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Quicker and cooler is best for clothes

Published
14 January 2020
Categories
Environment | Science

Groundbreaking research into the impact washing machines have on clothes and the environment shows that shorter, cooler washes help clothes look better for longer and release fewer microfibres.

Cancer Research UK leaders and University of Leeds cancer scientists stand in a group of 25 looking up at camera

Cancer Research UK delegation visits Leeds

Published
10 January 2020
Categories
University | Health

Senior leaders from Cancer Research UK visited the University today to find out how Leeds researchers are working together in the battle against the disease.

A combine harvester gathers wheat in a field.

Driving debate on UK agricultural trade policy

Published
8 January 2020
Categories
Working with business | Business & Economy

Politicians and stakeholders from the farming sector will today hear from a leading Leeds professor on the future of trade regulation and how Brexit will impact future UK agricultural policy.

Child eating yogurt at dining room table

Sweet success – sugar levels drop in UK yogurts

Published
8 January 2020
Categories
Health

A survey of yogurt ingredients show that sugar levels have significantly decreased in the last two years, but concerns about overall nutritional content remain.

Image is a graphical representation of how the solar system formed. It shows a planet surrounded by rings of gas and dust.

Deaf people at risk of being 'excluded from astronomy'

Published
23 December 2019
Categories
Society & Politics | Science

The deaf community risks being excluded from aspects of modern science because the number of new advances is outpacing the development of sign language to explain them, a leading researcher says.

Three people working as a team around a table

There is no ‘I’ in team – or is there?

Published
18 December 2019
Categories
News | Business & Economy

There is no ‘I’ in team - as the saying goes. But new research suggests it is important for individuals to feel personal ownership towards a team project in order to be more creative.

The image shows five people who are working for the University of Leeds spinout company, Slingshot Communications.

Using ‘synthetic worlds’ to boost business efficiency

Published
17 December 2019
Categories
Working with business | Technology | News

A spin-out company that uses advanced computer simulation to help organisations devise more efficient ways of working, has secured £750,000 in scale-up funding.

DARE Art Prize winner Anna Ridler, drawing with sound

Prize challenge to artists and scientists

Published
11 December 2019
Categories
Science | Arts & Culture

Challenging artists and scientists to collaborate on new approaches to the creative process, the £15,000 DARE Art Prize is open for applications.

A Greenland melt stream - deeply incised melt channel that transports the overflow from a large melt lake to a Moulin.

Greenland losing ice 'faster than expected'

Published
10 December 2019
Categories
Science | Environment

Greenland is losing ice faster than in the 1990s and is tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s high-end climate scenario.

A shot of the Earth taken from orbit. December 2019

Breathing new life into Earth's oxygen debate

Published
10 December 2019
Categories
Science | Environment

New research strongly suggests the distinct "oxygenation events" which created Earth’s breathable atmosphere happened spontaneously, rather than as a consequence of biological or tectonic revolutions.