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Centres and Institutes
https://le.ac.uk/cse/research/centres-and-institutes
Centre for Landscape and Climate Research The aim of the CLCR is to understand interactions of the water cycle with ecosystems across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
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The sweatband: the moral arbiter of our time?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/sweatband
Read the article "The sweatband: the moral arbiter of our time?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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New exercise app using space data aims to help those with long-term health conditions
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/p-step
A personalised new exercise app for people with long-term health conditions including heart and lung disease and diabetes is set to be piloted by researchers from the University of Leicester.
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Space Park Leicester’s new satellite system monitoring real-time imagery of Hurricane Beryl
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/satellite-imagery-hurricane
Researchers at Space Park Leicester use a new state-of-the-art satellite data acquisition system known as EUMETCast to capture near real-time images of Hurricane Beryl.
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Student gospel choir to give pop-up concert at Leicester’s John Lewis for Black History Month
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/student-gospel-choir-concert-john-lewis-black-history-month
A student gospel choir will entertain John Lewis shoppers as part of the University of Leicester’s Black History Month celebrations.
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Welcome to our Summer Interns
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/06/29/welcome-to-our-summer-interns/
SURE summer internships 2021
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Research explores how destroyed star rains onto black hole
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/destroyed-star-rains-onto-black-hole-winds-blow-it-back
New details about what happens when a black hole tears apart a star have been gathered by a trio of orbiting X-ray telescopes giving scientists, including Leicester astronomers, an excellent opportunity to understand the extreme environment around a black hole.
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Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys is the god of forensic science says bestselling crime author in new video
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/patricia-cornwell-describes-impact-inventor-of-genetic-fingerprinting-has-had-on-her-career
Bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell has paid tribute to the University of Leicester Professor who invented the technique of genetic fingerprinting during her visit to De Montfort Hall in Leicester to give a talk as part of the University Literary Leicester festival...
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New advance announced in fight against Alzheimers and Parkinsons
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/new-advance-announced-in-fight-against-alzheimers-and-parkinsons
A five-year study by an international team led by Leicester has found a way of ‘reversing’ symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s – using fruit flies as test subjects.
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Can Santa Claus see your house from his sleigh?
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/20-christmas-lights
Millions of children across the world will be looking up at the night sky on Christmas Eve to get a glimpse of Santa Claus and his reindeer – but what if he could see your house from the sky? Students at the University of Leicester may have found the answer, after calculating...