Published 9 August 2021 Categories Global | Technology | Environment Attitudes to earthen homes need to change to prevent millions of them being replaced by buildings made from more environmentally-damaging materials, scientists warn. 
Published 9 August 2021 Categories Technology | Working with business | Science A new synthetic material that accelerates the removal of harmful nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide from engine fumes is to be tested in a prototype catalytic converter.
Published 5 August 2021 Categories University Academics at the University have been recognised with a National Teaching Fellowship and Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence.Â
Published 5 August 2021 Categories Global | Business & Economy | Environment Research into global climate models by leading international academics shows that current economic policies are in danger of leading nations away from emission and global warming targets.
Published 3 August 2021 Categories University | Arts & Culture A Leeds student has won a national competition to design the emblem for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.
Published 3 August 2021 Categories Health A major UK trial of cannabis-based drug Sativex in treating the most aggressive form of brain tumour is to launch at 15 NHS hospitals, following promising results from a phase I study in 27 patients.
Published 2 August 2021 Categories Alumni Claire Cashmore MBE (Linguistics and Phonetics, 2011; Hon LLD, 2013) goes into her fifth Paralympic Games facing a whole new challenge.
Published 26 July 2021 Categories Health | Science Scientists at Leeds and Cambridge have successfully reversed age-related memory loss in mice and say their discovery could lead to the development of treatments to prevent memory loss in people.
Published 23 July 2021 Categories Arts & Culture | News Three Leeds academics have been elected to British Academy Fellowships, and Simon Armitage - Poet Laureate and Professor of Poetry - has been elected an Honorary Fellow.
Published 22 July 2021 Categories Health | Environment A West Yorkshire city’s ambitious plans to tackle the effects of climate change are being supported by three à½à½AV students.
Published 22 July 2021 Categories Health Eight new fellowships designed to promote equality, diversity and inclusion in science have been awarded at Leeds, thanks to an historical endowment established alongside the British Heart Foundation.
Published 21 July 2021 Categories Society & Politics A new survey carried out by academics specialising in British politics from universities across the UK has rated Sir Keir Starmer as a better post-war Leader of the Opposition than Jeremy Corbyn.
Published 18 July 2021 Categories Coronavirus | Health A major £3.4 million research project has launched to identify the best way to treat and support the one million people in the UK now living with long COVID.
Published 16 July 2021 Categories Coronavirus | Health | Science Improving ventilation in workplaces and on public transport and fears of NHS overload during the COVID-19 pandemic have been highlighted in two new research reports.
Published 15 July 2021 Categories Environment | Science Researchers are asking everybody across the UK to help survey one of the most amazing phenomena in the insect world – when millions of ants take to the air for their nuptial flight.