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Research
https://le.ac.uk/lcrc/research
Prevention Prevention Grapes, Dates, Turmeric, Nuts and medicine on a table View our achievements for each of our research themes.
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Ultra-hot gas around remnants of Sun-like stars
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/07-stars
Stars (Left) Artist’s impression of the hot white dwarf GALEXJ014636.8+323615 (white) and its ultra-hot circumstellar magnetosphere (purple) trapped with the magnetic field (green). Credit: N. Reindl. (Right) Colour image of the white dwarf GALEXJ014636.
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University of Leicester awarded University of Sanctuary Recognition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/13-university-of-sanctuary
The University of Leicester has been recognised as a University of Sanctuary; one of only eight in the country and the only one in the region.
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Sneaking a peek at the ring of a 180km crater
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/sneaking-a-peek-at-the-ring-of-a-180km-crater
Researchers from the universities of Leicester and Montpellier will be heading to the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico to participate in a drilling expedition that addresses the science behind the Chicxulub impact structure.
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Calcium is key to age-related memory loss
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/09-presynaptic-calcium
Research in our Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour is offering new clues into how and why cognitive functions such as memory and learning become impaired with age.
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New research highlights how environment plays key role in changing movement behaviour of animals
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/new-research-highlights-how-environment-plays-key-role-in-changing-movement-behaviour-of-animals
Researchers from our Department of Mathematics have developed a theory which explains how small animals, such as bats, insects and birds, adjust their movement behaviour based on cues within their environment.
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Whose Reality?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2020/04/22/whose-reality/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on April 22, 2020 Although having a number of social media accounts, I seldom post on them.
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Mars Sample Return DWI
https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/space-projects-instrumentation/projects/mars-sample-return
The University of Leicester is leading a UK consortium of industry and academia to develop a Double Walled Isolator (DWI) Qualification Model (QM) for the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return Campaign.
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University of Leicester and National Nuclear Laboratory sign an agreement with Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute on future space battery design
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/05-agreement-signed-on-space-battery-design
Space battery signing Professor Iain Gillespie signing a memorandum of understanding|The memorandum of understanding (MoU) pledges new areas of cooperation on research on radioisotope thermoelectric power generators for use in space exploration.
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Steven Leach
https://le.ac.uk/people/steve-leach
The academic profile of Dr Steven Leach, Senior Research Associate and Teaching Fellow at University of Leicester