Communicating the effectiveness of flood-mitigation schemes Published 31 March 2020 Categories Environment | Science A team of Leeds mathematicians and French civil engineers has developed a new way of visualising and analysing complex flood-protection schemes.
Longer lives not dependent on increased energy use Published 27 March 2020 Categories Science | Environment Growing consumption of energy and fossil fuels over four decades did not play a significant role in increasing life expectancy across 70 countries.
Leeds jointly launches first cancer coronavirus registry Published 27 March 2020 Categories Coronavirus | Health Oncologists from the Universities of Leeds, Birmingham and Oxford have launched the first cancer coronavirus registry in the world.
University steps up to help tackle coronavirus crisis Published 27 March 2020 Categories Coronavirus | University The University is playing its part in helping to reduce the burden of coronavirus (covid-19), both at a regional and national level.
Assessing the problem of poor sanitation Published 25 March 2020 Categories Technology | Health Experts are investigating a better way of measuring the number of people exposed to the health risks of poorly-managed sanitation systems.
Driving forward energy-efficient electronics Published 23 March 2020 Categories Science | Technology Scientists have made a breakthrough in the development of a new generation of electronics that will require less power and generate less heat.
Shining a light on international energy inequality Published 16 March 2020 Categories Science | Environment A new study has found extreme disparity in the use of energy among richer and poorer people - both within countries and between them.
Six-fold increase in polar ice losses since the 1990s Published 11 March 2020 Categories Global | Environment Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice faster than in the 1990s and are both tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s worst-case climate warming scenario.
Scientists identify new target for Parkinson’s therapies Published 9 March 2020 Categories Science | Health A master control region of a protein linked to Parkinson’s disease has been identified for the first time.
Tickling an atom to investigate the behaviour of materials Published 6 March 2020 Categories Science | Technology Scientists working at the frontier of nanotechnology face huge challenges.
Art historian Griselda Pollock wins Holberg Prize Published 5 March 2020 Categories Global | Arts & Culture Griselda Pollock, Leeds' Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art, was announced this morning as the recipient of this year’s Holberg Prize.
Changing the debate around obesity Published 4 March 2020 Categories Society & Politics | Health The NHS needs to do more to address the ingrained stigma and discrimination faced by people with obesity, a leading health psychologist says.
Tropical forests’ carbon sink 'already rapidly weakening' Published 4 March 2020 Categories Science | Environment The ability of the world’s tropical forests to remove carbon from the atmosphere is decreasing, according to a study tracking 300,000 trees over 30 years, published today in Nature.
Genetic ‘fingerprints’ implicate gut bacterium in bowel cancer Published 27 February 2020 Categories Science | Health A common type of bacteria found in our guts could contribute to bowel cancer, according to new research.
Global species loss could be halved Published 26 February 2020 Categories Global | Environment Extinction risk could decrease by more than 50% if at least 30% of land were to be conserved across the tropics, a new study reveals.