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Electrons used to control ultrashort laser pulses
We may soon get better insight into the microcosm and the world of electrons. Researchers at Lund University and Louisiana State University have developed a tool that makes it possible to control extreme UV light - light with much shorter wavelengths than visible light. The new method uses strong laser pulses to direct the short bursts of light.
Biological supercomputers to be powered by molecular motors
Crashing computers or smartphones - and security loopholes that allow hackers to steal millions of passwords - could be prevented if it were possible to design error-free software. To date, this is a problem that neither engineers nor current supercomputers have been able to solve.
Science week launch: Is the World Becoming a Better Place?
The ways we see the current state of the world differ. The science week Is the world becoming a better place? will kick off with music and a choral performance by the Palaestra Vocal Ensemble. We will also present the week and what it offers – everything from symposia, guided tours of the city of Lund, lectures, debates, and open house events for [...]
Watch: Electric shocks make dried herbs taste better
Certain dried herbs, such as basil, dill and coriander, can be a sad affair. But this could change. A group of researchers in Food Technology at Lund University in Sweden have discovered that by subjecting basil leaves to electric shock, the dried version both tastes and smells almost as if it were fresh.
INSIGHT incoming call! New video release!
The INSIGHT consortium has released a video illustrating their project and goals.In the video we learn how the dramatic increase in capacity of storage, communication and computation that has occurred in the last 45 years has resulted in a dramatic rise in power consumption. Even if a single transistor consumes very little, if we take a global [...]
Watch: Students develop vegan, gluten-free mud cake mix
A group of engineering students at Lund University in Sweden noticed that there were no vegan cake mixes available on the Swedish market. They set to work and came up with a dry mix that only requires the addition of oil and water. The final product contained no eggs or wheat flour, making it vegan as well as gluten-free – and had lower sugar [...]
New app makes the transport industry transparent
Swedish road freight companies that abide by work environment legislation, taxation regulations and environmental agreements have had a hard time surviving on a market where illegal transport operators can perform the same services at a much lower cost. A new app being developed at Lund University in Sweden makes the entire chain of transport [...]
Save your city centre – by shopping online
Many shopping districts have experienced a decrease in revenue as customers increasingly turn to shopping malls and e-commerce.
Smarter transistors could be three times more energy-efficient
Together with his research team, Lars-Erik Wernersson, professor of nanoelectronics at Lund University in Sweden, has developed a technology for smarter transistors which could be used in electronics that operate on low energy, such as sensors for the Internet of Things. Using the new transistors on a large scale could save enormous amounts of [...]
Dean's blog: Gender equality – not just for show
LTH is one of the faculties at Lund University that is considered to be single-gendered. This discussion focuses mainly on the number of female professors – a figure that at LTH is around 15 per cent, although the proportions vary greatly within the faculty. Obviously, we are not happy with this number; on the contrary, we will do our best to raise [...]
Lund University among the world's top 100 in latest THE ranking
Lund University is ranked in 96th place in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2016/17.
Earthquakes, sandslides and space exploration – the hidden forces of granular materials
Stephen Hall, lecturer in Solid Mechanics at Lund University, has led an international team of researchers in their search of explanations to complex behaviour of granular materials. Their results have now been published in Physical Review Letters, and their analysis of granular mechanics can eventually lead to better predictions of landslides and [...]
Lund University once again top 100 in the QS University Rankings
Lund University has once again been ranked as the number one university in Sweden and the 73rd best in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2016/17 that was released today.
Dean's blog: Thank you for choosing LTH!
Thank you for choosing Lund University and LTH! Today we held our introduction for almost 600 international Master’s and exchange students from roughly 50 different countries. It felt incredibly positive and the lecture hall was full of hope and expectation. It is great to feel the energy from all these students who have chosen Lund University as [...]
Researchers set new 5G-world record and earn multiple awards
Researchers at the universities of Lund and Bristol have conducted a number of experiments using a form of 5G technology called Massive MIMO (multiple input, multiple output), and set not one but two world records in so-called spectrum efficiency for wireless communication. Spectrum efficiency measures how much data can successfully be packed into [...]