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Cosmic Sociology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/sy2100
Module code: SY2100 Most aspects of social life and human endeavour have been subject to sociological analysis. However, one under-explored area in terms of sociological enquiry is space, space exploration and the universe.
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New Exoplanet-hunting Telescopes worked on by Leicester scientists
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/new-exoplanet-hunting-telescopes-worked-on-by-leicester-scientists
A new project involving University scientists will search for transiting exoplanets — planets that pass in front of their parent star and hence produce a slight dimming of the star’s light that can be detected by sensitive instruments.
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University mathematicians calculate how Foxes won the English Premier League
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/university-mathematicians-calculate-how-foxes-won-the-english-premier-league
Mathematicians at the University have generated the perfect formula to describe the historic achievement of Leicester City Football Club who won the English Premier League with 5000-1 odds at the start of the season.
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College Court shortlisted for three Leicester Mercury Business Awards
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/22-college-court-leicester-mercury-business-awards
The University of Leicester's College Court Conference Centre and Hotel has been shortlisted as a finalist in three categories at the Leicester Mercury Business Awards, organised by Champions UK plc.
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Breakthrough in diabetes management?
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/changing-lives
Our world-leading academics are investigating how supporting weight loss can help control blood glucose.
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University fellows and honorary staff
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/people/university-fellows-and-honorary
Browse our University Fellows and Honorary Staff in Archaeology and Ancient History at Leicester and see their subjects and contact details.
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The Dreadful Burning of the City of London
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/09/08/the-dreadful-burning-of-the-city-of-london/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 8, 2016 The atmosphere of London in 1666, before, as well as after, the outbreak of the Great Fire, was febrile – anti-Catholic feeling was potent and rife, portents and prophecies of terrible events...
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Publications
https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/structural-chemical-biology/publications
Members of the institute have published in a wide range of peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, Molecular Cell, Angewandte Chemie, JACS, Science Advances, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Nucleic Acids Research, Chemical Science and many others.
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Forests recovering from logging act as a source of carbon
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/forests-logging-carbon
New study led by University of Leicester PhD student and Imperial College London researchers contradicts previous assumptions.
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Leicester to host first UK screening of acclaimed documentary
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/salt-in-my-soul
Diane Shader Smith, an author in her own right and editor of Mallory’s posthumous book Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life which inspired the film, said: “Mallory was a gifted storyteller who created poetry out of prosaic experiences.