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Leicester students produce pedal powered cinema
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/leicester-students-produce-pedal-powered-cinema
A team of engineering students (pictured) has produced a bicycle powered generator which could power a 55 watt projector for the time required to watch a movie.
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Student study investigates how lasers can control lightning
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/student-study-investigates-how-lasers-can-control-lightning
Physics students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy have investigated the possibility of inducing, directing and controlling lightning strikes using lasers.
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Study suggests millions of modern men are descendants of 11 dynastic leaders
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/genetic-study-suggests-millions-of-modern-are-descendants-of-11-asian-dynastic-leaders
A team of geneticists led by Professor Mark Jobling from the Department of Genetics has discovered that millions of modern Asian men are descended from 11 powerful dynastic leaders, including Mongolian warlord Genghis Khan, who lived up to 4,000 years ago.
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Challenges in transport sector addressed at University conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/challenges-in-transport-sector-addressed-at-university-conference
EMBRACE welcomed more than 70 delegates to the Space Technology Solutions for Urban Transport conference held on 24 March at the MIRA Technology park.
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Heart professor stars in BBC documentary
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/heart-professor-stars-in-bbc-documentary
A leading Leicester professor is to appear in a BBC documentary after finding a link between red meat and heart disease. Professor Toru Suzuki (pictured) from the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences was asked to conduct an experiment looking at how steak affects the body.
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The Science of Reading to be explored in Professorial Inaugural Lecture
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/the-science-of-reading-to-be-explored-in-professorial-inaugural-lecture
A free public lecture hosted by the University of Leicester will provide an insight into how the brain learns to read and how reading behaviour changes with age on Thursday 16 March.
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Star of Channel 4 documentary to advise teachers on how to motivate students
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/channel-4-documentary-star-to-advise-teachers-on-how-to-motivate-students
Matthew Burton from the popular Channel 4 documentary 'Educating Yorkshire' will be exploring ways in which teachers can better motivate their students at a University conference on 15 January at the Stamford Court Conference Centre.
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Easter eggs hot cross buns and the microorganisms that help create them
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/easter-eggs-hot-cross-buns-and-the-microorganisms-that-help-create-them
With supermarket shelves filled with chocolate at this time of year, little thought goes into how the humble cocoa bean eventually becomes the popular Easter egg.
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East Midlands health innovation to be showcased at international conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/east-midlands-health-innovation-to-be-showcased-at-international-conference
A ground-breaking training project for junior doctors developed in Leicester and soon to be launched in Lincolnshire will be showcased to a global audience of health experts at an international event next Friday (24 April).
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When does colder mean hotter
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/explaining-the-increasing-temperature-of-cooling-granular-gases
Professor Nikolai Brilliantov from our Department of Mathematics has developed a theory to explain ‘heating by cooling’, where the temperature of a granular gas increases while the total energy drops down - a peculiar phenomenon which can be observed both on Earth...