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Rotting fish help solve mystery of how soft tissue fossils form
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/fish-ph-fossils
One of the finest examples of such fossils includes a Cretaceous-era octopus of the extinct genus Keuppia unearthed in Lebanon, estimated to be at least 94 million years old. Sarah Gabbott is a Professor of Palaeobiology and co-author of the paper.
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Real-world experience enhances Maths students’ skills
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/maths-industry-placements
Mathematics students from the University of Leicester have been putting their skills to use with a number of high-profile industry placements.
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Engineer creates open-source ventilator for COVID-19 patients
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/ventilator
A University of Leicester-based engineer has created an innovative new ventilator designed to help COVID-19 patients.
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Researchers shed light on why and how Stonehenge was built
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/researchers-shed-light-on-why-and-how-stonehenge-was-built
Excavation of two quarries in Wales by a team of archaeologists and geologists - including Dr Rob Ixer, a researcher with the Department of Geology - has confirmed they are sources of Stonehenge’s ‘bluestones’, shedding light on how they were quarried...
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Beating health inequalities
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/beating-health-inequalities
Professor Kamlesh Khunti and Dr Manish Pareek played a leading role in helping understand how COVID-19 has disproportionately affected ethnic minority populations.
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Chang’e 5: China launches Sample Return Mission to the Moon
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/11/26/change-5-china-launches-sample-return-mission-to-the-moon/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 26 November 2020 Professor John Bridges reports on the successful launch of a new Chinese mission to return samples from the Moon, in this blog post reprinted from The Conversation .
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Emma Battell Lowman: Page 2
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/author/ejl22/page/2/
Emma Battell Lowman is Lecturer in the History of the Americas at the University of Hertfordshire and is an Honorary Visiting Fellow in the School of Archaeology and Ancient History where she continues her postdoctoral research as a member of the Harnessing the Criminal...
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Open-air Shakespeare and more planned for summer events at Oadby oasis
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/botanic-garden
The University of Leicester has revealed the annual summer events programme at the Botanic Garden, in Oadby.
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University urges others to support The Big Help Out volunteer drive
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/big-help-out
A major Leicester institution with a proud history of supporting communities has thrown its weight behind a nationwide volunteering project which marks the Coronation of His Majesty the King.
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Are employees who revolt against their managers always ‘snakes’?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/03/11/are-employees-who-revolt-against-their-managers-always-snakes/
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on March 11, 2017 In his second blog on the theme, ULSB PhD student Rasim Kurdoglu explores the recent sacking of Leicester City’s manager and the suggestion that this was caused by a player revolt.