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Zanzibar’s Prison Island: The Prison That Never Was, by Sarah Longair
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/10/23/zanzibars-prison-island-the-prison-that-never-was-by-sarah-longair/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on October 23, 2014 My initial research on peculiar history of Zanzibar’s so-called Prison Island as part of the Carceral Archipelago project began last year delving into the records in the National Archives and the...
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World’s first picture of the molecular machinery that makes cilia beat
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/cilia
A picture of the structures that power human cilia – the tiny, hairlike projections that line our airways, has been produced by scientists for the first time.
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Bookings open for the University of Leicester’s space CPD course
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/space-park-cpd-course
Fundamentals of Space Short Courses now open for bookings
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Four-midable – Times Uni of the Year shortlisting is Leicester’s fourth accolade in September
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/times
The University of Leicester has been shortlisted for The Times and The Sunday Times University of The Year 2025, the fourth accolade it has received in recent weeks.
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Arctic rocket launch could uncover unique features of Earth’s life-sustaining atmosphere
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/05/12/arctic-rocket-launch-could-uncover-unique-features-of-earths-life-sustaining-atmosphere/
A Leicester expert in space weather has helped launch a NASA mission from deep within the Arctic Circle which could uncover unique features of our atmosphere that enable life on Earth.
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New Institute to bolster research among Leicester’s Health and Care professionals
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/institute-for-health
A new institute has been launched to radically boost the number of research opportunities available to Leicester’s nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, health scientists and pharmacists
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The Centre for Regional and Local History’s New Library Spaces
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/research/blog/new-library-spaces
Back in 2021 the Centre for English Local History moved out of Marc Fitch House at 3-5 Salisbury Road, where it had resided since 1988, to a new space on the University’s main campus.
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers high-altitude jet stream at Jupiter’s equator
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/jupiter-jet-streams
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) team including University of Leicester scientists has discovered a never-before-seen feature in Jupiter’s atmosphere.
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Where is the world’s happiest country?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/where-is-the-worlds-happiest-country/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 Find out in the 2016 update to the World Happiness report . It ranks 156 nations according to a number of detailed criteria which are explained in the methodology.
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Flaring star could be down to young planet’s disc inferno
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/planetary-disc-inferno
New simulations led by University of Leicester offer new explanation for star’s 85-year flare. In this scenario, a young giant planet is burning up very close to its star, suggesting solar systems may have hosted many of such planets that have since ‘evaporated’