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Three-eyed distant relative of insects and crustaceans reveals amazing detail of early animal evolution
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/kylinxia-fossil-scanning
Scientists from the University of Leicester and Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology use cutting edge scanning technology to reconstruct ‘fossil monster’ that lived half a billion years ago, filling a gap in our understanding of the evolution of arthropods such as insects...
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Mining the Museum
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2013/06/05/mining-the-museum-2/
Posted by Janet Marstine in School of Museum Studies Blog on June 5, 2013 On 22 May at the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) conference in Baltimore I attended an unforgettable session commemorating twenty years since artist Fred Wilson’s precedent-setting intervention...
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The World that Management Made
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2016/04/20/the-world-that-management-made/
Posted by Gibson Burrell in School of Business Blog on April 20, 2016 Robert MacFarlane’s excellent piece on the ‘Anthropocene’ age in a recent issue of The Guardian deserves attention in a number of ways.
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Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/108/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Early-risers may catch “Father Christmas” on his way back to the North Pole via the skies above the UK
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/father-christmas-skies-space-park-leicester
The International Space Station is due to make a 'high pass' at 06:18 local time and, weather permitting, visible until around 06:23
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Policy on student engagement
https://le.ac.uk/policies/regulations/engagement-monitoring/policy
Download the policy on student engagement (PDF, 196kb) Introduction and scope 1.1 Regular engagement is an important aspect of learning and the student experience. Students who engage with all aspects of their programme are more likely to succeed with their studies. 1.
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Researchers make sand that flows uphill
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/sand-microrollers
Paper published in 'Nature Communications' details how applying magnetic forces to individual 'microroller' particles spurs collective motion—with counterintuitive results
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Research funding and partners
https://le.ac.uk/brexit/research
The EU has been an important source of funding for our research at the University of Leicester. We have seen in the past year the largest percentage increase in EU grant funding of any UK institution: up 72% to £6.7 million.
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8th January 2014 Sol 506
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/01/08/8th-january-2014-sol-506/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 8, 2014 Its Stargazing Live at University of Leicester today.
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Earth Day: National Space Centre launches Home Planet gallery
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/home-planet
The next generation of climate change superheroes discovered the importance of our home in space at the launch of a new National Space Centre gallery to coincide with Earth Day 2022 on Friday.