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Leicester City Science Stars
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/leicester-city-science-stars
Ever wondered what would happen when a group of football professionals, an astronaut in training and 30 children are in one room? Last week more than 30 primary school children explored what it would take to become an astronaut and learned how to build their own rockets...
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Richard III Geneticist leads DNA search to identify the man who shaped early America
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/richard-iii-geneticist-leads-dna-search-to-identify-the-man-who-shaped-early-america
The University of Leicester geneticist who led the DNA identification of the ‘The King under the car park’ –Richard III – has been called upon to help identify the headless remains believed to be those of a man ‘who shaped early America’.
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Awful Things Began to Happen: Rapid Change of Ainu Homeland and Convict Labour as Seen by the Ainu,
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/01/27/awful-things-began-to-happen-rapid-change-of-ainu-homeland-and-convict-labour-as-seen-by-the-ainu-by-minako-sakata/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on January 27, 2015 The Kamikawa region is one of areas that today still has relatively a large population of the Ainu.
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Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: P
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/page/2/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Deck the halls with Christmas lights all the way to space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/18-deck-halls-christmas-lights-space
A house illuminated with Christmas lights|University of Leicester students have calculated how many Christmas lights are needed to decorate a house to be visible from space.
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Im ready to celebrate the end of an enjoyable and successful time at Leicester and prepare for the next chapter
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/201cim-ready-to-celebrate-the-end-of-an-enjoyable-and-successful-time-at-leicester-and-prepare-for-the-next-chapter201d
Student Sam Cranswick’s contribution to Team Leicester is a perfect example of how becoming involved with university sport can lead to a number of exciting opportunities both on and off of the pitch.
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Leicester “leads the way” on new National Space Strategy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/uk-space-strategy
The University of Leicester has today (Monday) welcomed publication of the UK Government’s new National Space Strategy.
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Cutting ourselves out of the worlds largest economic bloc would undermine our position as a global leader in science and innovation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/cutting-ourselves-out-of-the-world2019s-largest-economic-bloc-would-undermine-our-position-as-a-global-leader-in-science-and-innovation
President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle (pictured) has joined 95 other UK university Vice-Chancellors in outlining why universities are stronger in Europe.
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Witnesses, wives, politicians, soldiers: the women of Waterloo
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/onthisdayofwar/2015/06/22/witnesses-wives-politicians-soldiers-the-women-of-waterloo/
Posted by Philip Shaw in On This Day of War on June 22, 2015 Witnesses, wives, politicians, soldiers: the women of Waterloo By Katherine Astbury Associate Professor and Reader of French at University of Warwick Visit The Last Stand: Napoleon’s 100 Days in 100 Objects: www.
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Bizarre new fossils shed light on ancient plankton
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/fossils-plankton
Microfossils discovered by University of Leicester scientist date back half a billion years. Resembling modern-day algae, they provide insight into early life in our oceans.