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Det finns en liten cyklop bland dina äldsta förfäder. Det visar ny forskning om ögats evolution. Vi människor delar dessa uppseendeväckande släktrötter med alla andra ryggradsdjur. Forskare vid Lunds universitet har i en ny studie kommit fram till att alla ryggradsdjur har utvecklats via en avlägsen förfader som hade ett enda öga, placerat högst upp på huvudet. Forskningsstudien visar också att re

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/enogd-varelse-gav-upphov-till-vara-moderna-ogon - 2026-07-29

I jorden under våra fötter pågår ett myllrande liv, avgörande för både mat och klimat. Ändå tar vi ofta detta dolda ekosystem för givet. Med ny teknik, forskning och kultur öppnar markekologen Edith Hammer och hennes kollegor, tillsammans med konstnärsduon (p)Art of the Biomass, ett helt nytt fönster till underjorden och en värld få av oss har sett. –Vissa hyser till och med negativa känslor till

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/ett-fonster-till-underjorden-forskning-om-jord-moter-kultur - 2026-07-29

När fiskar från olika miljöer möts är det inte alltid romantik i vattnet. Ny forskning från Lunds universitet visar att aggressiva honor aktivt kan stoppa hanar från ”fel” miljö – ett beteende som i förlängningen kan bidra till att nya arter uppstår. Att förstå hur arter bildas är en av biologins mest grundläggande frågor. I en ny studie har forskare undersökt olika populationer av den säregna mos

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/aggressiva-fiskhonor-satter-stopp-parning-kan-driva-fram-nya-arter - 2026-07-29

Var har brottsmisstänkta befunnit sig innan brottet begicks? Var tillverkades en bomb eller ett parti narkotika? En ny teknik som spårar fragment av miljö-DNA kan ge ledtrådar till svaren. Genetikern Eran Elhaik vid Lunds universitet har utvecklat ett AI-baserat verktyg som kan bidra till kriminaltekniska utredningar. Tekniken bygger på att använda miljö-DNA.– Användningen av miljö-DNA öppnar en n

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/ny-dna-teknik-kan-hjalpa-polisen - 2026-07-29

En liten insekt som lever på snö äger en oväntad superkraft: den kan producera egen värme för att klara minusgrader. Upptäckten ger ny förståelse för hur liv kan fungera i extrema miljöer. Snöflugan, en märklig harkrank som är aktiv mitt i vintern, rör sig på snön i temperaturer mellan cirka 0 och -7 grader. För de flesta insekter innebär sådana temperaturer en säker död. Men snöflugan har utveckl

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/huttrande-harkrank-trotsar-vargavintern-med-vardefull-varmestrategi - 2026-07-29

Inte bara människor kan drabbas av luftföroreningarnas negativa effekter. Nu visar forskning att även fåglar får mätbara förändringar i kroppen av nedsmutsande sotpartiklar som de andas in. De negativa hälsoeffekterna av luftföroreningar är väl studerade hos människor, men man vet fortfarande relativt lite om hur djur med annan fysiologi och olika andningssätt påverkas av förorenad luft. En ny avh

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/sa-paverkar-bilavgaser-stadens-faglar - 2026-07-29

Mossor och levermossor är vanliga i skogar, våtmarker och på klippor – men deras kemiska innehåll är fortfarande relativt lite utforskat. Nu undersöker ett europeiskt forskningsprojekt om dessa små växter kan bli en källa till nya bioaktiva ämnen för exempelvis kosmetika och läkemedel. Projektet BRYOMOLECULES har nu nått halvvägs. Vid Lunds universitet deltar professor Nils Cronberg och doktorande

https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/sma-vaxter-kan-rymma-stora-mojligheter - 2026-07-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. After climate change, biodiversity loss is the biggest environmental challenge facing the world today. The loss of plant and animal species also means a loss of the resources that humans obtain from well-functioning ecosystems. At Lund University, a project is underway in which researchers are studying how work to cou

