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• Lecture to discuss how sexual commerce has adapted to the digital age

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/how-sexual-commerce-has-adapted-to-the-digital-age

  An exploration of how commercial sex in the Western world is mediated or performed through the internet and digital technologies forms part of a series of free seminars available for the public to attend through 2016/17.

• Dr Grant Dewson

  https://le.ac.uk/respiratory-sciences/alumni/grant-dewson

  Find out more about Dr Grant Dewson, alumnus of the University of Leicester Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation.

• Black hole bullseye sheds light on interstellar dust

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/black-hole-2018bulls-eye2019-sheds-light-on-interstellar-dust

  What looks like a shooting target (right) is actually an image of nested rings of X-ray light centred on an erupting black hole. On June 15, NASA's Swift satellite detected the start of a new outburst from V404 Cygni, where a black hole and a sun-like star orbit each other.

• Case of memoryloss man like nothing we have ever seen before

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/case-of-memory-loss-man-like-nothing-we-have-ever-seen-before

  Clinical psychologist Dr Gerald Burgess from the School of Psychology has described treating an individual with a ‘Groundhog Day/Memento’- style memory loss after a root-canal treatment at a dentist as ‘like nothing we have ever seen before’ in a paper published in...

• Could scream power meet Britains energy requirements

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/could-screams-meet-britains-energy-requirements

  Screams extracted from the population of Britain, as seen in the Disney and Pixar film Monsters, Inc,. could theoretically be used to generate enough energy to power the country, according to a Natural Sciences student from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science.

• How much is your time really worth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/how-much-is-your-time-really-worth

  While a penny doesn't buy much nowadays, Natural Sciences student Osarenkhoe Uwuigbe from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science has investigated the popular idiom ‘A penny for your thoughts’ by working out how much of a person’s thought could theoretically be...

• University of Leicester the most affordable student destination for the second year running

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/leicester-the-most-affordable-student-destination-for-the-second-year-running

  New research from HSBC shows that the University of Leicester is the most affordable destination in Britain for first-year students for the second year in a row - and the second most affordable for second-year students.

• Turkish Minister in University visit

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/turkish-minister-in-university-visit

  The Turkish Deputy Minister for Economy Adnan Yildirim, was in the East Midlands as the guest of the Leicester Asian Business Association (LABA) to further enhance Bilateral Trade, investment and research links between Turkey and the Midlands.

• Change Gear for the all clear against cancer

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/change-gear-for-the-all-clear-against-cancer

  On the 27 March 2015, students studying Cancer Chemistry will be aiming to raise over £1,000 for Hope Against Cancer, the local cancer research charity.

• How alien auroras reveal planetary information

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/how-alien-auroras-reveal-planetary-information

  Beyond their spectacular light shows, auroras can tell us a huge amount of information about a planet.