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150-million-year post-mortem reveals baby pterosaurs perished in a violent storm
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/150-million-year-post-mortem-baby-pterosaurs-storm
University of Leicester scientists have identified two extraordinary new fossils - tiny prehistoric flying reptiles, pterosaurs, with broken wings
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Study should inform future health provision for premature youngsters
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/preterm-healthcare-leicester-study
A new study by University of Leicester researchers has found that children born preterm spend an average of two days admitted to hospital between...
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GBBO finalist Josh to judge public’s attempts to turn science into cake
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/gbbo-finalist-josh-judge-public-science-cake
Dr Josh Smalley will judge a national baking contest run by the Medical Research Foundation
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Nine Leicester academics appointed to Research Excellence Framework 2029 roles
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/leicester-academics-appointed-research-excellence-framework-2029
Research England has appointed nine academics from the University of Leicester to serve as expert panellists in the next Research Excellence...
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Leicester researchers identify ethnic disparities in accessing continuous glucose monitors
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/ethnic-disparities-glucose-monitoring-leicester
People from Afro-Caribbean and South Asian backgrounds are less likely to be prescribed “life-changing” diabetes technology compared to White...
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Triple shortlisting for Leicester in the Times Higher Education (THE) Awards 2025
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/times-higher-education-shortlisted-leicester
The University of Leicester has been shortlisted in three categories at the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) Awards 2025 which recognise...
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Professor Gordon Campbell elected as fellow of Royal Society of Canada
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/gordon-campbell-royal-society-of-canada-fellowship
Gordon Campbell, Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Leicester, has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada.
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Space City welcomes MP to discuss UK in space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/space-city-welcomes-mp
Stephen Doughty MP, Minister for Europe and North America, joined a roundtable discussion at Space Park Leicester
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New test could help preserve endangered gibbon populations
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/gibbons-twycross-genetic-endangered
A Leicester geneticist working with ape specialists at Twycross Zoo has developed a test which could help preserve highly vulnerable Gibbon...
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Intimidation, slurs and threats – study uncovers racism in rural England
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/intimidation-slurs-threats-study-racism-rural-england
A study into racism in rural England has found many minority ethnic individuals and families feel the countryside is an unwelcoming and unsafe...