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• 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...

• University of Leicester champions role of humanities in space sector

  Date: 12 Oct 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/humanising-space

  A pioneering series of seminars showcasing humanities, social science and arts research within the space sector will be hosted by the University...

• Core values: the geoscientists searching for climate answers beneath the ocean floor

  Date: 10 Oct 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/hawaii-coral-geoscience

  Two geoscientists from the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment are on a voyage to unearth the hidden history within Hawai’ian fossil...

• Ig Nobel Prize-winning geologist on why rocks speak in tongues

  Date: 18 Sep 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/ig-nobel-zalasiewicz

  Professor Jan Zalasiewicz, Emeritus Professor in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, explains the research that won him an Ig...