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  • 2024

    Archive programme for the Centre for Victorian Studies 2024 Seminar Programme.

  • Student study investigates how lasers can control lightning

    Physics students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy have investigated the possibility of inducing, directing and controlling lightning strikes using lasers.

  • Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi conferred University of Leicester honorary professorship

    Her Excellency Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi awarded University of Leicester honorary professorship for global impact in literacy, culture, and women’s empowerment.

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  • Study suggests millions of modern men are descendants of 11 dynastic leaders

    A team of geneticists led by Professor Mark Jobling from the Department of Genetics has discovered that millions of modern Asian men are descended from 11 powerful dynastic leaders, including Mongolian warlord Genghis Khan, who lived up to 4,000 years ago.

  • Research team receives 65 million for EURO SHOCK heart attack study

    A team of researchers at the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, UK - a partnership between Leicester’s Hospitals, the University of Leicester and Loughborough University - has been awarded €6.5 million from the Horizon 2020 European Commission fund.

  • Study reveals new associations with lung disease and smoking behaviour

    Smokers who survive their habit into old age may hold the key to better lung health for all, according to a study involving co-led by Professor Martin Tobin (pictured) from the Department of Health Sciences and funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC).

  • Study finds veins on Mars were formed by evaporating ancient lakes

    Mineral veins found in Mars’s Gale Crater were formed by the evaporation of ancient Martian lakes, a new study has shown.

  • What do grasshoppers eat? It’s not just grass! New Leicester research shows similarities with mammal teeth like never before

    But analysis of the ecological importance of grasshoppers is not straightforward, and finding out what they eat requires detailed study of the contents of their guts or painstaking and time-consuming observations of how they feed in the wild. There is, however, a better way.

  • Expert reaction to study looking at air pollution and lung cancer survival

    Professor Michael Peake (pictured), Honorary Consultant and Professor of Respiratory Medicine from the Institute for Lung Health has commented on new research suggesting that pollution may shorten lung cancer patients' lives.

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