Shorter treatment times for radiotherapy, better precision and a reduced risk of damage adjacent tissue. The new radiotherapy clinic at Skåne University Hospital in Lund will be the most advanced in Europe. With six new treatment rooms featuring the very latest technology and new methods developed in collaboration with Lund...
A unique way of combining satellite imaging methods has shown that regional agricultural growth is slowly taking place within North Korea. A Lund University research team has identified an expansion of agricultural land far away from the ruling elite in Pyongyang. Satellite images of night-time lights are a common way...
The exploitation of the earth over the past hundred years, in combination with climate change, is leaving its mark in the sediment in the depths of the sea, in the form of dead seabeds. When the researchers look deeper down into the sediment, it emerges that periods of oxygen depletion...
Dead zones in the Baltic Sea have grown to ten times their size over the last 115 years, according to a major study involving Lund University researchers. Together with an international team of scientists, Professor Daniel Conley at Lund University found that the ‘dead zone’ has grown from about 5,000...
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose, goes the holiday classic. And now, a Lund University research team in Sweden has captured the phenomenon with a thermographic camera. See clip on Youtube The video footage was filmed at the Zoo of Nordic Animals in Sweden, the world’s largest...
“Citizen science” is not a new phenomenon, but modern technology has opened up great opportunities for hundreds of thousands of people around the world to help achieve advancements in research by reporting data on topics including flora and fauna, seas and medicine. Information is gathered through websites, social media like...
In ten years, a blood test may be all that is needed for your doctor to see if you have cancer and decide what treatment is best for you personally. The specific combination of proteins in the blood reveals whether or not you are ill. Analysing the composition of proteins...
Can you become ill from doing laundry? Clothes contain traces of washing powder which are released into the indoor air when they are tumble-dried. Researchers at the Division of Ergonomics and Aerosol Technology at Lund University are investigating how inhaling the particles affects us. The particles we inhale are zeolites,...
Paying for a coffee or lunch by simply scanning your palm still sounds like science fiction to most of us. However, an engineering student at Lund University in Sweden has made it happen – making his the first known company in the world to install the vein scanning technique in...
