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Moon may have influenced Stonehenge builders says English Heritage
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/moon-stonehenge
Lunar standstill in 2024 offers rare opportunity to investigate. English Heritage teams up with leading astronomical experts in UK, including the University of Leicester, and USA
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£2.6 million centre to train mineral resources experts for a new generation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/target-minerals-postgraduate
Training and Research Group for Energy Transition Mineral Resources (TARGET) to be led by University of Leicester with universities, research organisations and industrial partners from across the UK to train the next generation of mineral resource experts to help the shift to...
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Leicester engineers to stress test new technology to store waste heat
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/energy-storage
A Europe-wide project developing a new electrothermal energy storage system involves materials experts at the University of Leicester and will take advantage of phase change materials (PCMs) to efficiently store heat
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New research centre to study the impact of the environment on human health
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/cehs
The Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability (CEHS) draws on experts from a wide variety of research backgrounds to investigate and mitigate the health problems from air pollution, environmental noise, and low-level chemical exposures.
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Engaging the digital generation in democracy: new insights presented by Leicester experts
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/digigen-conference
Research by University of Leicester explores how a digitally-literate younger generation becomes involved in politics through digital technology.
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Wider-reaching solutions urgently needed to reach realistic ‘net zero’, warn researchers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/landscape-decisions-net-zero
The group do, however, recognise that “swift action is essential, otherwise we head deeper towards an inability to reach net zero carbon targets, contribute to biodiversity collapse and, promote societal disengagement with landscapes”.
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Neptune is cooler than we thought: Study reveals unexpected changes in atmospheric temperatures
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/neptune-temperature
Yet, at Neptune’s south pole, the data reveal a different and surprisingly dramatic change.
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University of Leicester academic takes leading role in major new exhibition on Anglo-Saxon England
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/anglo-saxon-exhibition
Anglo-Saxon exhibition King Edgar’s Charter for the New Minster, Winchester – British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian A VIII ff.
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Study proves reducing sitting time boosts office staff’s work engagement and wellbeing
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/11-reducing-sitting-time-boosts-office-staffs-wellbeing
Teams from the University of Leicester and Loughborough University investigated simple solutions to reducing sitting time in the office.
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Jurassic calamari: amazing fossil proves that flying reptiles preyed on squid
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/january/27-pterosaur-vs-squid
Rhamphorhynchus muensteri, flying close to the water surface to grab soft-bodied cephalopods such as Plesioteuthis subovata. Artwork by C Klug and Beat Scheffold.|An incredible fossil brought to light in a new research paper reveals the feeding habits of extinct flying reptiles.