Posts Tagged ‘University of Leeds’
Kids aren’t kind to chubby cartoons
U. LEEDS (UK) — Very young children appear to reject storybook characters who are overweight as potential friends, a study shows. Continue…
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 11:55 - 3 Comments
Health & Medicine - May 9, 2013 14:54 - 1 Comment
Kids admitted to ICU on weekends as likely to survive
U. LEEDS (UK) — Children in the UK who are admitted to intensive care units after hours face no greater risk of dying than children arriving during normal working hours, experts say. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Apr 17, 2013 4:48 - 0 Comments
Saving energy could raise infection risks
U. LEEDS (UK) — The chance of infection in some hospital wards varies dramatically according to whether the windows are left open or not, researchers find. (more…)
Science & Technology - Apr 10, 2013 11:43 - 0 Comments
Soil mites rescued by rapid evolution
U. LEEDS (UK) — A recent study involving soil mites overturns the common assumption that evolution only occurs gradually over hundreds or thousands of years. (more…)
Science & Technology - Apr 4, 2013 10:14 - 4 Comments
Did phosphorous from space spark life on Earth?
U. LEEDS (UK) — Experiments suggest that unusual phosphorus chemicals from meteorites could have given power to Earth’s “primordial soup.” (more…)
Health & Medicine - Apr 2, 2013 10:05 - 0 Comments
Dietary fiber cuts risk of first stroke
U. LEEDS (UK) — Just seven grams more dietary fiber each day can lower the risk of first-time stroke by seven percent, according to new research. (more…)
Top Stories - Mar 15, 2013 9:43 - 3 Comments
Gender gaps linger in reading and math
U. LEEDS (UK) / U. MISSOURI (US) — Twice as many boys are in the world’s top one percent of math students, but girls outdo boys in reading by an even larger margin. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Mar 14, 2013 10:27 - 4 Comments
Bumble bee loss threatens food security
RUTGERS (US) — Wild pollinators are just as important, and often more efficient, at pollinating crops than domestic honey bee colonies, but bumble bee colonies are vanishing. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Mar 6, 2013 7:12 - 1 Comment
Basic physics may speed up climate modeling
BROWN / U. LEEDS (US) — A new approach that uses basic physics to simulate key elements of climate change may be more effective than methods that “follow every little swirl of water or air,” researchers say. (more…)
Top Stories - Mar 4, 2013 9:12 - 0 Comments
Obesity gene linked to skin cancer risk
U. LEEDS (UK) — The gene most strongly associated with obesity may also increase the risk of malignant melanoma—the most deadly skin cancer. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 28, 2013 10:03 - 1 Comment
Liquid keeps computer servers cool and quiet
U. LEEDS (UK) — Researchers are testing a liquid-cooled computer server that could reduce energy used for cooling by as much as 97 percent, experts calculate. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 21, 2013 17:06 - 0 Comments
3D model changes fetal heart ‘timeline’
U. SHEFFIELD / U. LEEDS (UK) — Compared to those of other mammals, human hearts are disorganized jumbles of tissue until relatively late in pregnancy, new research shows. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 6, 2013 12:11 - 0 Comments
Tea, wine extracts disable Alzheimer’s ‘clumps’
U. LEEDS (UK) — Chemicals from green tea and red wine may disrupt a key step in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, a new study shows. (more…)
Society & Culture - Feb 4, 2013 15:45 - 0 Comments
Push to be perfect burns out young athletes
U. LEEDS (UK) — Young athletes who feel they must be perfect to please others are vulnerable to burnout, according to a study of junior footballers in the UK. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jan 25, 2013 10:32 - 0 Comments
Bat dad devotion depends on the roost
U. LEEDS (UK) — Male bats range from devoted fathers to independent bachelors along a 50 km stretch of the River Wharfe in Yorkshire, England. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jan 22, 2013 11:40 - 1 Comment
Hot days threaten corn crop yields
U. LEEDS (UK) — Fertilizers and improved irrigation have increased corn production, but soaring temperatures could soon offset those recent gains. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jan 16, 2013 11:32 - 15 Comments
Soot is heating up the planet, experts warn
U. LEEDS (UK) — Soot’s role in global warming may be underestimated, but a major effort in reduction could potentially gain us a few decades of relief. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Nov 30, 2012 12:02 - 2 Comments
At both poles, ice melt is speeding up
U. LEEDS (UK) / CALTECH (US) — Ice sheet melting has increased over time and, altogether, Greenland and Antarctica are now losing more than three times as much ice as they were in the 1990s. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 7, 2012 11:37 - 2 Comments
Breast cancer drug may thwart other tumors
U. LEEDS (UK) — A drug commonly used to treat breast cancer could offer a new way to prevent other cancers from spreading throughout the body. (more…)
