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Biodiversity estimates ‘coming of age’

Published
23 January 2018
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Science
Environment

An international competition to estimate the diversity of plants across the whole of Britain has shown that mathematical modelling techniques are ‘coming of age’.

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Ancient outcrops give new depth limit for deep-sea burrows

Published
10 January 2018
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Science
Environment

Scientists have found fossil evidence of deep-sea marine life burrowing at least eight metres below the seabed – four times the previously observed depth for modern deep-sea life.

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Women at greater risk after heart attacks

Published
8 January 2018
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Science
Health

Fewer women who suffer a heart attack each year in the UK would die if they were simply given the same treatments as men, according to new research.

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How fungi helped create life as we know it

Published
15 December 2017
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Science
Environment

Today our world is visually dominated by animals and plants, but this world would not have been possible without fungi, say University of Leeds scientists.