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Heavily crevassed outlet glacier in Western Palmer Land, Antarctica. Credit: Andrew Shepherd, University of Leeds

Satellites track vanishing Antarctic ice

Published
Thursday 14th June, 2018
Categories
Global
Environment

Monitoring Antarctica from space has revealed how its ice is being lost to the oceans, providing crucial insight into the continent’s response to a warming climate.

Picture shows human cancer cells which had been cultured in the laboratory

Virus could help treat advanced cancers

Published
Monday 11th June, 2018
Categories
Science
Health

Early results from a small-scale clinical trial have revealed the potential of a virus to treat some advanced cancers.

Caring hands

Unequal access to hospice care across England

Published
Thursday 7th June, 2018
Categories
Health

Adults with incurable diseases – including dementia, liver failure and stroke – are not being referred to palliative care from hospices early enough during their illness, according to new research.

Leeds is key partner in Rosalind Franklin Institute

Published
Wednesday 6th June, 2018
Categories
Health

A £103 million revolution to develop new technologies which will drive forward biology and medicine research and development has been officially launched today.

Green tea

Green tea molecule could prevent heart attacks

Published
Monday 4th June, 2018
Categories
Science
Health

A molecular compound in green tea could hold the key to preventing deaths from heart attacks and strokes caused by atherosclerosis, according to new research.

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Blackcurrants could help end bad (for the planet) hair days

Published
Wednesday 30th May, 2018
Categories
Environment
Science

Natural dyes extracted from blackcurrant waste created during Ribena manufacture have for the first time been used in an effective new hair dyeing technology, developed at the University of Leeds.

Chew Reservoir, fed by blanket peat moorland, Peak District, northern England

Peatland contributions to UK water security

Published
Tuesday 15th May, 2018
Categories
Science
Environment

Peatlands are vital to UK water security and must be protected to preserve the UK’s water supply, warn scientists.