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Tolkien: "Sales are not very great"

Published
Tuesday 16th October, 2012
Categories
Arts & Culture

J.R.R. Tolkien changed some of the language in The Hobbit and referred to sales being slow in a letter to a fellow author, held in Leeds' archives.

Superbugs ride air currents around hospital wards

Published
Thursday 11th October, 2012
Categories
Health

Hospital superbugs can float on air currents and contaminate surfaces far from infected patients' beds, according to University of Leeds researchers.

Large water reservoirs at the dawn of stellar birth

Published
Tuesday 9th October, 2012
Categories
Environment
Science

Scientists from the University of Leeds have discovered enough water vapour to fill Earth's oceans more than 2000 times over in a gas and dust cloud which is about to collapse into a Sun-like star.

Director GCHQ honours Turing

Published
Thursday 4th October, 2012
Categories
Science
University

Iain Lobban, Director GCHQ and Leeds graduate, has paid tribute to cryptanalyst and mathematician Alan Turing in a public lecture at the University.

University celebrates J.R.R.Tolkien

Published
Monday 1st October, 2012
Categories
Arts & Culture

A blue plaque to honour the life of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings creator J.R.R. Tolkien has been unveiled today at the writer's former home in Leeds.

Tree rings go with the flow of the Amazon

Published
Monday 1st October, 2012
Categories
Environment

University of Leeds-led research has used tree rings from eight cedar trees in Bolivia to unlock a 100-year history of rainfall across the Amazon basin, that contains the world's largest river system.

Leeds reaches new heights

Published
Friday 28th September, 2012
Categories
University

90% of Leeds students rate their course as intellectually stimulating, according to the 2012 National Student Survey. Leeds' student union was ranked as one of the country's best.

China and the West

Published
Tuesday 18th September, 2012
Categories
Business & Economy

China's investment in the European Union is rising but remains a tiny fraction of the country's overseas investments, according to research from Leeds University Business School.