Publicerad 16 april 2018 Bild: Tal Revivo/Mostphotos Den 24 april är det fem år sen textilfabrikskomplexet Rana Plaza i Bangladesh kollapsade och tog över tusen arbetares liv. Det ledde till en häftig debatt om ohållbara förhållanden både för miljön och för de som tillverkar kläderna. Vad har hänt sedan dess? Hör företrädare för modeindustrin, experter och forskare i en paneldiskussion på Fashion

https://www.lu.se/artikel/fashion-revolution-day-moderevolution-pa-gang - 2025-03-23

Av evelina [dot] linden [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - publicerad 16 april 2018 Foto: Finansdepartemenetet Regeringens vårbudget med 2,6 miljarder kronor till att bland annat stärka tryggheten i samhället och göra vården mer tillgänglig och effektiv får inte riktigt nationalekonomen Andreas Bergh att göra vågen. Han vädrar valårstaktik och hade istället velat se tydligare prioriteri

https://www.lu.se/artikel/forskarkommentar-varbudgeten-gor-inte-mycket-att-rusta-sverige - 2025-03-23

Publicerad 17 april 2018 Mikroskopet är känsligt för vibrationer och magnetfält och därför placerat i en betongbunker. Kimberly Dick Thelander är en forskarna som kommer använda mikroskopet. Bild: Kristina Lindgärde Ett nytt mikroskop med superskarp upplösning – bilden kan förstoras upp till 50 miljoner gånger – har flyttat in på Kemicentrum. I första skedet ska det användas av nanoforskare som dä

https://www.lu.se/artikel/nu-gar-det-att-se-hur-nanotradar-vaxer-i-direktsandning - 2025-03-23

Publicerad 17 april 2018 Bild: Lunds universitet Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö och Umeå blir teststäder i ett nytt nationellt program för delningsekonomi. "Framtidens städer står inför stora utmaningar. Sverige ska bli ledande när det gäller att utveckla de lösningar som delningsekonomin innebär, säger Kes McCormick vid Lunds universitet. Den 23 april lanseras programmet Sharing Cities Sweden. Bilar,

https://www.lu.se/artikel/fyra-svenska-stader-blir-testpiloter-delningsekonomi - 2025-03-23

Publicerad 17 april 2018 Karin Lundgren-Kownacki förbereder försöksperson inför cykling i klimatkammaren. Bild Erik Andersson. Människor som arbetar i varma klimat är en utsatt grupp när klimatförändringarna bidrar till allt högre temperaturer. Att arbeta i hetta kan leda till värmestress med negativa hälsoeffekter som följd. Om temperaturen fortsätter stiga kommer det inte vara möjligt att arbeta

https://www.lu.se/artikel/vart-allt-varmare-klimat-paverkar-arbetslivet - 2025-03-23

Publicerad 17 april 2018 Fr vä: Doktorand Lukas Tomas, försteförfattare tillsammans med forskargruppsledaren Harry Björkbacka. Foto: Björn Martinsson Ny forskning från Lunds universitet visar att inflammerade, instabila åderförkalkningsplack har en ämnesomsättning som särskiljer dem från stabila plack. Resultaten visar också på likheter mellan ämnesomsättningen i instabila plack och cancerceller.

https://www.lu.se/artikel/nya-ron-om-amnesomsattning-och-plack-kan-lyfta-hjart-karlforskning - 2025-03-23

Publicerad 17 april 2018 Illustration: Alessandro Tota (artist), Fiamma Luzzati (storyboard artist) . Under 2017 tog ERC, European Research Council, ett nytt grepp för att göra forskning tillgänglig för en bredare publik – nämligen tecknade serier. Malin Parmar, professor i cellulär neurovetenskap vid Lunds universitet och med anslag från bland annat ERC, är en av de svenska forskare som fick en t

https://www.lu.se/artikel/sista-avsnittet-av-erccomics-cells-life - 2025-03-23

Published 20 April 2022 Kalle Åström. Photo: Jessika Sellergren Mathematics Professor Kalle Åström studies the future of agriculture with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). He develops mathematical models to optimise harvests and contribute to climate-friendly agriculture. Artificial intelligence and agriculture may seem like two different worlds, but not for Kalle Åström. On the contrary,

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/ai-provides-agricultural-intelligence - 2025-03-23

Published 5 July 2022 ALMEDALEN. Bristen på tillgänglig vårddata är ett hinder för att ta AI vidare in i hälso- och sjukvården. – Jag skulle vilja ha data från alla regioner. Det bästa vore om man på ett nationellt sätt kunde samla in data i ett register, säger Mattias Ohlsson, professor i beräkningsbiologi vid Lunds universitet. Läs mer på dagensmedicin.se.

