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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...
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Discovery sheds light on how vertebrates see
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/discovery-sheds-light-on-how-vertebrates-see
New research led by Professor Sarah Gabbott from the Department of Geology has overturned a long-standing theory on how vertebrates evolved their eyes by identifying remarkable details of the retina in the eyes of 300 million year-old lamprey and hagfish fossils.
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Equality Diversity and Inclusion
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/equality-diversity-and-inclusion
Lead: Dr Huiping Xian Co-lead: Dr Rachel English ULSB’s Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) research group will support and promote scholarship across business and management disciplines in the areas of equality, diversity, and inclusion at organisational, societal and...
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LD3
https://le.ac.uk/ld3
Leicester Drug Discovery and Diagnostics supports translational research within the College of Life Sciences, providing pump-prime funding opportunities from sequential UKRI - Impact Acceleration Accounts (IAAs) to researchers to accelerate the development of medicines,...
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North Africa in Late Antiquity
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ah3020
Module code: AH3020 What changes took place in Africa in the last years of the Roman occupation? Why did the monks of Egypt turn to the desert to express their devotion? How did the Vandals establish a new kingdom in Carthage? Why was Augustine so obsessed...
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Calculations reveal Santa travels at 0.5% the speed of light
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/21-calculations-reveal-how-quickly-santa-travels
Calculations reveal how quickly Santa travels Santa and reindeer|University of Leicester students have worked out just how fast Santa Claus has to travel to deliver all of his presents on time On Christmas Eve night, Santa Claus and his reindeer fly around the world...
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Lede
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/01/24/lede/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 24, 2011 The Lede is a blog that mixes New York Times content with news stories and postings taken from blogs and citizen journalists. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.
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Research Methods in Cell Biology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/mb7002
Module code: MB7002 When a gene is found to be mutated in a cancer we first need to understand how its protein product functions and then how the protein produced by the mutant gene alters the behaviour of cancer cells.
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Research Methods in Cell Biology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/bs4002
Module code: BS4002 When a gene is found to be mutated in a cancer we first need to understand how its protein product functions and then how the protein produced by the mutant gene alters the behaviour of cancer cells.
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Autonomous vehicles at Science Museum Late
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/27-science-museum-late
Science Museum Lates are adults-only, after-hours theme nights that take place in the museum on the last Wednesday of every month. On Wednesday 28 August, the University of Leicester’s DriverLeics Team will be part of the Science Museum Late session, which runs from 6.