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Chicken and egg mystery solved in new DNA book for younger readers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/dna-childrens-book
New children’s book about genetics answers the age-old question of which came first, written by genetics experts working at the University of Leicester and the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
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University of Leicester hosts landmark conference on ECHR amid calls for reform
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/echr-reform-leicester-conference
The University of Leicester will cohost a high-level conference marking the 75th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights.
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School of Business Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies explores interdisciplinary research one step at a time through the power of walking
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/walking
A new University of Leicester project hopes to explore the ‘power of walking’ and how it impacts academics’ research processes.
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The Morning after Brexit
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2016/07/05/the-morning-after-brexit/
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on July 5, 2016 Brendan Lambe. Lecturer in Finance and an Irish European, reflects on the meaning of the referendum. On the morning of the 24 th of June we awoke to a Britain which had changed utterly.
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Researchers call for armchair astronomers to help find unknown hidden worlds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/zooniverse
Astronomers have launched a new online initiative, calling for volunteers to come forward and help to search for planets beyond our Solar System.
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Volcanoes, Tectonics and Mineral Resources
https://le.ac.uk/gge/research/solid-earth/volcanoes
Volcanology research investigates the evolution of the Earth’s crust and its interrelationships with the mantle and atmosphere/ocean system.
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Leicester among worlds most influential for asthma research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/leicester-among-2018world2019s-most-influential2019-for-asthma-research
A study of the most influential research in asthma in the last 50 years from around the world found that the University of Leicester and Leicester’s Hospitals asthma research team were in the top 3 worldwide.
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Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/research-stories/anglo-saxon-kingdoms
Description of a research project and exhibition on the history of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Early medieval history.
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Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/lunatic-asylum
What we have known since the 1960s as the Fielding Johnson Building was originally the Leicestershire County Lunatic Asylum: the first public provision of care for pauper ‘lunatics’ (an all-encompassing term used at the time for many mentally and physically debilitating...