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University celebrates a beauti-fall AutumnFest at the Botanic Garden
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/autumn
More than 1,800 people came together at the Botanic Garden on Saturday (30 September) to celebrate the University’s inaugural AutumnFest
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First delivery to our University of high-tech glass plates to be used to discover the birth of new black holes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/first-delivery-to-our-university-of-high-tech-glass-plates-to-be-used-to-discover-the-birth-of-new-black-holes
Our University is providing a new type of X-ray mirror to the French space agency, CNES, for the Chinese-French satellite ‘SVOM’ which is designed to discover and study Gamma-Ray Bursts from newly formed black holes.
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Revisit historic discoveries as University of Leicester Archaeological Services celebrates thirty years
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/university-leicester-archaeological-services-celebrates-thirty-years
University of Leicester’s archaeological unit was established in July 1995, and staff will be hosting talks on discoveries from throughout its history as part of the Festival of Archaeology
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PhD researcher developing technique to estimate biomass and carbon more efficiently
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/phd-researcher-to-further-develop-technique-to-estimate-biomass-and-carbon-more-efficiently
With climate change a pressing issue, measuring carbon in forests and understanding how efficiently carbon is stored is increasingly vital.
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What do grasshoppers eat? It’s not just grass! New Leicester research shows similarities with mammal teeth like never before
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/grasshopper-mandibles
But analysis of the ecological importance of grasshoppers is not straightforward, and finding out what they eat requires detailed study of the contents of their guts or painstaking and time-consuming observations of how they feed in the wild. There is, however, a better way.
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Most distant detection of a black hole swallowing a star
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/black-hole-swallowing-star
A University of Leicester astronomer has led an international team that determined the distance of the furthest black hole consuming a star detected to date.
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Work for Us
https://le.ac.uk/mcb/about/work
If you are interested in joining one of the world's leading research intensive universities to deliver significant and transformative advances in a wide range of areas of Structural and Chemical Biology, Cell Proliferation and Differentiation, Regulation of gene...
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Leicester academics called on to help advance space science in Europe
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/usra
University of Leicester is one of only nine European universities in the Universities Space Research Association's newly established European region called Region X (10)
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First World War remembered
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/first-world-war
With the support of Leicester Arts and Museums Services and the University of Leicester, over 300 interviews with those who lived through WWI in Leicestershire have been edited into sound clips and created into a collection. Find out more.
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Peatland protection
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/sustaining-world/peatland-protection
Peatlands around the world are being destroyed to make way for plantation development, logging and mining.