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• UK scientific expertise supports first high-resolution fossil coral record of environmental data off Hawai’i

  Date: 22 Feb 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/hawaii-coral

  UK-based scientist from the University of St Andrews and scientific operators from the British Geological Survey and the University of Leicester...

• Fossil fuel burning leaves its mark in Mediterranean corals

  Date: 8 Feb 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/coral-pollutant

  New study involving the University of Leicester identifies carbon particles emitted by burning fossil fuels embedded in corals

• New species of Jurassic pterosaur discovered on the Isle of Skye

  Date: 7 Feb 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/pterosaur-ceoptera

  Team including University of Leicester palaeontologist have studied a fossil that suggests the flying reptiles developed earlier and were more...

• Leading light in auroras to give prestigious astronomy lecture

  Date: 12 Jan 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/provan-aurora-lecture

  Dr Gabrielle Provan from the University of Leicester is to give the Royal Astronomical Society’s James Dungey Lecture, focusing on the auroral...

• £2.6 million centre to train mineral resources experts for a new generation

  Date: 9 Jan 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/target-minerals-postgraduate

  Training and Research Group for Energy Transition Mineral Resources (TARGET) to be led by University of Leicester with universities, research...

• Explosion-hunting telescope tested by Leicester space scientists ready for launch

  Date: 8 Jan 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/einstein-probe-leicester

  University of Leicester experts tested optics for the Einstein Probe, led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

• £1.5m funding to create ‘Digital Twin’ model to reduce methane emissions

  Date: 4 Dec 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/methane-tropical-wetlands

  A ‘Digital Twin’ for methane emissions from tropical wetlands will be supported by funding to Dr Robert Parker from the University of Leicester...

• Uranus aurora discovery offers clues to habitable icy worlds

  Date: 26 Oct 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/uranus-aurora

  University of Leicester astronomers confirm the existence of an infrared (IR) aurora on Uranus, providing insights into how magnetic field on ice...

• Bizarre new fossils shed light on ancient plankton

  Date: 25 Oct 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/fossils-plankton

  Microfossils discovered by University of Leicester scientist date back half a billion years.

• ‘Fizzy pop’ process reveals copper-rich volcanoes

  Date: 20 Oct 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/volcano

  Identifying magmas that experience the same process that makes fizzy drinks ‘bubbly’ has been used by a team of University of Leicester geologists...