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Keeping calm during exam season
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/keeping-calm-during-exam-season
The Students’ Union are laying on a full programme of exciting events for the upcoming weeks to help students stay calm and relaxed as exam season approaches.
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About the School of Biological Sciences
https://le.ac.uk/biological-sciences/about
Learn more about the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Leicester. This school, which is part of the College of Life Sciences, is globally recognised for excellence in genetics.
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Research student helps reopen Lincoln Castles longclosed prison
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/research-student-helps-reopen-lincoln-castle2019s-long-closed-prison
Work by a PhD student that will bring a Victorian Prison back to life has received a royal seal of approval.
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Assassins Creed may give gamers a gripping sense of vertigo but its leaping calculations are optimistic at best
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/the-science-of-assassins-creed
The popular video game franchise 'Assassin’s Creed' often depicts characters leaping off tall buildings into piles of loose hay or straw lying on the ground or in a cart, by diving head first then executing a half-summersault to land on their back.
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Responsible consumption
https://le.ac.uk/sustainability/impacts/responsible-consumption
Learn how we are reducing our resource and water consumption, and reusing resources whenever possible, incorporating circular economy principles.
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Evaluating MedRACE in my year 5 SSC project
https://le.ac.uk/cls/cls-equality/medrace/medrace-voices/ese-oyokose
Ese Oyokose describes how she evaluated MedRACE as a year 5 SSC project
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Leicester contribution to major Parliamentary report
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/space-defence
A leading expert in space warfare based at the University of Leicester has contributed to a new Parliamentary report on defence of the UK’s assets in space.
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New report finds nuclear weapons and related systems are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/28-nuclear-report
Report involving Dr Andrew Futter finds nuclear weapon increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack
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Homosexuality – is it still considered a disease?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/26/homosexuality-is-it-still-considered-a-disease/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2015 Controversy continues concerning the WHO stance towards homosexuality.
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Protecting sex workers
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/social-justice/sex-workers
In considering sex work, police and health practitioners have focused on ‘the street’ as the main location for sex workers. However, in the 21st century the sex industry has changed enormously, and today most commercial sex work happens online.