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Awardwinning documentary explores the hot and energetic universe
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/award-winning-documentary-explores-the-hot-and-energetic-universe
An award-winning documentary produced by an international consortium of space researchers, including scientists from our Department of Physics and Astronomy, explores the breath-taking achievements of modern astronomy.
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University urges others to support The Big Help Out volunteer drive
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/big-help-out
A major Leicester institution with a proud history of supporting communities has thrown its weight behind a nationwide volunteering project which marks the Coronation of His Majesty the King.
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University of Leicester is =26th in the world for research quality in latest global ranking
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/26th-research-quality-global-ranking-times-higher-education
Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026 place Leicester =26th for research quality and positions Leicester 192nd overall out of 2191 institutions
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Japanese manga series to showcase women in the sciences
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/japanese-manga-series-to-showcase-women-in-the-sciences
Dr Ana Verissimo from the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences is combining her love for Japanese art with her passion for the sciences by launching a campaign to create the first instalment in a new manga series.
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University life in the 1920s revealed through historical interview
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/university-life-in-the-1920s-revealed-through-historical-interview
A new project organised by our University is making a number of oral history interviews with people who lived during the 19th and 20th centuries available online.
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Measuring the success of air quality interventions
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/air-quality-interventions
A new paper examining the historic success of interventions to improve air quality and the resulting impact on better health and environmental outcomes, has recommended a joint solution co-created by scientists and policy leads to achieve longer lasting change.
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In which British city do people earn the most?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/in-which-british-city-do-people-earn-the-most/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 Find out this and other fascinating facts and figures on the economic and social indicators of Britain’s major cities by consulting the latest Cities outlook 2016 which has just...
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The Boy Who Lived Students put the science of Harry Potters universe to the test
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/students-put-the-science-of-harry-potter2019s-universe-to-the-test
In the world of Harry Potter the young wizard undergoes two magical biological transformations: eating Gillyweed to grow gills in order to breathe underwater and drinking Skele-Gro to repair broken bones.
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Report on the World Social Situation digitised
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/07/08/report-on-the-world-social-situation-digitised/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 8, 2019 The Dag Hammarskjöld Library has recently digitised back runs of the Report on the World Social Situation (RWSS) published between 1952 to 1993.
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Physics Research Bites: The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2023/01/13/physics-research-bites-the-solar-wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere-link-explorer-smile/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 13 January 2023 Our guest speaker Dr Jennifer Carter will be giving a talk on the University of Leicester’s involvement with the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE), and how the mission...