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• Ig Nobel Prize-winning geologist on why rocks speak in tongues

  Date: 18 Sep 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/ig-nobel-zalasiewicz

  Professor Jan Zalasiewicz, Emeritus Professor in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, explains the research that won him an Ig...

• International conference on space security and safety to take place at Space Park Leicester

  Date: 12 Sep 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/space-security-conference

  Space Park Leicester will host the international “Space Security and Safety Dimensions” Conference on Thursday September 28 and Friday 29 September.

• New Saturn images show a change of seasons – and a last glimpse of its huge, warm polar vortex

  Date: 12 Sep 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/saturn-autumn-images

  New observations of Saturn by University of Leicester planetary scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of the famous ringed planet

• Leicester academics receive cash boost for pioneering international space partnership

  Date: 11 Sep 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/bahrain-bilateral-fund

  The University of Leicester and Geospatial Insight will receive up to £75,000 to support work on carbon mapping sensors for monitoring greenhouse...

• Future of land management and better landscape decision-making in UK to be showcased

  Date: 6 Sep 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/land-management

  Final conference for five-year Landscape Decisions Programme takes place at the Royal Society on 6 and 7 September is culmination of research into...

• Leicester scientists voyage to Hawai’ian fossil coral reefs to find window into the past and future

  Date: 30 Aug 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/hawaii-expedition-coral

  International expedition off the coast of Hawai’i includes researchers from University of Leicester, with the aim of recovering coral reef fossils...

• Ukraine war realises predictions of nuclear power plant threat, says Leicester civil safety expert

  Date: 29 Aug 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/nuclear-power-plant-ukraine

  As Ukraine conflict continues, new book by University of Leicester researcher argues that nuclear facilities are more likely to be targeted, and...

• Three-eyed distant relative of insects and crustaceans reveals amazing detail of early animal evolution

  Date: 29 Aug 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/kylinxia-fossil-scanning

  Scientists from the University of Leicester and Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology use cutting edge scanning technology to reconstruct...

• Stroke patients’ survival odds could improve thanks to brain bleed research funding

  Date: 25 Aug 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/stroke-lectureship

  The survival chances of stroke patients suffering brain bleeding could be boosted thanks to new research funding secured by the University of...

• Ground-breaking scientific body appoints Leicester professor

  Date: 8 Aug 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/bridges-stfc-board

  Professor of Planetary Science John Bridges has been appointed to the Science Board of the Science Technology Funding Council (STFC), which...