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• Space School celebrates 30 years since launch

  Date: 24 Jul 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/25-space-school-30-years

  Space School UK is celebrating its 30th anniversary in July 2019, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landings.

• Leicester Professor to lead UK Space Science Strategy

  Date: 24 Jul 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/25-martin-barstow-uksa

  Professor Martin Barstow has been appointed as Chair of the UK Space Agency’s Science Programme Advisory Committee, leading the UK's approach to...

• Space Park Leicester receives £13.75 million meteoric boost from Government

  Date: 9 Jul 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/10-ukrpif-announcement-meteor-funding

  The University of Leicester is delighted to announce that its new Manufacturing, Engineering, Technology and Earth Observation Research Centre...

• Astronomers see “warm” glow of Uranus’s rings

  Date: 20 Jun 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/21-uranus-rings-alma-vlt

  The rings of Uranus are invisible to all but the largest telescopes — they weren’t even discovered until 1977 — and they stand out as surprisingly...

• Baby pterodactyls could fly from birth

  Date: 11 Jun 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/12-baby-pterodactyls-flying-from-birth

  A breakthrough discovery has found that pterodactyls, extinct flying reptiles also known as pterosaurs, had a remarkable ability – they could fly...

• Leicester academic speaks at the CIPD Festival of Work

  Date: 10 Jun 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/11-phoebe-moore-festival-of-work

  Dr Phoebe V.

• Modelling reveals new insight into the electrical conductivity of ionic liquids

  Date: 5 Jun 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/06-ionic-liquids-relay-race

  A collaborative investigation has revealed new insight into how room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) conduct electricity, which may have a great...

• The ‘Forbidden Planet’ has been found in the Neptunian Desert

  Date: 29 May 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/30-new-exoplanet-neptune-forbidden-planet

  New research by an international group of researchers, including Dr Matt Burleigh and Dr Emma Longstaff of the Department of Physics and Astronomy...

• Physics students take off

  Date: 6 May 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/07-norway-space-students

  David Jessop, Jamie Macquillin and Lewis Jackson were selected for the trip alongside 20 other students from across Europe.

• Revealing branching time in single-cell omics data

  Date: 6 May 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/07-revealing-branching-time-mathematics

  New single-cell omics technology allows scientists to analyse cell development in ways that were not previously possible.