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• Research reveals earliest evidence yet of huge hippos in Britain

  Date: 4 Oct 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/hippo-fossil

  Palaeobiologists have unearthed the earliest evidence yet of hippos in the UK.

• First glimpse of Mercury for BepiColombo

  Date: 28 Sep 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/bepicolombo-mercury

  The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury, carrying instrumentation created with Leicester expertise, will make the first of six flybys of its...

• Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award honour for Dr Suzie Imber

  Date: 24 Aug 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/suzie-imber-rosalind-franklin

  Dr Suzanne (Suzie) Imber, Associate Professor in Space Physics at the University of Leicester has been named as this year’s recipient of the...

• New Leicester schools scheme to open space aspirations

  Date: 18 Aug 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/open-space

  A new University of Leicester scheme, backed by the UK Space Agency, will enhance STEM skills for primary schoolchildren across Leicester,...

• Sea levels influence eruptions on Santorini

  Date: 2 Aug 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/santorini

  The rise and fall of sea levels influence the likelihood of volcanic eruptions on the Greek island of Santorini, new research published in Nature...

• Leicester scientists look to Venus for close-range BepiColombo flyby

  Date: 23 Jul 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/bepicolombo-venus

  Planetary scientists at the University of Leicester are braced for a flood of new data from one of the closest-ever flybys of Venus.

• Royal Society Summer Science festival set to inspire next generation of space scientists

  Date: 29 Jun 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/exploring-mars

  Space experts from the University of Leicester will look to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers with a series of live events...

• Astronomers look ahead to first light from JWST

  Date: 24 May 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/jwst-time-allocation

  Leicester space scientists will join a group of global experts investigating fundamental questions about our Universe, after being granted time to...

• Leicester space scientist receives prestigious Ernest Rutherford Fellowship

  Date: 26 Apr 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/stfc-fellowship

  A space scientist from the University of Leicester has been identified as a science leader of the future by the Science and Technology Facilities...

• Scientists deliver world-first lobster X-ray telescope mirror

  Date: 16 Apr 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/svom-satellite-lobster-mirror

  Space scientists at the University of Leicester have delivered a completely new type of super-lightweight X-ray telescope mirror to study the...