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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.

Stock visualisation of a blood clot.

Developing the next generation of anticoagulant

Published
5 December 2019
Categories
Working with business | Science

A University of Leeds spin-out company has secured £3.14m to develop a next generation drug that aims to prevent blood clots forming, without the risk of bleeding present in currently available drugs.

A large digger on top of a huge quantity of landfill, by Alan Levine, pxhere.com

Most Black Friday purchases soon end up as waste

Published
29 November 2019
Categories
Business & Economy | Society & Politics

The retail bonanza set to begin today, Black Friday, is expected to see more than half of shoppers buying electronic goods and almost a third purchasing clothes.

pigs walking through a farm gate in a field

University opens National Pig Centre in Yorkshire

Published
28 November 2019
Categories
Science | Working with business

Precision nutrition and 24-hour monitoring will enable scientists to provide new insights for the pig industry, as the University of Leeds opens the National Pig Centre today.

A microscope image of brain tumour cells shows lots of small pink moving blobs on a back background.

Unpredictable evolution in brain tumours

Published
21 November 2019
Categories
Science | Health

When brain tumours are treated with radiation or chemotherapy their cells evolve in a way that appears to be random, according to research published today in Nature.

Two teenage girls sit eating breakfast at school in Leeds, wearing smart black blazers with purple ties.

Skipping breakfast linked to lower GCSE grades

Published
20 November 2019
Categories
Health

Students who rarely ate breakfast on school days achieved lower GCSE grades than those who ate breakfast frequently, according to a new study in Yorkshire.