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Study suggests Mobile Scan and Pay Technology could promote supermarket theft
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/study-suggests-mobile-scan-and-pay-technology-could-promote-supermarket-theft
Allowing customers to scan products and pay for them using their own mobile phones or iPads is becoming an increasingly common sight in retail outlets.
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First study examining pregnancy in the Viking Age: Pregnant women wearing martial helmets, fetuses set to avenge their fathers, but also a harsh world where not all newborns were given burial or born free
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/first-study-into-pregnancy-in-viking-age
A new, interdisciplinary study is the first focused examination of pregnancy in the Viking Age.
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Agreement opens a new route for Canada students to study law in the UK
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/humber
The University of Leicester has strengthened its Canadian connections after signing an agreement with Toronto’s Humber Polytechnic.
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Forensics course explores how science helps police to solve crimes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/forensics-course-explores-how-science-helps-police-to-solve-crimes
A popular free course offered by our University showcasing how police use forensic science to solve crimes will be running for its fourth time starting from 3 October 2016.
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Free online course offers insights into the time of Richard III
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/free-online-course-offers-insights-into-the-time-of-richard-iii
As the first anniversary of the reinterment of Richard III approaches in March, our University is relaunching its highly popular online course that explores what it was really like to live in the world of the last Plantagenet King.
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New study exposes causes behind criminal case backlogs in England and Wales
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/police-crime-cps-england-wales-criminal-case-backlog
A University of Leicester-led study has unearthed critical factors delaying the progression of criminal cases from police investigations to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for charging decisions in England and Wales.
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Tool to predict future risk of heart attacks and strokes across diverse, global populations given green light in latest study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/may/heart-tool-prevent-leicester-study
A tool to predict the risk of future cardiovascular disease using measures of kidney function across diverse populations has been given the green light by researchers at the University of Leicester
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The Bulletin - Leicester study suggests exercise counteracts sitting time
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/the-bulletin-leicester-study-suggests-exercise-counteracts-sitting-time
In this episode of The Bulletin from the University of Leicester News Centre: Hear about the research which suggests that exercise counteracts sitting time.
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Symposium - 80 Years On: Memory and Legacy of World War II in ESEA Popular Culture
https://le.ac.uk/arts/news/events/80-years-on
A symposium exploring the portrayal of WWII 80 years on hosted by Film Studies and Modern Languages
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Landmark genetic study sheds new light on how the eye develops its sharpest vision
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/eye-genetic-study-foveal-leicester
Combining artificial intelligence and genetics has allowed researchers in Leicester to study the part of the eye that gives us sharp central vision in amazing detail for the first time