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/dagens-medicin-brist-pa-data-ett-hinder-vardens-ai-utveckling - 2025-03-23

Published 30 May 2022 Building robots is not a privilege reserved for engineering students at LTH. Lundagård talked to Mia Huovilainen and Theodor Årnfelt to learn how robotics is applied in cognitive science. Read more at lundagard.se

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/lundsgard-robotic-sensations-lux - 2025-03-23

By emma [dot] boberg [at] er [dot] lu [dot] se (Emma Boberg) - published 25 October 2022 Master's student Hannes Olsson is currently studying his last semester at the civil engineering programme of Industrial Management and Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering. He is studying a Master's in Supply Chain Management and did his degree project within Artificial Intelligence – without earlier know

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/hannes-olsson - 2025-03-23

By emma [dot] boberg [at] er [dot] lu [dot] se (Emma Boberg) - published 25 October 2022 For Marcus Ascard, the interest in artificial intelligence (AI) started in his early studies – he was fascinated by how a computer could play a computer game by itself. Today, the engineering student has gained working experience in artificial intelligence from two different companies, and pictures a future ca

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/marcus-ascard - 2025-03-23

Published 20 December 2022 As the holiday season approaches, we would like to extend our warmest wishes to you all.    After last year’s restrictive situation we are so happy to have been able to meet in person during 2022. Even so there are lessons to be learned and we are therefore staying partly with digital formats that work well. Here are some highlights from the past year: AI related Degree

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/season-greetings-ai-lund - 2025-03-23

Published 18 January 2023 The first call for applications, Sustainable Idea Exploration, within the University’s Sustainability Fund opened during the autumn. The aim is to explore the innovative potential of sustainability-related research projects at an early stage. Four projects have now been granted funding. One of the projekts addresses text mining for environmental science and was applied fo

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/project-text-mining-environmental-science-gets-funding-universitys-sustainability-fund - 2025-03-23

Published 20 February 2023 Patients are often asked to rate their feelings using a rating scale, when talking to psychologists or doctors about their mental health. This is currently how depression and anxiety are diagnosed. However, a new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that allowing patients to describe their experience using their own words - is potentially viewed as more precise and

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/luse-ai-could-improve-mental-health-care - 2025-03-23

Published 21 August 2023 The annual Space Research School was organized here in late August by Astronomic Youth (Astronomisk Ungdom) in collaboration with Lund Observatory. Attending this year's Space Research School were twenty intelligent, motivated and space-interested high school students from across Sweden.   During their 10 days in Lund the group of high school students attended several lect

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/rfs-2023-space-research-school - 2025-03-23

Published 12 December 2023  Back in 2001 the then Department of Astronomy moved from the old observatory at Svanelyckan (Stadsparken) to Sölvegatan 27.  Today it was time for the astronomers to move again.  Next time you want to visit the Division of Astronomy, we will be located in the A400 corridoor in the Physics building. Welcome.   

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/division-astrophysics-moves-a400 - 2025-03-23

Published 26 January 2024 The second ARRAKIHS consortium meeting was held in Lund in January. Progress of the mission study and the development of the project's instruments was discussed during this three day meeting.

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/second-arrakihs-consortium-meeting - 2025-03-23

By rebecca [at] astro [dot] lu [dot] se (Rebecca Forsberg) - published 16 February 2024 The image, taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, shows a high-resolution view of the innermost parts of the Milky Way. In the new study, the researchers examined the dense nuclear star cluster shown in detail here. (Photo: ESO) Note: This PR was published by Lund University on 01/12/2023 Through analy

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/astronomers-determine-age-three-mysterious-baby-stars-heart-milky-way - 2025-03-23

By anna [at] astro [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Arnadottir) - published 10 March 2023 Rebecca Forsberg and Nic Borsato continue to host our astronomy podcast 'The Meridian'.    In this third season they interview prominent researchers, such as NASA astronaut Jim Pawelczyk, professor at Penn State University in Kinesiology and Physiology, Ruth Pöttgen, a senior lecturer at the Department of Physics, Jud

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/third-season-meridian-astronomy-podcast-released - 2025-03-23