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Assassins Creed may give gamers a gripping sense of vertigo but its leaping calculations are optimistic at best
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/the-science-of-assassins-creed
The popular video game franchise 'Assassin’s Creed' often depicts characters leaping off tall buildings into piles of loose hay or straw lying on the ground or in a cart, by diving head first then executing a half-summersault to land on their back.
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Journalism academic set for ninth night of general election analysis
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/tor-election
As election fever hits the UK, one University of Leicester academic is about to cover his ninth UK general election night.
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Prestigious grant powers research into revolutionary battery technology
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/prestigious-grant-powers-research-into-revolutionary-battery-technology
Research by our Department of Chemistry into alternatives to conventional batteries has been boosted by funding from the European Union.
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New collaboration sees Museum Studies students access vast Arts Council Collection
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/new-collaboration-sees-museum-studies-students-access-vast-arts-council-collection
Boundaries will be crossed and relationships formed in a new exhibition by University of Leicester students that will feature internationally celebrated artworks.
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New robot to detect Parkinson’s disease could be used on humans in the next 5 years
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/parkinsons-robot
Parkinson’s disease is caused by a loss of nerve cells in part of the brain called the substantia nigra. As a result, dopamine – a chemical that helps to regulate movement of the body – drops.
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Scientist behind life-saving cancer research returns to Leicester for honorary award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/scientist-behind-life-saving-cancer-research-leicester-honorary-award
Award-winning scientist Dr Angela Coxon has returned to her old university in Leicester to receive an honorary title.
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Self-translations printed in Italy and France
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/05/24/self-translations-printed-in-italy-and-france/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2024 Writing Bilingually: self-translations printed in Italy and France from 1465 to 1700 .
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WoolfNotes
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/08/16/woolfnotes/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2024 WoolfNotes is a major digital humanities project led by King’s College London.
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Leicester Lit & Phil University of Leicester staff blogs
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2013/09/19/leicester-lit-phil/
Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on September 19, 2013 This is just a quick plug for colleagues’ contributions to this year’s Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society lecture programme.
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extraORDINARY women NI
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/10/07/extraordinary-women-ni/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2022 A site supported by Linen Hall Library which celebrates the strengths, lives and achievements of Northern Irish women from 1965 to the present day.