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Sand clouds, water vapour and sulphur dioxide detected on nearby exoplanet using world-leading space telescope
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/jwst-sand-clouds
New study that has discovered ‘sand clouds’ on a planet orbiting a nearby star using James Webb Space Telescope involves University of Leicester space scientist, using the MIRI instrument that University engineers and scientists helped design and develop.
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Medieval Mediterranean
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ar2608
Module code: AR2608 The Mediterranean Sea was a place of encounters and sometimes even clashes between different cultures during the Middle Ages.
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Media features President and Vice-Chancellor speaking on gender equality campaign
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/media-features-president-and-vice-chancellor-speaking-on-gender-equality-campaign
President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle has spoken about Leicester’s involvement in the UN Women’s HeForShe solidarity movement in the media, explaining how it is fitting that the University of Leicester should be chosen among only 10 universities in the world that...
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University at Cheltenham Science Festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/university-at-cheltenham-science-festival
The Department of Physics and Astronomy, in conjunction with the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), is exhibiting at the Cheltenham Science Festival this week from 7 to 12 June 2016.
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Crocus Sundays at the Botanic Garden
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/february/11-crocus-sundays
On 23 February and 1 March the public are invited to visit our Botanic Garden in Oadby for the annual ‘Crocus Sundays’ display of spring flowers. At this time of year the Botanic Garden, one of Leicester’s hidden gems, presents a magnificent spectacle.
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Medieval Mediterranean
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ar2608
Module code: AR2608 The Mediterranean Sea was a place of encounters and sometimes even clashes between different cultures during the Middle Ages.
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Female-line family tree
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/genetics/female-line-family-tree
Every one of us, males and females alike, inherit our mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from our biological mother. However, only females, through birth, can pass this onto subsequent generations.
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Revolutionary England, 1640-1660: Politics, Religion, Ideas
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2339
Module code: HS2339 During the 1640s, England experienced a civil war followed by a revolution, as the victorious parliamentarians executed King Charles I and established a commonwealth.
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Medieval Mediterranean
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar2608
Module code: AR2608 The Mediterranean Sea was a place of encounters and sometimes even clashes between different cultures during the Middle Ages.
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Ravenous black hole consumes three Earths’-worth of star every time it passes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/black-hole
Massive burst of X-rays detected by University of Leicester astronomers indicates material three times the mass of Earth burning up in a black hole.