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Ig Nobel Prize-winning geologist on why rocks speak in tongues
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/ig-nobel-zalasiewicz
Professor Jan Zalasiewicz, Emeritus Professor in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, explains the research that won him an Ig Nobel Prize in 2023.
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New educational video series on Icelandic eruptions recognised in three of the UK’s most prestigious Geography educational awards
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/video-icelandic-eruptions-geography-educational-awards
University Leicester contributes to video series through the involvement of Dr Marc Reichow from the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment
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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.
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Expert in infectious diseases to call for research improvements during epidemics
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/expert-in-infectious-diseases-to-call-for-research-improvements-during-epidemics
The research response to epidemics has been slow and our attitude to carrying out research in the midst of infectious disease outbreaks needs to change, an expert in infectious diseases will argue at a lecture on 18 November.
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Movember 2023
https://le.ac.uk/movember
Would you like to raise funds for men’s health causes and have fun at the same time? Why not join students and staff across the University this Movember? The main way that people raise funds for Movember is by growing a sponsored moustache – ‘Grow a mo to help a bro’ – but in...
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JWST peers into the heart of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/red-spot-jwst
Observations by University of Leicester scientists reveal the interior of Solar System’s largest anticyclone like never before and its three-dimensional structure of temperatures, winds, and clouds in the vortex
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Hooray for the National Trust
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2017/04/05/hooray-for-the-national-trust/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on April 5, 2017 There are many things in life that one should really rise above and not respond to. One such thing, in my humble opinion, is the Daily Mail.
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A Catalyst for Change
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/catalyst-for-change
An innovative project to take museum collections out to those communities which the museum service had failed to reach
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New research shows how to optimise antibiotic use and combat antibiotic resistance
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/29-antibiotic-resistance
Antibiotic resistance Pharmacist selecting antibiotics 1250|Recommendations from University of Leicester scientists could help reduce over-use of antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest problems facing medicine today.
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Medicine offers weight-loss hope for patients with type-2 diabetes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/surpass-2
New research by academics at the University of Leicester published today (Friday) has given fresh hope to patients with type-2 diabetes, after Eli Lilly and Company’s SURPASS-2 clinical trial showed that 60% of patients achieved a 10% percent or greater weight loss with 15 mg...