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Leicester facility to help optimise hybrid structures for automotive sector
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/leicester-facility-to-help-optimise-hybrid-structures-for-automotive-sector
The ASDEC – The Advanced Structural Dynamics Evaluation Centre – facility has announced that it is part of a successful winning bid for £1.
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Research reveals solar storms trigger Jupiters Northern Lights
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/research-reveals-solar-storms-trigger-jupiter2019s-2018northern-lights2019
Solar storms trigger Jupiter’s intense ‘Northern Lights’ by generating a new X-ray aurora that is eight times brighter than normal and hundreds of times more energetic than Earth’s aurora borealis, finds new research, involving the University of Leicester, using NASA’s...
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Good cholesterol doesnt always lower heart attack risk
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/2018good2019-cholesterol-doesn2019t-always-lower-heart-attack-risk
Some people with high levels of ‘good’ high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) are at increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), contrary to earlier evidence that people with more HDL-C are usually at lower heart disease risk.
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ExoMars rover named after DNA pioneer
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/11-exomars
The ExoMars Rover The ExoMars Rover (courtesy of ESA) 475|The European Space Agency has named its new ExoMars rover Rosalind Franklin, after the DNA pioneer, it has been announced.
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Free public talk on climate change
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/18-climate-change-talk
Climate/atmospheric scientist Katherine Hayhoe famously said that the most important thing you can do (right now) to fight climate change is to talk about it.
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Partners
https://le.ac.uk/literary-leicester/partners
Literary Leicester works with a variety of arts and cultural organisations, charities, and venues.
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Academic to share research on violence and harassment in the digital economy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/academic-to-share-research-on-violence-and-harassment-in-the-digital-economy
The International Labour Organization’s Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV) and the University will launch a new research on psychosocial risks, violence and harassment that workers face in digitalised working environments.
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Dawn of the Anthropocene concept
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/dawn-of-the-anthropocene-concept
Can the Anthropocene concept be traced back to the Comte de Buffon, a famed savant of the ancien régime of France? The evidence is made widely available for the first time with the first full English translation of Buffon’s concise masterpiece The Epochs of Nature,...
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Support our research
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Support Leicester’s world-leading IgAN research - fund posts, fellowships, labs and breakthroughs that bring us closer to a cure for kidney disease.
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Representing gender-based violence: literature, performance and activism in the Anglophone Caribbean
https://le.ac.uk/anglophone-caribbean
Find out about the international, collaborative research project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and running from September 2021 to May 2023.