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Jupiter awaits Junos arrival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/jupiter-awaits-juno2019s-arrival
Stunning new images and the highest-resolution maps to date of Jupiter at thermal infrared wavelengths give a glowing view of Juno’s target, a week ahead of the NASA mission’s arrival at the giant planet.
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Research shows global warming disaster could suffocate life on planet Earth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/research-shows-global-warming-disaster-could-suffocate-life-on-planet-earth
Falling oxygen levels caused by global warming could be a greater threat to the survival of life on planet Earth than flooding, according to research led by Professor Sergei Petrovskii from the Department of Mathematics.
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Star of Channel 4 documentary to advise teachers on how to motivate students
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/channel-4-documentary-star-to-advise-teachers-on-how-to-motivate-students
Matthew Burton from the popular Channel 4 documentary 'Educating Yorkshire' will be exploring ways in which teachers can better motivate their students at a University conference on 15 January at the Stamford Court Conference Centre.
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Secrets of our ancient animal ancestors may be revealed through oldest DNA sequences
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/secrets-of-our-ancient-animal-ancestors-may-be-revealed-through-oldest-dna-sequences
700 million year-old DNA sequences from ancient animals have been unearthed by researchers at the Universities of Leicester and Warwick, shedding new light on our earliest animal ancestors and how they influenced modern species - including the sponge.
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Why do we still love James Bond
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/why-do-we-still-love-james-bond
On Monday 26 October, another new James Bond movie will hit our cinema screens and the publicity machinery seems to be in overdrive. Spectre is the twenty-fourth in the continuous film series based on Ian Fleming’s British superspy and is produced by Eon Productions for MGM/Sony.
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Website showcases inspiring examples of inclusive arts
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/website-showcases-inspiring-examples-of-inclusive-arts
A new website has been launched containing stories from arts organisations across the East Midlands around art practice with disabled children and young people.
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Research suggests ethnicity could impact health of kidney transplant patients
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/ethnicity-could-impact-health-of-kidney-transplant-patients
People’s ethnicity impacts their physical activity following a kidney transplant, according to research carried out by a Leicester team.
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Using DNA fingerprinting to catch a killer
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/using-dna-fingerprinting-to-catch-a-killer
This summer marks 30 years since DNA fingerprinting - discovered by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys right here in the University's Department of Genetics in 1984 - was first used in a criminal investigation.
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Leicester ranked in Europe’s top 100 innovative universities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/03-reuters-top-100
The University of Leicester is ranked 76th in Reuters Europe’s Most Innovative Universities Ranking, equivalent to 16th in the UK.
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When does colder mean hotter
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/explaining-the-increasing-temperature-of-cooling-granular-gases
Professor Nikolai Brilliantov from our Department of Mathematics has developed a theory to explain ‘heating by cooling’, where the temperature of a granular gas increases while the total energy drops down - a peculiar phenomenon which can be observed both on Earth...