ScholarPeer’s latest research news and reporting from Queen’s University Belfast. Queen’s University Belfast is a research-intensive university with major strengths in medicine, biomedical science, engineering, cybersecurity, data science, advanced materials, and environmental research. Its researchers investigate areas including cancer, infectious disease, precision medicine, artificial intelligence, sustainable energy, food security, and conflict studies, combining fundamental and interdisciplinary research to address major challenges in health, technology, society, and the environment.
A meta-analysis of 45 studies links short bursts of fine particulate air pollution, and months of elevated nitrogen dioxide, with higher odds of death by suicide, adding pollution to the shrinking list of modifiable risk factors researchers can act on.