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• 150-million-year post-mortem reveals baby pterosaurs perished in a violent storm

  Date: 5 Sep 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/150-million-year-post-mortem-baby-pterosaurs-storm

  University of Leicester scientists have identified two extraordinary new fossils - tiny prehistoric flying reptiles, pterosaurs, with broken wings

• GBBO finalist Josh to judge public’s attempts to turn science into cake

  Date: 5 Sep 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/gbbo-finalist-josh-judge-public-science-cake

  Dr Josh Smalley will judge a national baking contest run by the Medical Research Foundation

• Leicester PhD student sets her sights on success thanks to award for telescope research

  Date: 19 Aug 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/phd-student-award-telescope-research

  Natasha Carr from the University of Leicester’s School of Physics and Astronomy has received the Florence and Johnstone Stoney Award from the...

• Leicester geoscientists return from expedition following successful offshore operations

  Date: 8 Aug 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/geoscientists-expedition-successful-offshore-operations

  International expedition off the coast of New England (Massachusetts, USA) included researchers from the University of Leicester, aiming to...

• Leicester space experts drive forward mission to find habitable worlds

  Date: 8 Aug 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/space-experts-mission-find-habitable-worlds

  Professor Martin Barstow is leading a consortium developing a UK instrument contribution to the the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO).

• Bake Off and Gardeners’ World stars top the bill at Leicester festival

  Date: 1 Aug 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/bake-off-gardeners-world-stars-leicester-festival

  Stars from Gardeners’ World and The Great British Bake Off top the bill of a family friendly festival taking place in Leicester.

• World’s largest tropical peatlands revealed to be more than 40,000 years old

  Date: 31 Jul 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/largest-tropical-peatlands-40000-years-old

  New research finds peatland complex in Congo Basin to be more than twice as old as previously thought, expertise from the University of Leicester...

• Silent witnesses: corals pinpoint the start of deforestation in Borneo

  Date: 3 Jul 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/corals-pinpoint-deforestation-borneo

  University of Leicester scientists analyse the chemical composition of corals to spot the signs of deforestation, filling a huge gap in...

• Leicester astronomers play key role in groundbreaking movie of the cosmos by new observatory

  Date: 23 Jun 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/astronomers-groundbreaking-movie-cosmos-new-observatory

  The decade-long wait for UK astronomers ends as the NSF–DOE Vera C.

• Tree rings reveal increasing rainfall seasonality in the Amazon

  Date: 16 Jun 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/tree-rings-increasing-rainfall-seasonality-amazon

  Study involving University of Leicester researcher shows intensified seasonal cycles, with wet seasons are getting wetter and dry seasons drier,...