Published 16 March 2020 Categories Science | Environment A new study has found extreme disparity in the use of energy among richer and poorer people - both within countries and between them.
Published 11 March 2020 Categories Global | Environment Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice faster than in the 1990s and are both tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change鈥檚 worst-case climate warming scenario.
Published 9 March 2020 Categories Science | Health A master control region of a protein linked to Parkinson鈥檚 disease has been identified for the first time.
Published 6 March 2020 Categories Science | Technology Scientists working at the frontier of nanotechnology face huge challenges.
Published 5 March 2020 Categories Global | Arts & Culture Griselda Pollock, Leeds' Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art, was announced this morning as the recipient of this year鈥檚 Holberg Prize.
Published 4 March 2020 Categories Society & Politics | Health The NHS needs to do more to address the ingrained stigma and discrimination faced by people with obesity, a leading health psychologist says.
Published 4 March 2020 Categories Science | Environment The ability of the world鈥檚 tropical forests to remove carbon from the atmosphere is decreasing, according to a study tracking 300,000 trees over 30 years, published today in Nature.
Published 27 February 2020 Categories Science | Health A common type of bacteria found in our guts could contribute to bowel cancer, according to new research.
Published 26 February 2020 Categories Global | Environment Extinction risk could decrease by more than 50% if at least 30% of land were to be conserved across the tropics, a new study reveals.
Published 26 February 2020 Categories University | Arts & Culture Poet Laureate and Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage has today announced ambitious plans for a National Poetry Centre in Leeds.
Published 25 February 2020 Categories Technology | Science Cameras shooting up to 25,000 frames a second have been used to capture the moment two droplets of liquid come together, opening up research into new applications for 3D printing.
Published 21 February 2020 Categories News Engineering leaders from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) visited the University this week to find out more about the breadth of engineering research taking place here.
Published 20 February 2020 Categories Science | Technology Engineers have developed a robot that has successfully navigated one of the narrow shafts of the Great Pyramid - in an attempt to solve one of the big mysteries in Egyptian archaeology.
Published 17 February 2020 Categories Technology | Science | Technology | Science The University is to be part of two supercomputing centres - to boost the ability of researchers to make major scientific breaththroughs.
Published 14 February 2020 Categories Health Senior leaders from the Medical Research Council (MRC) visited the University today to find out more about the interdisciplinary health research taking place here.