449 results for 'advanced materials'
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- 15 February 2016
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- Science
The family tree of the largest group of mammals—those that nourish their young with placentas—divided later than scientists previously thought, according to a new study.
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- 10 February 2016
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- News | Health
A new test could help patients with advanced bowel cancer get the best treatment for their disease.
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- 11 January 2016
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- Environment | Science
An international team of scientists has shed new light on the earthquake that devastated Nepal in April 2015, killing more than 8,000 people.
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- 8 January 2016
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Three of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities have joined forces to set up a new open access digital platform to publish scholarly articles across the academic disciplines.
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- 30 October 2015
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- Business & Economy | Technology | University
The University of Leeds and China's Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) have launched a joint school to deliver world-class teaching and research.
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- 29 October 2015
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Observations led by astronomers at the University of Leeds have shown for the first time that a massive star, 25 times the mass of the Sun, is forming in a similar way to low-mass stars.
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- 23 October 2015
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- Working with business | Arts & Culture
Art student turned inventor and engineer Sir James Dyson has opened a new art exhibition at the University.
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- 21 October 2015
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- Health | Society & Politics
New research from the University of Leeds has revealed that some people are losing more than 15 day’s worth of sleep a year.
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- 16 October 2015
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- Society & Politics | Business & Economy | Technology
The University of Leeds is leading a pioneering £4.2m national infrastructure research project with the vision of creating self-repairing cities.
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- 12 October 2015
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- Science
Researchers have imaged in unprecedented detail the three-dimensional structure of supercoiled DNA, revealing that its shape is much more dynamic than the well-known double helix.
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- 24 September 2015
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- Arts & Culture
A century after an execution that shocked Britain and her allies, a relative of the nurse shot by firing squad is to talk at rare screening of a film about her story.
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- 14 September 2015
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- Science
Astronomers have successfully peered through the ‘amniotic sac’ of a star that is still forming to observe the innermost region of a burgeoning solar system for the first time.
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- 11 September 2015
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The team responsible for high-tech learning at the University of Leeds has received recognition in the form of the Association for Learning Technology’s Learning Technologist of the Year award.
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- 9 September 2015
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- Environment
Researchers have shown for the first time that phytoplankton (plant life) in remote ocean regions can contribute to rare airborne particles that trigger ice formation in clouds.
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- 14 August 2015
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- Society & Politics
The suffering of prisoners of war and slave labourers forced to build the Thailand-Burma “Death” Railway amid appalling conditions was immortalised in The Bridge Over the River Kwai.