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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.

The late summer sun sets over mountains and icebergs around Adelaide Island, Antarctic Peninsula, as twenty-four hour daylight gives way to the long polar night of winter

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.

Professor Griselda Pollock, winner of the 2020 Holberg Prize

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.

The image shows someone standing on a set of weighing scales. You can only see them from their knees down.

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.

Cape buffalo at the Nuwejaars Wetlands, South Africa

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.