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Dont try this at home How to make fireworks 17thcentury style
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/dont-try-this-at-home-how-to-make-fireworks-17th-century-style
With Guy Fawkes night (5 November) and Diwali (11 November) on the horizon, the skies of Leicester will be lit up over the next few weeks by firework displays - and a rare book held within the University's Library sheds light on how 17th century fireworks were made.
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Students calculate how much of the Amazon would be required to print the Internet
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/students-calculate-how-much-of-the-amazon-would-be-required-to-print-the-internet
Students from the The Centre for Interdisciplinary Science have calculated how much paper would be required to physically print the Internet as we know it - and have worked out that despite the Internet’s enormous size less than 1 per cent of the Amazon rainforest’s...
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Unravelling the Minion genome
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/unravelling-the-2018minion2019-genome
Based on what we know of the minions from the popular Despicable Me films – and the Minions movie current playing at cinemas – they could, in theory, have a complex genetic make-up similar to humans, according to Natural Sciences students Krisho Manoharan and Ruth Sang Jones.
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HeForShe celebrates two years of movement
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/heforshe-celebrates-two-years-of-movement
To mark the second anniversary of UN Women’s HeForShe movement, world leaders, change-makers, activists and celebrities will unite at a special event hosted at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City later this evening.
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Chicxulub crater study suggests asteroid impacts could create habitats for life
https://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 early life to take hold on earth.
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Queens Honour for University of Leicester PhD student
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/queens-honour-for-university-of-leicester-phd-student
A University of Leicester postgraduate student is going to Buckingham Palace next month to be honoured by HM The Queen.
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Leicester team wins inaugural race in Formula 1 aerodynamics competition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/leicester-team-wins-inaugural-race-in-formula-1-aerodynamics-competition
A Leicester team has taken pride of place in an international Formula 1 aerodynamics competition.
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Spark Festival lights up school holidays at Attenborough Arts
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/spark-festival-lights-up-school-holidays-at-attenborough-arts
Come along to Leicester’s favourite children’s festival between Monday 23 May – Saturday 4 June.
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Airbus Intelligence relocating to Space Park Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/24-airbus-space-park
artist impression of space park campus|The University of Leicester is pleased to announce that Airbus plans to relocate their Leicestershire-based Earth Observation expert team to Space Park Leicester when their current lease expires.
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Mayor of Oadby and Wigston views world-class research at University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/07-oadby-wigston-mayoral-visit
The Mayor of Oadby and Wigston, Councillor David Carter, accompanied by his consort, Mrs Janet Carter, viewed first-hand the world-class research into neurodegenerative diseases at the University of Leicester.