CLOUD gives clarity on climate change
University of Leeds experts have helped scientists get a step closer to understanding how aerosol particles are formed in the atmosphere and the effect these particles have on our climate.
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Breast cancer research gaps risking lives
University of Leeds academics have leant their expertise to an analysis identifying the ten critical gaps that exist in breast cancer research, which, if not urgently addressed, could see the loss of about 185,000 lives by 2030.
New trial to bring hope for people with arthritis
University of Leeds researchers are to carry out a major new clinical trial that could bring relief to the six million people in the UK with the potentially crippling condition of osteoarthritis of the knee.
Restricting antibiotics could be key to fighting "superbug"
New ways are needed to fight the infection Clostridium difficile and better use of antibiotics could be key, according to the authors of ground-breaking research.
Minister learns about collaboration between academia and industry
Innovative partnerships between the University of Leeds and key medical technologies companies were highlighted at ministerial level.
Musicians miss the point interpreting classics - the 'jazz of their age'
Musicians have spent almost a century misinterpreting the scores of the Classical and Romantic period in ways that would have astonished and probably horrified its most famous composers.
University of Leeds in the vanguard of new online courses
A free course launched by the University of Leeds forms the first wave of a new approach to online learning.
New insights solve 300-year-old problem: the dynamics of the Earth's core
Scientists at the University of Leeds have solved a 300-year-old riddle about which direction the centre of the Earth spins.
Children's intensive care units admit more children but mortality at all-time low
Death rates in children's intensive care units are at an all-time low despite higher numbers of admissions, new research published by the University of Leeds and the University of Leicester shows.
First class 'entrepreneurs' to improve fundraising for the arts
DARE, the unique partnership between Opera North and the University of Leeds, has announced the appointment of the first new Fellowships to improve fundraising for the arts.