearing to have formed much farther away? A new international JWST study, led by the University of Southern Queensland in collaboration with MIT, seeks to answer this question. From Lund University, Judith Korth contributed key dynamical analysis. The study focuses on TOI‑1130b, a mini‑Neptune orbiting a star about 190 light

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/when-planets-migrate-lund-researcher-contributes-key-analysis-jwst-study - 2026-06-01

Physicist and Nobel Laureate Anne L’Huillier has been awarded this year’s Röntgen Plaque. The award ceremony will take place on 30 May in Remscheid, Germany. Anne L’Huillier, Professor of Atomic Physics at Lund University, receives the award for her groundbreaking contributions to attosecond physics. Her research has made it possible to study and understand ultrafast electron dynamics in matter, n

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/anne-lhuillier-awarded-rontgen-plaque-2026 - 2026-06-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Christelle Prinz, professor of solid state physics and affiliated to NanoLund, receives 150,000 euros to further develop research results that are considered to have great innovation potential by the European Research Council. For several years, physicist Christelle Prinz has developed nanotechnology to diagnose and s

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-grant-one-step-covid-detection - 2026-06-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. By studying cold atoms, researchers have in a unique way been able to observe a precursor to a quantum phase transition, and thereby study physical processes that can be compared to the Higgs mechanism. The discovery can, among other things, provide more knowledge about quantum mechanical processes that are similar to

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/observing-emergence-quantum-phase-transition-shell-shell - 2026-06-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What is all the dark matter in the universe made of? Could it be connected to new particles that can be produced at the Large Hadron Collider? Caterina Doglioni, assistant senior lecturer in particle physics, will search for new particles beyond the known fundamental components of matter with the ATLAS experiment at t

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/prestigious-erc-consilidator-grant-awarded-caterina-doglioni - 2026-06-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Building engines – out of proteins. That’s the aim for a research project, coordinated by Heiner Linke at NanoLund, Lund University in Sweden. The project is now being funded by the European Research Council (ERC) – it received a EUR 10 million ERC Synergy Grant. The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to resear

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-grant-awarded-research-project-protein-motors - 2026-06-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Optical Society, OSA, awards NanoLundian Atomic Physics professor Anne l’Huillier the Max Born Award for pioneering work in ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics. Anne L’Huillier, professor of Atomic Physics and affiliated member of NanoLund, has been awarded the Optical Society Max Born Award 2021 “for p

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/anne-lhuillier-wins-max-born-award - 2026-06-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A research project on how to observe and control the movement of electrons will soon commence at LTH thanks to a multi-million donation from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Per Eng-Johnsson, professor at the Division of Atomic Physics, will receive just over SEK 25 million for doing something that no one has

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/unique-research-project-electrons-awarded-grant - 2026-06-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NanoLund affiliated researcher recieves funding to develop a new microscope. Pablo Villanueva Perez, associate senior lecturer in Synchrotron Radiation Physics, will develop a completely new X-ray microscope to improve the study and filming of different materials in 3D. Today this is done using microtomography (μCT) b

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-starting-grant-rewarded-pablo-villanueva-perez - 2026-06-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. If silence is golden, speech is silver – and singing the worst. Singing doesn’t need to be silenced, however, but at the moment the wisest thing is to sing with social distancing in place. The advice comes from aerosol researchers at Lund University in Sweden. They have studied the amount of particles we actually emit

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/could-singing-spread-covid-19 - 2026-06-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers from the two Strategic Research Areas NanoLund and SPI (Sustainable Production Initiative, Chalmers and Lund University) have joined forces in a new collaboration together with major Swedish companies from the metals and manufacturing industries. The project aims to facilitate and improve the industry’s us

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/x-rays-and-neutrons-entering-metals-and-manufacturing-industries - 2026-06-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We are facing new challenges, and consequently we need the development of electronics to continue. But the question is: how do we do that? Mattias Borg, co-coordinator of Exploratory Nanotechnology, explains how. The basis of the electronics we use today, such as home computers and mobile phones, was invented more tha

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/how-make-smarter-and-more-efficient-electronics - 2026-06-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NanoLund researchers Martin Hjort, Yang Chen, and Martin Borgström have been awarded the Lund University and Sparbanken Skåne’s prize for future innovations. Their projects are named “Overcoming the shortage of blood stem cell donations with the help of nanotechnology” and “Transparent solar cells: solar cell windows”

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/double-innovation-prize-nanolund - 2026-06-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For 50 years, the research community has been hunting unsuccessfully for the so-called Odderon particle. Now, a Swedish-Hungarian research group has discovered the mythical particle with the help of extensive analysis of experimental data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. In 1973, two French parti

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/researchers-find-evidence-elusive-odderon-particle - 2026-06-01