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• James Webb Space Telescope’s coolest instrument captures first star

  Date: 28 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/miri-first-image

  The UK’s main contribution to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), has now opened its eye to the sky.

• Leicester to host first UK screening of acclaimed documentary

  Date: 25 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/salt-in-my-soul

  The University of Leicester will host the first UK screening of an internationally-acclaimed documentary telling the story of a young woman’s...

• Nuclear expert cautions against unfamiliar new nuclear age

  Date: 22 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/nuclear-technologies

  High-tech advances in weapons technologies and a return of ‘great power nuclear politics’, risk the world ‘sleepwalking’ into a nuclear age vastly...

• Stop the clocks: Brisk walking may slow biological ageing process, study shows

  Date: 20 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/walking-speed-ageing

  A new study of genetic data published today (Wednesday) of more than 400,000 UK adults has revealed a clear link between walking pace and a...

• Urgent action required to protect world’s coral reefs from disappearing within three decades, warn experts

  Date: 15 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/coral-reefs

  An international team of environmental scientists have published a series of significant recommendations to protect, conserve and study the...

• Research reveals human-driven changes to distinctive foraging patterns in North Pacific Ocean

  Date: 14 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/albatross-foraging

  The first large-scale study of its kind has uncovered more than 4,000 years’ worth of distinctive foraging behaviour in a species once driven to...

• Leicester space scientists celebrate milestone moment for James Webb Space Telescope

  Date: 14 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/miri-cooldown

  The cooling down of the UK’s main contribution to the James Webb Space Telescope has been hailed as a milestone moment by its creators at the...

• Difficult Conversations: Public panel to tackle topic of nuclear conflict

  Date: 12 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/difficult-conversations-nuclear-weapons

  A leading international relations expert has warned of the danger of ‘alarmism’ around nuclear weapons ahead of a public panel discussion.

• Neptune is cooler than we thought: Study reveals unexpected changes in atmospheric temperatures

  Date: 11 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/neptune-temperature

  New research led by space scientists at the University of Leicester has revealed how temperatures in Neptune’s atmosphere have unexpectedly...

• Leicester space pioneers return to unveil new Space Research Centre

  Date: 6 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/space-research-centre

  Two of Leicester’s first space scientists have returned to open the region’s state-of-the-art Space Research Centre, more than 60 years on.