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                Leicester reaches three million readers on The Conversationhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/leicester-reaches-three-million-readers-on-the-conversation Academics from across our University have collectively captured the imagination of over three million readers through over 180 articles written... 
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                Academic discusses Anthropocene for BBC Radio 4s The Life Scientific programmehttps://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/academic-discusses-2018age-of-man2019-for-bbc-radio-42019s-the-life-scientific-programme Professor Jan Zalasiewicz (pictured) from the Department of Geology featured on BBC Radio Four’s ‘The Life Scientific’ programme to discuss... 
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                Forbes names Leicester academic in list of prodigious stars changing the worldhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/forbes-names-leicester-academic-in-list-of-prodigious-stars-changing-the-world A researcher from our Department of Geology has been named to Forbes’ second annual ‘30 Under 30 Europe’ list in the Science and Healthcare Category. 
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                Leicester research makes Altmetric Top 100 list for 2016https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/leicester-research-makes-altmetric-top-100-list-for-2016 Research led by our University has been featured in the Altmetric 2016 Top 100, which recognises the most shared and discussed academic research... 
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                Leicester research selected as top story by international news distribution platformhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/leicester-research-selected-as-top-story-by-international-news-distribution-platform Recent research into the technosphere by Professors Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams and Colin Waters from the Department of Geology has been... 
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                Research finds Earths technosphere now weighs 30 trillion tonshttps://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/research-finds-earths-2018technosphere2019-now-weighs-30-trillion-tons An international team led by our geologists has made the first estimate of the sheer size of the physical structure of the planet’s technosphere –... 
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                Study reveals mysteries of enzyme mechanismhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/study-reveals-mysteries-of-enzyme-mechanism An international research team led by our University has made a breakthrough advance by trapping an intermediate in the mechanism of enzymes... 
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                New effects in ideal gases solve mathematical mysteryhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/new-effects-in-ideal-gases-solve-mathematical-mystery A Mathematician from our Department of Mathematics, Professor Alexander Gorban, along with a physicist from ETH Zürich, Ilya Karlin, have... 
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                Chicxulub crater study suggests asteroid impacts could create habitats for lifehttps://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/chicxulub-crater-study-suggests-asteroid-impacts-could-create-habitats Scientists studying a 65-million-year old crater in the Gulf of Mexico, caused by an asteroid impact, claim it could have provided a habitat for... 
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                Leicester geologist contributes to major project examining the technospherehttps://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/leicester-geologist-contributes-to-major-project-examining-the-2018technosphere2019 Professor Jan Zalasiewicz from our Department of Geology is working with artist Anne-Sophie Milon on a new project examining the ‘technosphere’...