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Researchers from the University of Leeds have shown that an alternative method of industrial cleaning, using diluted acid and super-heated steam, can be used safely on the ancient stonework. The results of the study are now helping a Leeds-based SME to convince sceptical clients of the merits of sand-free cleaning.

A letter published in Nature on 27 January explains how increased melting in warmer years causes the internal drainage system of the ice sheet to 'adapt' and accommodate more melt-water, without speeding up the flow of ice toward the oceans.

By pin-pointing the reaction that kick-starts the formation of amyloid fibres, scientists can now seek to further understand how these fibrils develop and cause disease. Amyloid fibres, which are implicated in a wide range of diseases, form when proteins misfold and stick together in long, rope-like structures.

Under the proposed scheme coal would be burned underground to generate energy, offering a new lease of life to coal seams that are too expensive to mine.

The team will be heading to part of the coldest, windiest, highest and driest continent on Earth to hunt for clues that will tell us more about how the glaciers and ice sheets of the north-eastern Antarctic Peninsula behaved in past climates and what we can expect in the future.

Many UK power stations are now burning plant matter, or biomass, as well as coal in a bid to cut their carbon footprint.

Read more news Published Wednesday 22nd December 10 The consultation regarding changes to the USS pension scheme finishes today, 22 December 2010.

Around 50,000 people in the UK are currently taking lithium. When used appropriately, lithium can be a good way to prevent mood swings caused by bipolar disorder, combating mania, or treating severe and recurring bouts of depression.

The project has been awarded $500,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, through the World Health Organisation, and aims to be effective against all polio subtypes.

The colours run, leaving both your black top and your white shirt looking different shades of grey. But now scientists at the University of Leeds have invented a revolutionary way of permanently colouring the molecules of fabric fibres, meaning that the colours never run and clothes never fade.

Professor J Anthony Child and Professor Walter M Gregory (Clinical Trials Research Unit (CTRU), University of Leeds), Professor Gareth J Morgan (formerly at the University of Leeds), together with colleagues from universities and NHS Trusts across the UK, compared two different types of bisphosphonate drug in patients with multiple myeloma.

Read more news Published Friday 3rd December 10 Claims that the University has switched off the heating by occupiers of the Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre are untrue, as are claims about setting off fire alarms.

PC-based virtual reality training is typically cheaper than face-to-face sessions with a mentor or coach.

The plaque, which has generously been sponsored by the Thackray Museum, will be unveiled today on Astbury's former Headingley home, in the presence of his family and representatives of Leeds Civic Trust, the Thackray Museum and the University of Leeds.

The £1.5 million STEP-CHANGE project, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), aims to inform a 'step-change' in attitudes to urban transport by revolutionising the planning of towns and cities.

The exhibition presents Beardsley's black and white fantasy world - at once wondrous, monstrous, and exotic - in context, celebrating the richness and variety of the medium of book illustration in Britain, during the vibrant period between 1890 and the 1920s.

The university's achievements will be celebrated with the launch of a new publication highlighting ten of the ways its projects have had a lasting positive impact on the world and in particular, on the issue of sustainability.

The university's achievements will be celebrated with the launch of a new publication highlighting ten of the ways its projects have had a lasting positive impact on the world and in particular, on the issue of sustainability.

Ouruplands.co.uk , which launches today, will tell the story of the UK uplands and give people who live and work there a unique platform to express their views.