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UK’s poorest students set to benefit most from university redesign
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/august/poorest-students
Young people from the poorest parts of the UK are primed to benefit most as universities scramble to offer safe education as they emerge from the COVID-19 lockdown.
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Changing the face of British sport governance
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/12-sporting-equals
Sporting Equals and the University of Leicester are partners in a New LeaderBoard Academy in Sports Governance
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Student nurses scoop prestigious awards
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/nursing-times-awards-leicester
Student Nurses Daud Malida and Lily Scott, from the University of Leicester, have won Student Nursing Times Awards
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Breakthrough in fuel cell recycling turns ‘forever chemicals’ into renewable resources
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/breakthrough-fuel-cell-recycling-forever-chemicals-renewable
University of Leicester scientists develop technique using soundwaves to separate materials in fuel cells in seconds
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Leicester researchers shed new light on extragalactic event
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/researchers-shed-light-extragalactic-event
University of Leicester scientists discover that a Fast X-ray Transient (FXT) called EP250108a is the result of a massive star exploding.
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Baby pterodactyls could fly from birth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/12-baby-pterodactyls-flying-from-birth
A breakthrough discovery has found that pterodactyls, extinct flying reptiles also known as pterosaurs, had a remarkable ability – they could fly from birth.
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Rapid spread of a meningitis bacteria linked to hypermutable sequences helping avoidance of the immune system
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/26-meningitis-bacteria-spread-avoidance-immune-system
An enhanced potential to avoid the human immune system has been found in recent serogroup W isolates of Neisseria meningitidis by University of Leicester researchers, which may explain in part why the strain spread so rapidly among young people in 2013.
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Worlds collide: University of Leicester experts to help upgrade Large Hadron Collider experiment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/leicester-experts-upgrade-large-hadron-collider-experiment
Expertise from Leicester in particle detectors to contribute to next upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment, thought to be the first time Leicester scientists are working directly on instrumentation for the world’s largest particle accelerator
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What makes some people simply able to carry on in the face of adversity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/what-makes-some-people-simply-able-to-2018carry-on2019-in-the-face-of-adversity
The ability to ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ could explain why some people suffer less depression and anxiety when faced with adversity, research has discovered.
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Ancient skeleton provides the earliest evidence of a pet cat in Kazakhstan
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/cat-skull
Uncovered in an urban settlement in Dzhankent, Kazakhstan, the analysis of the ancient animal skeleton shows this to be the first domesticated cat (Felis catus) found in the region.