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UK research university in Leeds, England, with faculties spanning science, medicine, engineering and food science that conduct wide-ranging public research.
Researchers mapping Nepal's mountain rivers count about 294,000 people living in flood-prone valleys below the Himalayas, and say the number is still rising. Roughly 108,000 of them are downstream of glacial lakes that can breach and flush water down the valleys all at once.
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Manchester-led researchers say heat treatment split a lead-free bismuth ferrite-barium titanate ceramic into nanoregions that lift its Curie point to 824 C. It brings thin-film interface effects into bulk ceramic, but working temperatures and lifetimes for sensors have not been reported.
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Zhejiang and Leeds physicists report in Nature Physics a feedback loop that steered 24 qubits from irregular motion into a repeating pattern. The loop finds that regular motion without being told what it looks like. That makes the quantum processor part of the search for order inside chaos.
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University of Liverpool researchers found diet drinks did as well as water over two years of weight management in a trial of nearly 500 adults. That challenges the WHO's advice to avoid sweeteners for weight control, though with water as the only comparison the trial can show the drinks did no harm and cannot show they help.
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An MIT team used NASA's TEMPO satellite to estimate that temporary turbines in Mississippi emitted about 730 kilograms of nitrogen oxides an hour. SpaceXAI supplied a court submission saying local monitors have recorded no notable increase.
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Aurele Boussard's team at Toulouse-CNRS and Leeds asked when a group's confidence is evidence of its competence. Their answer turns on whether the members were also watching each other while they decided.
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A Leeds-led team sequenced 363 birds and 51 shared food and water resources at 12 farmland sites, and found the more virulent Type A strain over twice as prevalent in birds feeding at dense stations as at wild seed.
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Leeds researchers confirmed their predictions with pea and potato proteins bought off the shelf, which is the right first check and also the easiest one to pass, leaving most of the list untested and the formulation work still ahead.
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A Sentinel-1 radar pass caught the Aug. 4 break at Greenland's Petermann Glacier a day early. The two rifts still holding cover about 2.3 times the area that just left.
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