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Award-winning architects to design new student hub on western campus

Published: 22 November 2019
Categories: News | University

The University of Leeds has announced ambitious plans to create a flagship building for students and staff at the heart of the western campus, supported by a generous gift from the Laidlaw Foundation.

A microscope image of brain tumour cells shows lots of small pink moving blobs on a back background.

Unpredictable evolution in brain tumours

Published: 21 November 2019
Categories: Science | Health

When brain tumours are treated with radiation or chemotherapy their cells evolve in a way that appears to be random, according to research published today in Nature.

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Skipping breakfast linked to lower GCSE grades

Published: 20 November 2019
Categories: Health

Students who rarely ate breakfast on school days achieved lower GCSE grades than those who ate breakfast frequently, according to a new study in Yorkshire.

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Online tool captures real time reactions of voters watching TV leaders’ debates

Published: 19 November 2019
Categories: Society & Politics

A sophisticated online platform that allows television viewers watching political leadership debates to react in real time was test-driven during tonight’s first head-to-head contest.

Greenhouse gas nitrous oxide is on the rise

Published: 18 November 2019
Categories: Environment | Science

During the last two decades agricultural practices and nitrogen-rich fertilisers have significantly increased the amount of nitrous oxide emissions in the atmosphere, according to a new study.

A female health professional in a white coat and blue gloves holds a colonoscopy device.

Bowel cancer rates after colonoscopy vary by provider

Published: 14 November 2019
Categories: Health

A colonoscopy is the main test used to detect bowel cancer, but like most tests, it is not always 100% accurate and cancers can be missed.

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Thanks a million! Single-use plastic pledge

Published: 11 November 2019
Categories: University

One million pieces of single-use plastic have been removed from use across campus during the past 12 months.

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Drone wireless system can help rescue workers ‘see’ inside buildings

Published: 11 November 2019
Categories: Technology | Science | Global

Engineers have developed a prototype drone-mounted wireless scanning system, which can fly up the outside of a high rise building and detect the whereabouts of individuals who may be trapped inside.

Children playing wallops (nine-pins) in the street at Castle Bolton in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, 1964. A group of men can be seen sitting on a bench, watching men from the village playing quoits on the grass verge.

Can you tell ferntickles from branny-speckles?

Published: 8 November 2019
Categories: Society & Politics | Arts & Culture

A small army of volunteers is to be recruited to help update the most comprehensive survey of England’s dialects ever undertaken, thanks to an injection of funding.

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Vitamin D dials down the aggression in melanoma cells

Published: 6 November 2019
Categories: Science | Health

Vitamin D influences the behaviour of melanoma cells in the lab by making them less aggressive, scientists have found.

A robot arm attempts to navigate a number of objects on a table top, in order to get at an apple.

Worker robots that learn from mistakes

Published: 4 November 2019
Categories: News | Technology

Practise makes perfect – it is an adage that has helped humans become highly dexterous, and now it is an approach that is being applied to robots.

Two nurses stand in a hospital room with a large radiotherapy machine pointing towards a treatment table, under low blue lighting.

Leeds scientists lead next generation of radiotherapy treatments

Published: 4 November 2019
Categories: Science | Health

Leeds scientists and clinicians have been awarded a major cash boost from Cancer Research UK to pioneer new radiotherapy technologies that could help more people in Yorkshire survive cancer.

Image shows a pictuire of the MRSA bacteria under an electron miscroscope

'Wolves in sheep's clothing' – the superbugs outsmarting lab tests

Published: 30 October 2019
Categories: Science | Health

Hospital screening tests are failing to identify the true extent of microbial resistance, according to new research.

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Research Spotlight - October 2019

Published: 29 October 2019
Categories: University

October's round-up of some of the latest research and education stories from the University.

A young woman in a lab coat is holding a pipette and concentrating on moving liquids for a scientific experiment.

Training a new cohort of biological scientists

Published: 25 October 2019
Categories: University | Science

The White Rose universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York have received renewed Government funding for 150 PhD researchers in the biological sciences.

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