Research and innovation News

A thunderstorm above a Ghanian town.

Enhancing weather warnings in Ghana 

Published
Wednesday 23rd April, 2025
Categories
Environment
Global

The University of Leeds is collaborating with institutions in Ghana to combat climate challenges and nurture the next generation of scientists. 

A group of schoolchildren from Wakefield comb a mocked up crime scene on the University of Leeds campus to learn about what forensics officers look for.

Junior detectives investigate crime scene

Published
Monday 7th April, 2025
Categories
Working with our region

Schoolchildren investigated a mocked-up ‘crime scene’ on the University of Leeds campus as part of a knife crime reduction campaign.

Zoomed in view of mini robot with plastic nodule cut across showing microchip and protruding wires

Mini rolling robot takes virtual biopsies

Published
Thursday 27th March, 2025
Categories
News
Research

A tiny magnetic robot which can take 3D scans from deep within the body and could revolutionise early cancer detection, has been developed by researchers.