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• AI experts join drive for safety on UK rail crossings

  Date: 13 Jan 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/ai-level-crossing

  Leicester researchers are lending their artificial intelligence (AI) expertise to a prototype device designed to improve safety on the UK’s rail...

• Britain’s largest ‘Sea Dragon’ discovered in Rutland

  Date: 10 Jan 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/rutland-sea-dragon

  The fossilised remains of Britain’s largest ichthyosaur, colloquially known as a ‘Sea Dragon’, has been discovered at the Rutland Water Nature...

• Leicester alumni recognised in New Year Honours 2022

  Date: 5 Jan 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/new-year-honours

  Outstanding achievements by University of Leicester alumni have been recognised in the New Year’s Honours List for 2022.

• Leicester space scientists celebrate the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope

  Date: 25 Dec 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/jwst-launch

  Space scientists at the University of Leicester are celebrating the launch of the most advanced space observatory ever built.

• Leicester Physics students ‘prove’ Santa’s Christmas magic is REAL

  Date: 21 Dec 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/christmas-magic

  A group of Physics students at the University of Leicester have ‘proved’ that there is such a thing as Santa’s Christmas magic.

• Fossil study sheds light on ancient water-to-land transition

  Date: 6 Dec 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/ostracod

  Palaeobiologists have uncovered the earliest evidence of a major group of marine animals making the transition to estuaries, more than 400 million...

• Tectonic shift in Southern Ocean caused dramatic ancient cooling event

  Date: 24 Nov 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/antarctica-tectonics

  New research has shed light on a sudden cooling event 34 million years ago, which contributed to formation of the Antarctic ice sheets.

• Social stress key to population’s rate of COVID-19 infection, study finds

  Date: 23 Nov 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/covid-19-social-stress

  Mathematicians have analysed global COVID-19 data to identify two constants which can drastically change a country’s rate of infection.

• Major £1.7m funding to clean up Philippines mineral extraction

  Date: 18 Nov 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/promt

  Leicester researchers have been awarded part of a £1.

• Major endorsement for new space mission to find ‘Earth 2.0’

  Date: 9 Nov 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/luvoir

  A major new space telescope searching for ‘Earth 2.