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  • Prehistoric penis worms shed light on ocean ecology half a billion years ago

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/prehistoric-2018penis-worms2019-shed-light-on-ocean-ecology-half-a-billion-years-ago

    Dr Tom Harvey from the Department of Geology has been involved in a study along with researchers at the University of Cambridge into Ottoia, a type of phallic-shaped ‘penis worm’ – and has helped to identify that the creature used a bizarre set of teeth to drag itself across...

  • Call to avoid type 2 diabetes made during national campaign to prevent condition

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/call-to-avoid-type-2-made-during-national-campaign-to-prevent-condition

    A Leicester man with type 2 diabetes is urging people to do all they can to prevent being diagnosed with the condition which could potentially have “ruined his life”. Patrick Quinn was diagnosed with the condition that is usually associated with poor lifestyle in 2014.

  • Astrophysics Seminar Wednesday 15th Dec, 3pm (POSTPONED from 8th Dec)

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/12/06/astrophysics-seminar-wednesday-8th-dec-3pm/

    Posted by ab520 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 6 December 2021 This week’s seminar will be by Rowan Smith (Manchester), on  “The Cloud Factory: resolving star formation in its galactic context” Abstract: I present suites of simulations that resolve individual molecular...

  • SVOM Integration of Leicester’s MXT Optics

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/06/30/svom-integration-of-leicesters-mxt-optics/

    SVOM Integration of Leicester's MXT Optics

  • Seminar archive

    https://le.ac.uk/miv/seminar-series

    Find out more about the upcoming seminars held by m:iv Leicester.

  • Postgraduate programme specification content for 'with industry' programme variants

    https://le.ac.uk/study/postgraduates/courses/industry

    This page details the University’s standard specification for PGT ‘with industry’ programme variants and should be read in conjunction with the relevant programme specification. Type of study The full-time taught modules and project are campus based.

  • A chance to talk about gibbeting and hanging in France? Yes, please! By Emma Battell Lowman

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/02/22/parlons-du-gibbet-en-france/

    Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on February 22, 2016   One of the joys of academic work is participating in study days or workshops that bring together a diverse group of scholars to approach a theme or issue from multiple vantage.

  • Scientists explore complex pattern of tipping points in the Atlantic’s current system

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/atlantic-tipping-points

    New mathematical modelling by University of Leicester of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation – a system of ocean currents – shows greater complexity than previously thought, revealing a hierarchy of irreversible ‘tipping points’

  • Obituary: Sir Michael Atiyah

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/14-obituary-sir-michael-atiyah

    Sir Michael Atiyah, who was widely regarded as Britain’s greatest mathematician, has died aged 89. Sir Michael was Chancellor of the University of Leicester between 1995 and 2005.

  • Cosmic blast hunter SVOM to launch with optimal optics from Leicester

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/svom-mxt

    Mission to find gamma ray bursts is latest to use technology from University of Leicester in x-ray optics

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