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Leicester experts uncover secrets of healthy ageing from the world’s oldest person
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/healthy-ageing-leicester-genome-maria
Leicester scientists have helped study the genetics and lifestyle factors that enabled María Branyas Morera, officially the oldest person in the world until she died last year, to reach 117 years old
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December Book Group: Officers and Gentlemen
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/12/19/officers/
Summary of the December 2014 meeting of the Waugh Book Group, Leicester
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Mars Sample Return is Underway with Mars2020 Launch
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/07/30/mars-sample-return-is-underway-with-mars2020-launch/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 30 July 2020 With the successful launch of Mars2020 from Cape Canaveral today the first stage in a long and complex sample return plan is finally underway – John Bridges explains on the Mars Science Laboratory...
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Doctoral College Inaugural Lectures
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/09/16/doctoral-college-inaugural-lectures/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 16 September 2020 Catch up on two Doctoral Lectures on Jupiter’s Northern Lights and Observing CO2 from Space Inaugural Lectures are where the very best of our research degree graduates get the chance to...
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Leicester Physicist Competing in Famelab 2020
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/04/24/leicester-physicist-competing-in-famelab-2020/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 24 April 2020 Leicester physicist takes part in the FameLab Northern Heat.
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Physics and Astronomy February 2021 Digest
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/03/01/physics-and-astronomy-february-2021-digest/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 1 March 2021 Two months in to 2021, and our Leicester Physics community remains distributed far and wide across the UK and beyond.
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Conversations with… Prof. Richard Alexander
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/12/13/conversations-with-prof-richard-alexander/
Conversations with... Prof. Richard Alexander
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The curse of zombie fossils
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/the-curse-of-zombie-fossils
New research has revealed how the history of life can be distorted by the ways animals decompose and lose body parts as they decay - and the ways in which decayed bodies ultimately become fossilised.
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Guilty or not guilty Public will decide during interactive forensic science event
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/guilty-or-not-guilty-public-will-decide-during-interactive-forensic-science-event
Members of the public will be deciding the outcome of two realistic criminal trials based on two real murder cases as part of an exciting interactive event during the Cheltenham Science Festival (5 – 10 June).
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Join us at an Offer Holder Day
https://le.ac.uk/study/undergraduates/offer-holders/book
Book a place on one of our Offer Holder Days. They are designed to give you the chance to find more about your course in depth. You will be able to chat to students, join in some taster lectures and fun activities, and talk to the people who will be teaching you next year.