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• The curse of zombie fossils

  Date: 19 Mar 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/the-curse-of-zombie-fossils

  New research has revealed how the history of life can be distorted by the ways animals decompose and lose body parts as they decay - and the ways...

• When does colder mean hotter

  Date: 27 Feb 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/explaining-the-increasing-temperature-of-cooling-granular-gases

  Professor Nikolai Brilliantov from our Department of Mathematics has developed a theory to explain ‘heating by cooling’, where the temperature of...

• Space Technologies to help protect communities and the environment

  Date: 8 Feb 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/space-technologies-to-help-protect-communities-and-the-environment-1

  Multi-million pound funding for world-class research at our University, to use space technologies to help herders in Mongolia and monitor tropical...

• Leicester part of partnership bringing world-class expertise to benefit patients and populations

  Date: 7 Feb 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/leicester-part-of-partnership-bringing-world-class-expertise-to-benefit-patients-and-populations

  Health Data Research UK is awarding £30 million funding to six sites across the UK - including our University - to address challenging healthcare...

• Expert opinions cover trust within cultures colour the Anthropocene and more

  Date: 31 Jan 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/expert-opinions-cover-brexit-zimbabwe-trust-within-cultures-and-more

  Professor Jo Brewis from our School of Business has explored the ways in which the gig economy is providing an insidious new means for women to be...

• Geological Society of London honour for geology professor

  Date: 30 Jan 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/geological-society-of-london-honour-for-geology-professor

  Jan Zalasiewicz (pictured), Professor of Palaeobiology at our School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, has been awarded the Prestwich...

• University graduate involved in discovery of rare 450 million yearold coneshaped fossil

  Date: 23 Jan 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/university-graduate-involved-in-discovery-of-rare-450-million-year-old-2018cone-shaped2019-fossil

  Researchers from our University, working with an international team of geologists, have discovered an enigmatic fossil of a 450 million year-old...

• Scientists home in on a potential Anthropocene Golden Spike in new research

  Date: 4 Jan 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/scientists-home-in-on-a-potential-anthropocene-2018golden-spike2019-in-new-research

  The international working group, which includes geologists Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams and Colin Waters, from our School of Geography, Geology...

• New research blows the lid on volcanic activity

  Date: 11 Dec 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/new-research-blows-the-lid-on-volcanic-activity

  Geologists from our University have been unravelling an age-old geological story.

• Leicester mathematicians working with geoscientists from Weatherford give the possibility to see structures deeply in the Earth

  Date: 29 Nov 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/leicester-mathematicians-working-with-geoscientists-from-weatherford-give-the-possibility-to-see-structures-deeply-in-the-earth

  Mathematicians from our Department of Mathematics and geologists from Weatherford, which provides technologies and services to the oil and gas...