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Prize challenge to artists and scientists

Published
Wednesday 11th December, 2019
Categories
Science
Arts & Culture

Challenging artists and scientists to collaborate on new approaches to the creative process, the £15,000 DARE Art Prize is open for applications.

DARE Art Prize winner Anna Ridler, drawing with sound

Greenland losing ice 'faster than expected'

Published
Tuesday 10th December, 2019
Categories
Science
Environment

Greenland is losing ice faster than in the 1990s and is tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s high-end climate scenario.

A Greenland melt stream - deeply incised melt channel that transports the overflow from a large melt lake to a Moulin.

Breathing new life into Earth's oxygen debate

Published
Tuesday 10th December, 2019
Categories
Science
Environment

New research strongly suggests the distinct "oxygenation events" which created Earth’s breathable atmosphere happened spontaneously, rather than as a consequence of biological or tectonic revolutions.

A shot of the Earth taken from orbit. December 2019

Leeds research could revolutionise vaccine development

Published
Friday 6th December, 2019
Categories
Science
Health

Research which has identified a way of making a safer and cheaper polio vaccine is to be scaled-up – to see if it could be used in commercial vaccine production.

The image shows an electron microscope picture of the polio virus

Developing the next generation of anticoagulant

Published
Thursday 5th December, 2019
Categories
Working with business
Science

A University of Leeds spin-out company has secured £3.14m to develop a next generation drug that aims to prevent blood clots forming, without the risk of bleeding present in currently available drugs.

Stock visualisation of a blood clot.

Most Black Friday purchases soon end up as waste

Published
Friday 29th November, 2019
Categories
Business & Economy
Society & Politics

The retail bonanza set to begin today, Black Friday, is expected to see more than half of shoppers buying electronic goods and almost a third purchasing clothes.

A large digger on top of a huge quantity of landfill, by Alan Levine, pxhere.com

University opens National Pig Centre in Yorkshire

Published
Thursday 28th November, 2019
Categories
Science
Working with business

Precision nutrition and 24-hour monitoring will enable scientists to provide new insights for the pig industry, as the University of Leeds opens the National Pig Centre today.

pigs walking through a farm gate in a field