Universal school lunch programs make students healthier, and increase their lifetime income by 3%, according to a unique study from Lund University in Sweden published in The Review of Economic Studies: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdab028 Health disparities arise early in life and play a major role in economic outcomes among adults. Yet there are few studies on the […]
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What COVID-19 can teach tourism about the climate crisis
July 16, 2020 – The global coronavirus pandemic has hit the tourism industry hard worldwide. Not only that, but it has exposed a lack of resilience to any type of downturn, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden. While the virus may or may not be temporary, the climate crisis is here to […]
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Plastic waste disintegrates into nanoparticles that can reach far into living organisms’ bodies
Dec. 19, 2018 – There is a considerable risk that plastic waste in the environment releases nano-sized particles known as nanoplastics, according to a new study from Lund University. The researchers studied what happened when takeaway coffee cup lids, for example, were subjected to mechanical breakdown, in an effort to mimic the degradation that happens […]
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The common swift flies ten months on end without landing
Oct. 28, 2016 – The common swift flies ten months on end without landing. The hypothesis on these birds’ life in the air was presented by British researcher Ron Lockley back in 1970, but it is only now that researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed to prove the extreme lifestyle of the species. […]