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• New project investigates sources of rare elements vital for solar power

  Date: 16 Apr 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/new-project-investigates-sources-of-rare-elements-vital-for-solar-power

  University of Leicester scientists are leading an multinational team investigating better ways of recovering key materials for generating solar power.

• Pyramid of Geezers how to assemble a perfect human pyramid

  Date: 14 Apr 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/pyramid-of-geezers

  Physics students have calculated the formula for a perfect human pyramid – and have found that the best suited candidates to achieve maximum...

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 714 April

  Date: 9 Apr 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/talking-points-a-range-of-topics-tackled-by-academics-7-14-april

  Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans from the Centre for Medical Humanities has written an article for The Conversation exploring how it could be a good...

• Richard III experts discuss how the project illustrates university research is changing for the better

  Date: 26 Mar 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/richard-iii-research-team-discuss-how-the-project-illustrates-how-university-research-is-changing

  Experts on Richard III have provided a series of insightful opinion pieces about the last Plantagenet king where they discuss their research,...

• Solar eclipse echoes astronomical events during Richard IIIs time

  Date: 16 Mar 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/solar-eclipse-echoes-astronomical-events-during-richard-iiis-time

  This Friday’s solar eclipse has as much relevance to Ricardians as it does for countless astronomers and stargazers across the globe.

• Stargazing Live 2015 astronomers mark solar eclipse

  Date: 11 Mar 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/astronomers-to-shed-light-on-space-discoveries-to-mark-spectacular-solar-eclipse

  Our space scientists will be taking part in a spectacular event to mark the solar eclipse on 20 March by demonstrating some of their...

• Could human beings one day live on Mars

  Date: 11 Mar 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/could-human-beings-one-day-live-on-mars

  The Mars One Mission hopes to create a human settlement on Mars by the year 2025 allowing people to live on the Red Planet, albeit in an enclosed...

• Local schoolchildren to board a steam train in the name of science

  Date: 10 Mar 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/local-schoolchildren-to-board-a-steam-train-in-the-name-of-science

  Schoolchildren from the East Midlands will be jumping on board a steam train on Friday 13 March to perform a classic science experiment as part of...

• UK climate instruments to measure fluctuations in greenhouse gas levels

  Date: 6 Mar 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/uk-climate-instruments-hitch-a-ride-on-nasa2019s-global-hawk

  Two cutting-edge science instruments developed by UK researchers have taken to the skies aboard NASA’s Global Hawk research aircraft for the first...

• Assassins Creed may give gamers a gripping sense of vertigo but its leaping calculations are optimistic at best

  Date: 25 Feb 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/the-science-of-assassins-creed

  The popular video game franchise 'Assassin’s Creed' often depicts characters leaping off tall buildings into piles of loose hay or straw lying on...