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COVID-19: the long road to recovery

Published
Friday 7th August, 2020
Categories
Society & Politics
Science
Health
Coronavirus

Researchers have identified a pattern of longer-term symptoms likely to be experienced by people who were hospitalised with COVID-19.

The image shows a woman, head in hands, wearing a face mask

COVID-19 recovery choices shape future climate

Published
Friday 7th August, 2020
Categories
Environment
Coronavirus

A post-lockdown economic recovery plan that incorporates and emphasises climate-friendly choices could help significantly in the battle against global warming, according to a new study.

A person on a railway platform holding a mobile phone and luggage next to a moving train

Success for Leeds in National Teaching Fellowships

Published
Thursday 6th August, 2020
Categories
University

Paul Taylor, Professor of Chemical Education at Leeds, has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship, it was announced today by Advance HE.

Professor Paul Taylor, School of Chemistry

Probing the properties of magnetic quasi-particles

Published
Thursday 30th July, 2020
Categories
Science
Technology

Researchers have for the first time measured a fundamental property of magnets called magnon polarisation — and in the process, are making progress towards building low-energy devices.

The image shows an artist's impression of partcile activity in matter. It is a graphical representation of a sine wave.

Lockdown in China saw only a modest drop air pollution

Published
Tuesday 28th July, 2020
Categories
Environment
Global

The two pollutants most harmful to human health, PM2.5 and Ozone, were only slightly reduced or barely affected during the lockdown in China, according to a new study.

Zhengzhou, China air pollution