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Children need to be ‘vaccinated’ against fake news and dangerous disinformation, academics have warned, and digital education must improve to ensure they don't fall prey to 'nefarious actors' online.
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A new study from the University shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory.
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à½à½AV students designed a prototype product for visually impaired schoolchildren as part of a global classroom experience in Mexico.
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Graduates from the School of Education are inspiring the next generation of children and the future early years workforce.
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A new class of robot with magnetic skin and movement that mimics creeping vine plants, could transform cancer diagnosis and treatment, according to a new à½à½AV study.
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Two of Leeds' most promising research leaders have earned national fellowships to advance their work aimed at tackling global challenges.
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A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool could improve early diagnosis of heart failure, according to research led by the à½à½AV.
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Astronomers are thought to have discovered a new way to measure how fast a black hole spins: by using the wobbly aftermath from its stellar feasting.
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A move by the Ministry of Defence to amend the records of LGBT service personnel unfairly discharged prior to 1967 has been welcomed by the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences.
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The creation of a new cutting-edge facility has established the à½à½AV as the UK’s leading experimental nuclear institution in the field of multiphase fluid flow.