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9 Jul 2026
Researchers mimic life’s own engines
The most advanced engines are not found in airplanes, cars, or other machines – they are found in nature. Inside our cells, tiny protein motors power everything from cell division ...
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7 Jul 2026
Driving the resonator in the nonlinear regime makes detecting faster
In a recent article, Harald Havir et al. present a method for rapid and efficient detection of electrical charge in quantum systems using a nonlinear resonator that amplifies the s...
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2 Jul 2026
Several researchers get funding from the Crafoord Foundation
Malin Alsved, Vanya Darakchieva, Javier Escobar Alcon, Xu Hou, Megan Landberg, Filip Lenrick, Anders Mikkelsen, Wei Qui, Ivan Scheblykin, Yukta Yukta, and Kshipra Sharma are awarde...
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2 Jul 2026
“Theory made me realize how what we learn in school is applied in research”
The annual summer scholarship for high school students in Skåne is a programme that offers teenagers a chance to dive into what it is like to work in research. This year, students ...
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19 Jun 2026
Making quantum information remain stable in the presence of noise
PhD student William Samuelson et al have developed a theoretical framework showing how Majorana bound states can remain robust even in strongly interacting quantum systems.
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18 Jun 2026
Anne L’Huillier awarded the Röntgen Plaque 2026
Physicist and Nobel Laureate Anne L’Huillier has been awarded this year’s Röntgen Plaque. The award ceremony took place on 30 May in Remscheid, Germany.
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17 Jun 2026
What is quantum science – and why is everyone talking about it?
Quantum. The word is appearing more and more frequently in discussions about future technologies, security, medicine and computing. At the same time, the field is often perceived a...
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11 Jun 2026
New centre to strengthen Sweden in the quantum race
In a joint initiative, six Swedish universities are now joining forces to establish the Swedish Center for Quantum Technology, a national centre for research, innovation, education...
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5 Jun 2026
Gas Actuated Bonding – a new framework for controllable, flexible metal joining
Metal joining remains an essential yet challenging process in manufacturing, particularly for components with small dimensions, multiplex, delicate geometries, or dissimilar metals...
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1 Jun 2026
The semiconductors of the future – “magical” if they work
Semiconductors are a cornerstone of all electronics around which the modern world revolves. But they need to become much more energy efficient. Researchers at two Swedish universit...
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21 May 2026
A promising approach towards efficient artificial light harvesting
In an article published in Nature Communications, researchers Fan Wu, Tu C. Nguyen-Phan, Richard Cogdell, and Tönu Pullerits suggest that optical microcavities can be a strategic t...
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8 May 2026
A deeper understanding of the dynamics within ferroic materials
Jesper Wallentin has been awarded the Röntgen-Ångström Project Grant for the project “X-MOOSE: X-ray Microscopy with On-chip Sample Environments”, together with colleagues at Lund ...
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29 Apr 2026
Taming the insulin gene – with nanoelectroporation
More than half a billion people are affected by type 2 diabetes – and the number is growing. In a recent publication in the journal Small, researchers explain how nanoelectroporati...
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16 Apr 2026
NanoLundian heading for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
For the 75th time, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting will be arranged. It takes place in Bayern, Germany, by the beautiful Bodensee. One of the participants this year is NanoLund p...
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2 Apr 2026
Contributing to new strategic research areas
The Swedish Research Council has recently recommended that the government establish new strategic research areas. In two of them, researchers within NanoLund play key roles: Quantu...
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31 Mar 2026
Molecular links between nanoplastics and Alzheimer’s pathways
Think of the proteins in your brain as delicate pieces of origami. A new study from the Medical Microspectroscopy group at Lund University reveals that polystyrene nanoplastics, co...
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10 Mar 2026
ERC proposal writing support 2026 is kicked-off
This year we are organising support activities on how to write a competitive proposal for an ERC grant. And we are happy to see so many taking part in the first workshop with a dee...
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24 Feb 2026
“Around Lund’s major flagships, we have a unique opportunity”
The development of the Lund innovation district places LTH in a highly central position. At LTH, we continue to evaluate the opportunities that an establishment there could offer, ...
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20 Feb 2026
A robust and versatile platform for many-body engineering
Since the discovery of graphene twenty years ago, physicists have been looking for materials that consist of two-dimensional layers. This study is about a newly emerging family, th...
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12 Feb 2026
How bee brains are shaping next-generation computer chips
Can a bee’s brain teach us to build better computers? Bees navigate with remarkable precision using less than one hundredth of a watt of energy, while today’s navigation chips ofte...