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11 Jun 2021

Earth’s meteorite impacts over past 500 million years tracked

For the first time, a unique study conducted at Lund University in Sweden has tracked the meteorite flux to Earth over the past 500 million years. Contrary to current theories, res...

18 Apr 2021

Researchers find evidence of elusive Odderon particle

For 50 years, the research community has been hunting unsuccessfully for the so-called Odderon particle. Now, a Swedish-Hungarian research group has discovered the mythical particl...

16 Apr 2021

How to make smarter and more efficient electronics

We are facing new challenges, and consequently we need the development of electronics to continue. But the question is: how do we do that? Mattias Borg, co-coordinator of Explorato...

12 Apr 2021

X-rays and neutrons entering the metals and manufacturing industries

Researchers from the two Strategic Research Areas NanoLund and SPI (Sustainable Production Initiative, Chalmers and Lund University) have joined forces in a new collaboration toget...

6 Apr 2021

Double innovation prize to NanoLund

NanoLund researchers Martin Hjort, Yang Chen, and Martin Borgström have been awarded the Lund University and Sparbanken Skåne’s prize for future innovations. Their projects are nam...

9 Mar 2021

Anne L’Huillier wins the Max Born Award

The Optical Society, OSA, awards NanoLundian Atomic Physics professor Anne l’Huillier the Max Born Award for pioneering work in ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics.

25 Jan 2021

Nuclear physicist’s voyage towards a mythical island

Theories were introduced as far back as the 1960s about the possible existence of superheavy elements. Their most long-lived nuclei could give rise to a so-called “island of stabil...

13 Jan 2021

Observing the emergence of a quantum phase transition shell by shell

By studying cold atoms, researchers have in a unique way been able to observe a precursor to a quantum phase transition, and thereby study physical processes that can be compared t...

7 Jan 2021

ERC grant for one-step Covid detection

Christelle Prinz, professor of solid state physics and affiliated to NanoLund, receives 150,000 euros to further develop research results that are considered to have great innovati...

15 Dec 2020

Prestigious ERC consilidator grant awarded to Caterina Doglioni

What is all the dark matter in the universe made of? Could it be connected to new particles that can be produced at the Large Hadron Collider? Caterina Doglioni, assistant senior l...