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Leicester team visits Mexico to test deforestation detection by satellites
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/leicester-team-visits-mexico-to-test-deforestation-detection-by-satellites
A team of researchers led by Professor Heiko Balzter (pictured, left) from the Department of Geography and accompanied by Roselin Rodríguez García, Technical Co-ordinator of the GEF-Ambio El Ocote Conservation Project, visited Mexico in February as part of a UK...
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Immunity, Infection and Chronic Disease
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/mb7309
Module code: MB7309 In spite of important advances over the past half century in combating infectious diseases, they remain a major challenge for humanity, especially because of the emergence of previously undescribed pathogens such as HIV, SARS, and H5N1, the increasing...
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How hungry bacteria sense nutrients in their environment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/how-hungry-bacteria-sense-nutrients-in-their-environment
Researchers have shed new light on how bacteria sense nutrients in their environment - which could provide important knowledge in the development of drugs and antibiotics to combat a range of diseases including tuberculosis.
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Cognitive Horizons: Exploring brain and cognition
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ps3107
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Social and Cultural Theory
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/sy7037
Module code: SY7037 This module offers you an opportunity to gain an appreciation and deeper understanding of the topics that are prominent in the fields of sociological research and the social, political, cultural and economic issues that underpin them.
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Cognitive Horizons: Exploring brain and cognition
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ps3107
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Social and Cultural Theory
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/sy7037
Module code: SY7037 This module offers you an opportunity to gain an appreciation and deeper understanding of the topics that are prominent in the fields of sociological research and the social, political, cultural and economic issues that underpin them.
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Urban History Resource Hub
https://le.ac.uk/urban-history/resources/urban-history-resource-hub
A American Geographical Society Library (AGSL) - library and map collection of the American Geographical Society (AGS) of New York. Includes several digital collections of importance to urban history.
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A small but highly significant step for Britain in space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/a-small-but-highly-significant-step-for-britain-in-space
Professor Ken Pounds (pictured), Emeritus Professor of Space Physics and a local pioneer of Space Research, has hailed the significance of Tim Peake becoming the first British astronaut in orbit, but warned there is so far no funding beyond his present mission on...
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Scientists discover prehistoric Kite Runner
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/scientists-discover-prehistoric-2018kite-runner2019
Scientists have discovered an ancient animal that carried its young in pouches or capsules tethered to the parent’s body like tiny, swirling kites. The miniscule creature, Aquilonifer spinosus, was an arthropod that lived about 430 million years ago.