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/green-infrastructure-planning-and-designing-functioning-nature - 2026-07-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Sweden does not need more cattle to save natural grazing land with high biodiversity. This is the conclusion of a new report by researchers at Lund University in Sweden. What is needed instead, according to the researchers, are economic incentives that make natural grazing profitable. Natural grazing land is a central

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/profitability-not-more-cattle-needed-save-natural-grazing-land - 2026-07-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In recent decades, the climate in Sweden has become about two degrees warmer on average and this year we have seen an unprecedentedly mild winter and early spring. How is nature responding – animals, insects, plants – to an increasingly mild climate? Researchers in Lund can provide the answer. Among other things, a ne

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/unusually-early-spring-how-nature-sweden-responding-increasingly-warm-climate - 2026-07-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We appreciate your participation in the online conference, which was a very successful joining of about 100 participants. April 23 and 24 were two very rewarding days, filled with interesting sessions, poster presentations, office yoga, group discussions, as well as fruitful conversations and sharing of expertise. The

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/thank-you-participating-cecs-online-science-says-conference-and-becc-merge-spring-meeting - 2026-07-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A study from Lund University indicates that the flora of Skåne in southern Sweden changed drastically throughout the 1900s and up to the present day. The greatest decline in species diversity can be seen in forested areas in the northern and central parts of Skåne. “I was surprised that climate change has had the bigg

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/dramatic-changes-regional-flora - 2026-07-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The graduate research schools ClimBEco and the Bolin Centre Climate Research School (CRS) have recently initiated a collaboration with multiple climate-focused intentions. The joint activities will strengthen the course curriculum and network possibilities for the respective PhD students and contribute to the advancem

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-strengthens-climate-and-biodiversity-research - 2026-07-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A unique study has analyzed in detail how EU agricultural subsidies flow down to the local level. The new data show that most income support payments go to intensively farmed regions already above median EU income, while climate-friendly and biodiverse farming regions, as well as poorer regions, are insufficiently fun

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/revealed-how-billions-eu-farming-subsidies-are-being-misspent - 2026-07-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Population density, and not the proportion of green spaces, has the biggest impact on species richness of pollinators in residential areas. This is the result of a study from Lund University in Sweden of gardens and residential courtyards in and around Malmö, Sweden. The result surprised the researchers, who had expec

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/high-human-population-density-negative-pollinators - 2026-07-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden can now reveal what the Danish King Hans had planned to offer when laying claim to the Swedish throne in 1495: a two-metre-long Atlantic sturgeon. The well-preserved fish remains were found in a wreck on the bottom of the Baltic Sea last year, and species identification was mad

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/atlantic-sturgeon-kings-pantry-unique-discovery-baltic-sea-wreck-1495 - 2026-07-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CEC is one of the actors behind a new international education programme with the purpose to strengthen innovation in the public sector and support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. The target group is public service professionals in Indonesia and Turkey, and it is now open for applications. The programme is a par

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-provides-education-co-design-and-inclusive-public-environments - 2026-07-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The climate crisis has received less media coverage during the corona pandemic despite that many think the climate challenges demand equally urgent attention. During the coming two weeks the United Nations gather the world in the Climate Dialogues 2020 “to increase the momentum for greater climate ambition” in an onli

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/global-climate-dialogues-boost-climate-work - 2026-07-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at the Pufendorf Institute are working together in a Theme about Invasive Alien Plants, and are interested in finding out how the public, as well as experts, regard different plants in private gardens as well as in public spaces. Why are certain plants defined as more desirable than others, by whom, and ho

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/researchers-want-know-how-public-perceive-invasive-alien-plants - 2026-07-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How can previous warm periods in the ocean help us better understand the ongoing climate change? PhD student Sha Ni defends her dissertation at CEC this week with fossil findings that can improve the knowledge of the current global warming. Congratulations on your dissertation coming up! How would you describe your re

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/past-ocean-conditions-give-clues-marine-environmental-changes - 2026-07-29