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• Santa’s sleigh flies with the power of the Apollo mission rocket

  Date: 16 Dec 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/santa-sleigh-engine

  Santa’s sleigh would require equivalent thrust to that produced by the Saturn V rocket or 150 Boeing 747-400 engines, University of Leicester...

• University of Leicester commits to reverse biodiversity decline through worldwide Nature Positive Universities Alliance

  Date: 8 Dec 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/nature-positive

  The University of Leicester has been announced as one of the founding members of the Nature Positive Universities Alliance, continuing its...

• Sharpest Earth-based images of Europa and Ganymede reveal their icy landscape

  Date: 10 Oct 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/europa-and-ganymede

  University of Leicester scientists and European Southern Observatory release new images of Jupiter’s moons taken from a ground-based telescope.

• Leicester maths graduates awarded fellowships with National Institute for Health and Care Research

  Date: 15 Aug 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/rahma-mahfuza-nihr

  Two University of Leicester graduates have been awarded fellowships with the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).

• Rotting fish help solve mystery of how soft tissue fossils form

  Date: 8 Aug 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/fish-ph-fossils

  New research at the University of Leicester has transformed scientists’ understanding of how spectacular fossils with delicate soft tissues form.

• Major grant and awards recognition for electronic waste recycling solution

  Date: 3 Aug 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/ewaste-award

  An electronic waste-recycling process that’s kinder to the planet – and uses pioneering technology developed at the University of Leicester – has...

• River researcher awarded prestigious Fulbright Scholarship

  Date: 3 Aug 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/fulbright-rivers

  A Leicester expert in river systems has been awarded a prestigious scholarship to expand her research in the USA.

• New telescope to be the ‘GOTO’ for gravitational wave events

  Date: 21 Jul 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/goto

  Leicester space scientists will contribute to a huge new telescope, made up of identical arrays on opposite sides of the planet, to track down...

• Space data tracks record-breaking UK heatwave

  Date: 18 Jul 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/nceo-hottest-day

  Earth Observation (EO) experts based at the University of Leicester have laid bare the UK’s record-breaking heatwave with data captured from space.

• Ground-breaking view of the cosmos revealed at Space Park Leicester

  Date: 13 Jul 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/jwst-first-light

  Astounding images telling the story of a hidden universe through every phase of its cosmic history have been revealed for the first time at Space...