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Will driverless cars increase reliance on roads?

Published
Friday 26th February, 2016
Categories
Technology

Researchers warn that driverless vehicles could intensify car use, reducing or even eliminating promised energy savings and environmental benefits.

Dr Darren Treanor shows a LVM slide on a Powerwall

Sale of virtual microscope technology

Published
Tuesday 23rd February, 2016
Categories
Working with business
Technology
Health

The healthcare company Roche has acquired the intellectual property and technology of the Leeds Virtual Microscope (LVM), an innovative system designed to help pathologists making cancer diagnoses.

Sloth

Sloths’ ancestors may have crossed Atlantic

Published
Monday 15th February, 2016
Categories
Science

The family tree of the largest group of mammals—those that nourish their young with placentas—divided later than scientists previously thought, according to a new study.

The Ebola virus

Researchers to use supercomputer to 'hack' Ebola

Published
Thursday 11th February, 2016
Categories
Science
Health

Scientists at the University of Leeds will run the equivalent of password cracking software to find the chemical keys to defeating the Ebola virus.

Business, meeting

The benefits of worker co-operatives

Published
Wednesday 10th February, 2016
Categories
Business & Economy
Society & Politics

New research has identified the benefits of taking things into your own hands and starting a worker co-operative.

(From left-right) Jim Sharp (Met Office), Dr Ryan Neely (NCAS/University of Leeds), Dr Lindsay Bennett (NCAS/University of Leeds), Michael Cranston (SEPA) in front of the NCAS X-band Radar.

Improving rainfall and flooding predictions

Published
Friday 5th February, 2016
Categories
Environment
Science

The University of Leeds is a partner in a new research project to improve our understanding of rainfall and flood predictions in Scotland.