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A student wearing a virtual reality headset, interacting with Stacey the virtual patient, who is sitting on a chair with her baby next to her in a baby carrier

Virtual patient teaches real-life mental health skills

Published
Monday 3rd April, 2023
Categories
Technology
Health

Extended-reality assisted clinical training in perinatal mental health has been launched by Health Education England in collaboration with the University of Leeds.

Illustration of a deepfake being made - a woman's face is shown being swapped with another face.

Deepfakes: has the camera always lied?

Published
Friday 31st March, 2023
Categories
Arts & Culture
Technology
Society & Politics
Research

Fake footage is a centuries-old problem that began long before digital technology, according to a Leeds academic.

Kimberly Campanello performs poetry to an audience with a red backdrop (left) and looks at the camera for a portrait shot (right).

Poet speaks out about young onset Parkinson’s

Published
Friday 31st March, 2023
Categories
Health
Arts & Culture

A moving poem about living with young onset Parkinson's has been penned by an academic at the University of Leeds to mark World Parkinson’s Day.

A machine with eight syringes containing coloured fluid which is being piped into testing trays

Preventing cancer relapse with a genetic test

Published
Thursday 23rd March, 2023
Categories
Science
Health

Scientists have found a new way to predict which myeloma patients will benefit the most from a treatment often used to help keep the blood cancer from coming back after a stem cell transplant.

Forecasters looking at weather maps on a computer screen.

Alerting vulnerable communities to extreme weather

Published
Thursday 23rd March, 2023
Categories
Technology
Environment
Science

Scientists have been awarded £2 million to develop ways of alerting communities in South Africa, Zambia and Mozambique to extreme weather.

female student studying online sat in front of a laptop

University of Leeds launches fully-online MSc

Published
Wednesday 22nd March, 2023
Categories
Science
University

Students around the globe will be able to experience world-class expertise from the University of Leeds - as it launches a new fully-online course.

Expanse of snow and ice on the Amunden Sea Embayment ice shelf

Billions of tonnes of ice lost from Antarctic Ice sheet

Published
Monday 20th March, 2023
Categories
Global
Science
Environment

Scientists have calculated that the fastest changing Antarctic region - the Amundsen Sea Embayment - has lost more than 3,000 billion tonnes of ice over a 25-year period.   

Graphic shows the Earth as seen from space. Half of the graphic shows the surfaces of the world - the other half of the graphic shows the hot processes that happen deep in the Earth's core.

Activity deep in Earth affects the global magnetic field

Published
Thursday 16th March, 2023
Categories
Environment
Science

Compass readings that do not show the direction of true north and interference with the operations of satellites are a few of the problems caused by peculiarities of the Earth’s magnetic field.