1766 results for 'press statements'
- Published
- 31 January 2018
- Categories
- Environment | Arts & Culture
Chris Packham's book Fingers in the Sparkle Jar has been voted the UK’s favourite piece of nature writing in an online poll organised as part of a research project led by the University of Leeds.
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- 31 January 2018
- Categories
- Science | Health
Terminally-ill patients experience significantly better quality of life before they die if they receive earlier access to palliative care, according to new research.
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- 23 January 2018
- Categories
- 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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- 11 January 2018
- Categories
- Science | Environment
Deforestation is likely to warm the climate even more than originally thought, scientists warn.
- Published
- 11 January 2018
- Categories
- Global | University
International students in Leeds contribute a net £390m to the UK economy, a new study has found.
- Published
- 9 January 2018
- Categories
- Working with business | University
Senior regional business leaders visited the University this week to find out how Nexus, its new gateway to world-leading research expertise and infrastructure, will boost economic growth.
- Published
- 9 January 2018
- Categories
- Technology | Science
The complex and mysterious mechanisms that drive communication and reactions within human cells could be on the verge of being unravelled, due to a pioneering new technique.
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- 8 January 2018
- Categories
- 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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- 3 January 2018
- Categories
- Science | Health
A virus injected directly into the bloodstream could be used to treat people with aggressive brain tumours, a major new study reports.
- Published
- 2 January 2018
- Categories
- Global | Environment
A new partnership agreement has been signed with Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), aimed at strengthening future research collaborations with the University of Leeds.
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- 21 December 2017
- Categories
- Science | Health
Scientists are using imaging techniques usually used to map the brain to try and understand why some pregnant women miscarry or go into early labour.
- Published
- 19 December 2017
- Categories
- Environment | News
The remaining undisturbed rainforests in Borneo, some of the world’s tallest and most carbon-dense, have been removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere over the past 50 years, a new study shows.
- Published
- 18 December 2017
- Categories
- Science | Environment
River invertebrates react the same way to decreasing glacier cover wherever in the world they are, according to new University research.
- Published
- 15 December 2017
- Categories
- 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.
- Published
- 15 December 2017
- Categories
- Environment
Leeds researchers are supporting a business' £1m project to develop new graphene-based water filters, to bring the technology closer to addressing world-wide water scarcity.