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                    Convicts, Collecting and Knowledge Production in the Nineteenth Centuryhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/07/27/convicts-collecting-and-knowledge-production-in-the-nineteenth-century/ Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on July 27, 2015 In previous blogs, I have explored some of the circulations and connections that linked nations, colonies and empires, and wove together practices of punishment and penal labour across polities and imperial spaces. 
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                    The Bloody Business of the Bloody Code: Dissecting the Criminal Corpse. By Elizabeth Hurrenhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/05/03/bloody-business-bloody-code/ Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on May 3, 2016 Imagine hearing local gossip that a notorious murderer was about to be executed, and that everyone in the vicinity of a homicide was planning to turn out to see the violent culprit... 
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                    Stars align as Leicester awards honorary degree to NASA’s science headhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/leicester-awards-honorary-degree-nasa-science-head University of Leicester honours the work of NASA’s effective head of science, Dr Nicola Fox, who revealed that beloved Leicester City mascot Filbert Fox has a special place at the United States’ famous space agency. 
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                    Ground-breaking space technology receives real-life health applicationhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/29-space-technology Air quality heat map Air quality heat map 1200|UK Space Agency awards Leicester team £2 million. 
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                    Its written in the starshttps://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/its-written-in-the-stars Astronomers today opened one of the last remaining windows on the Universe, publishing the first full 3D census of over one billion stars in our Milky Way. 
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                    Archaeological placementhttps://le.ac.uk/ulas/about/work-placements/placement ULAS offers a 3 to 6 month commercial fieldwork placement, intended for those who are interested in gaining knowledge surrounding all aspects of practical training in field archaeology. 
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                    Leicester scientists scouring skies for falling fireballshttps://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/fireball-camera A special camera to detect fireballs has been installed at Space Park Leicester to help recover meteorites when they fall to Earth from outer space. 
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                    The secret behind Scrooge? Research studies Dickens’ coded lettershttps://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/dickens-code Charles Dickens’s festive favourite A Christmas Carol is a staple of the holiday season. But now Leicester literary experts are part of an international team looking to uncover the secrets of the author’s coded manuscripts. 
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                    Research shows higher rates of stillbirth and neonatal death for those living in deprived areas, minority ethnic groups and twin pregnancieshttps://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/stillbirth People living in the UK’s most deprived areas, minority ethnic groups and those with twin pregnancies all continue to experience higher rates of stillbirth and neonatal death according to new research from the MBRRACE-UK team at the University of Leicester. 
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                    Eating fruit may reduce the effects of air pollution on lung functionhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/fruit-air-pollution-lung-function Eating fruit may reduce the effects of air pollution on lung function, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Amsterdam by Leicester scientists