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• Eating fruit may reduce the effects of air pollution on lung function

  Date: 29 Sep 2025

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  Eating fruit may reduce the effects of air pollution on lung function, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society...

• New test could help preserve endangered gibbon populations

  Date: 1 Sep 2025

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  A Leicester geneticist working with ape specialists at Twycross Zoo has developed a test which could help preserve highly vulnerable Gibbon...

• A multidisciplinary team of scientists aim to solve the mystery of magnetoreception

  Date: 6 Jan 2025

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  A significant research grant from the Wellcome Trust will allow a team of researchers to identify the biological mechanisms through which magnetic...

• Entomology fieldtrip turns into a once in a lifetime opportunity

  Date: 4 Jun 2024

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  A Â鶹ÊÓƵ researcher has witnessed a once in a lifetime experience on a trip to the United States.

• Genes for learning and memory are 650 million years old, study shows

  Date: 13 Jul 2023

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  A team of scientists led by researchers from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ have discovered that the genes required for learning, memory, aggression...

• Dr Sarah Gretton named as an Advance HE National Teaching Fellow 2021

  Date: 5 Aug 2021

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  Dr Sarah Gretton, Director of the Natural Sciences programme and institutional lead for Education of Sustainable Development (ESD) at the...

• New space research to survey chimpanzee habitats

  Date: 23 Apr 2021

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  New space research at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ is set to use remote sensing techniques to survey the habitats of endangered chimpanzees in the...

• Fantastic Beasts and Where I Found Them

  Date: 15 Nov 2019

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  Join us for the first in a revamped series of Professorial Inaugural Lectures as Professor Richard Thomas discusses his research into human-animal...

• Minister meets life science and space businesses

  Date: 17 Oct 2018

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  Cabinet Minister Brandon Lewis, was in Leicester today (Thursday 18 October) visiting the Â鶹ÊÓƵ and the National Space Centre,...

• Scholars discuss the formalisation and implications of the Anthropocene

  Date: 4 Sep 2018

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  The Anthropocene Working Group holds meeting at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. Humans have had a large impact on Earth.