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  • Machine learning reveals clues to improved weather forecasting in our atmosphere

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/weather-patterns

    Inspired by statistical mechanics, scientists co-led by University of Leicester applied algorithms designed to study molecules to atmospheric data and identified patterns in atmospheric fields that give clues to when weather variations will occur

  • The Story of Pulque Part 3: Ritual and Power in Aztec Mexico – University of Leicester

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/07/03/the-story-of-pulque-part-3-ritual-and-power-in-aztec-mexico/

    Project Principal Investigator Deborah Toner describes the importance of pulque in cultural, religious and political terms during the Aztec period in Mexico. Third part of the story of pulque

  • “So, can we say ‘skills’?”

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/06/12/so-can-we-say-skills/

    Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on June 12, 2018   As those whose unhappy lot in life it is to have to listen to me moaning on about matters educational will know, I’m not a big fan of the term ‘skills’.

  • Research Skills Training | Spring Term 2026

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2026/01/09/research-skills-training-spring-term-2026/

    Posted by William Farrell in Library and Learning Services on January 9, 2026 Another term begins, and so too does our research skills training program.

  • Research Skills Training for Autumn 2025

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/09/24/research-skills-training-for-autumn-2025/

    Posted by William Farrell in Library and Learning Services on September 24, 2025 Another term begins, and so too does our research skills training program.

  • Blood clots during COVID-19 may be a cause of ongoing cognitive problems

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/brain-fog

    High levels of two proteins at the time of COVID-19 have been found in patients who later experienced cognitive problems, including ‘brain fog’, giving a major clue as to one cause of their symptoms: blood clots

  • Peter Jackson

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/peter-jackson

    The University has learned, with great sadness, of the death of Professor Peter Jackson, one of the longest serving members of our academic staff. A funeral service for Professor Jackson will be held at 12.

  • Dr. Naomi Rowe-Gurney on taking a Leicester PhD to NASA

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/08/05/dr-naomi-rowe-gurney-on-taking-a-leicester-phd-to-nasa/

    A five-year break in China, a worldwide pandemic, and delays to the most complex space telescope ever built: none of these were enough to stop Naomi Rowe-Gurney breaking new ground to complete her PhD at Leicester and land a dream job with NASA.

  • Leicester to lead development of space instrument

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/leicester-to-lead-development-of-space-instrument

    A space mission called SMILE (Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) which is a joint collaboration between scientists from the UK, Europe, Canada, the US and China, has received the go-ahead for an initial study phase this summer by the European Space Agency...

  • Weight loss drug hope for patients with type 2 diabetes

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/weight-loss-drug-hope

    Patients with type 2 diabetes that were treated with a weekly injection of the breakthrough drug Semaglutide were able to achieve an average weight loss of nearly 10kg, according to a new study published in The Lancet today.

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