The benefits of increasing insect consumption have been widely explored, but not the technological and processing approaches that can help achieve this goal

Researchers used long-term records from more than 100 plots to track the lives of individual trees across the Amazon region

High-powered microscopes revealed the structure of amyloid—a build-up of abnormal proteins in the body that causes disease

Scientists have measured the nutritional value of herbivore dinosaurs' diet by growing their food in atmospheric conditions similar to those found roughly 150 million years ago

Researchers found that although a mass extinction in the Late Triassic period wiped out the vast proportion of species, there appears to be no drastic changes to the way marine ecosystems functioned.

New University of Leeds-led research calls into question a recent study from the University of Bristol that reported 45 cubic kilometres per year increase in ice loss from the sector

New study suggests policies could miss some of the most diverse forests because there is no clear connection between the number of tree species in a forest and how much carbon that forest stores

Recovery of the hole has varied from year to year, due in part to the effects of volcanic eruptions

Team now wants to examine whether medications such as anti-inflammatory creams can stop the virus establishing an infection if used quickly enough 

Previously, scientists had thought that creatures living in the southernmost regions of the planet would have been in a less perilous position during the mass extinction event 

Scientists at the University of Leeds will run the equivalent of password cracking software to find the chemical keys to defeating the Ebola virus

A new £7 million centre at the University of Leeds will lead UK research in manufacturing advanced chemical products.