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11 Dec 2025
New technology reveals migratory birds’ stunning precision in flight
Red-backed shrikes fly thousands of kilometres to reach Africa – and they do so with astonishing precision. Aided by new technology, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have b...
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11 Dec 2025
Lund University researchers awarded major EU grant
Biologists Michael Bok and Cecilia Nilsson have been awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant to further study how not to disrupt animal flight and the evolution of eyesight.
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10 Dec 2025
Honeybees crowd out bumblebees – even on flower-rich heathlands
When the late summer sun falls over Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains, the slopes turn purple with blooming heather. Honeybees are moved to the heathlands for the sought-after heather ho...
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1 Dec 2025
Turning scientific rivals into partners
How should scientists handle deep disagreements? A new paper by researcher Juan Gefaell and Professor Tobias Uller at Lund University introduces a more constructive way to deal wit...
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26 Nov 2025
Old air samples from the military reveal climate change
Through the DNA analysis of old air samples collected by the Swedish Armed Forces, researchers at Lund University in Sweden can show that spore dispersal of northern mosses has shi...
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23 Oct 2025
Warmer Nordic springs double the incidence of avian malaria
A unique long-term study, in which samples were collected from the same population of blue tits over a 30-year period, shows that rising spring temperatures have doubled the incide...
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6 Oct 2025
Hidden highways of the sky mapped
High above us, the atmosphere is teeming with life. Birds, bats and insects share the airspace, but divide it into different lanes of traffic. New research from Lund University in ...
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23 Sep 2025
Staffan Bensch receives ERC Advanced Grant for research on songbird migration behaviour
Staffan Bensch, professor at the Department of Biology, receives an ERC Advanced Grant for his project “Genetics of long-distance migration”.
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5 Sep 2025
Not too fast, not too slow – the perfect pace for migrating birds
A new study from Lund University shows that migratory birds fly most efficiently at moderate speeds – precisely the pace they use during their long journeys across continents.
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19 Jun 2025
Moths use stars and Earth’s magnetic field as a compass
A groundbreaking study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the Australian Bogong moth uses the stars and the Milky Way as a compass during its annual 1,000-kilometre journey ...
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