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'Often and early' gives children a taste for vegetables

Published
Friday 30th May, 2014
Categories
Society & Politics
Health

Exposing infants to a new vegetable early in life encourages them to eat more of it compared to offering novel vegetables to older children, new research from the University of Leeds suggests.

Big data to help blood cancer patients

Published
Tuesday 20th May, 2014
Categories
Health

A pioneering database at the University of Leeds will help match patients with certain types of blood cancers to the best treatments.

Clock ticks down to Tour de France start

Published
Tuesday 20th May, 2014
Categories
University
Science

The final countdown to the Tour de France is truly under way in Leeds after the unveiling of the official countdown clock at Trinity Leeds shopping centre.

Antarctica's ice losses on the rise

Published
Monday 19th May, 2014
Categories
Environment

Three years of observations show that the Antarctic ice sheet is now losing 159 billion tonnes of ice each year - twice as much as when it was last surveyed.

Clouds: bright and with a fresh pine scent

Published
Friday 16th May, 2014
Categories
Environment

A new study has shed light on the first step of cloud formation, revealing that organic oxides - such as the molecule responsible for giving pine forests their smell - are a vital ingredient.

Nearly 40,000 hospital bug cases missed each year

Published
Thursday 15th May, 2014
Categories
Health

More than 39,000 cases of the hospital bug Clostridium difficile are missed in Europe each year because of a lack of clinical suspicion or inadequate lab testing, a Europe-wide study led by University of Leeds experts has found.

Super-charged tropical trees

Published
Friday 9th May, 2014
Categories
Science
Environment

A team of scientists has found that Borneo's productive trees are vitally important for global carbon cycling.

Leeds professor elected to Royal Society

Published
Thursday 1st May, 2014
Categories
University

Sheena Radford, Astbury Professor of Biophysics at the University of Leeds, has been made a fellow of the Royal Society.