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Leicester's lampreys and light-show laid out to look at in London
If you can make it down to the capital this weekend you can catch the Royal Society’s 2011 summer exhibition, Science Live, featuring two Leicester-related exhibits.
Festival of Postgraduate Research - Preview no.4
Postgraduate posters from the Departments of Geology, Geography and Chemistry.
A ptotally pterrific pterobranch: amazing Cambrian fossil discovered
Pterobranch? It’s a type of hemichordate. Hemichordate...? Not the most familiar group of animals, for sure, but in evolutionary terms hemichordates are very important. To understand why, we first need to consider chordates – and before that, we need to consider vertebrates…
Five Leicester researchers who SET an example
On 14 March, 60 promising researchers travelled down to the House of Commons to present some of the impressive work that they have begun their careers with for a national poster competition.
Geology student scales new heights in the Fens
Dinah Smith, a mature student in our Department of Geology, has been awarded a prize by the Geologists’ Association for her work on fossilised fenland channels.
Stonehenge: geologists overturn standing theory about the standing stones
It has been around for the best part of 5,000 years and still holds many mysteries but new research into Stonehenge has overturned established ideas about where some of the rocks came from.
