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  • Talking points a range of topics tackled by academics this week

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/wolf-hall-thomas-more-and-the-turks

    Professor Norman Housley from the School of History has written an article about the BBC drama 'Wolf Hall', which portrays aspects of Tudor life,...

  • Tempest rocket to map quality of the air we breathe

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/tempest-rocket-to-map-quality-of-the-air-we-breathe

    In what is thought to be a world’s first, a rocket equipped with air pollution monitoring equipment developed by University scientists from the...

  • Researchers trial system for improved sea safety

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/researchers-trial-system-for-improved-sea-safety

    Dr Nigel Bannister from the Department of Physics and Astronomy has been trialling a concept for using satellite imagery to significantly improve...

  • Leicester professor judges space travel competition

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/leicester-professor-judges-space-travel-competition

    Professor Alan Wells, Emeritus Professor and Founding Director of the University’s Space Research Centre is playing a lead role in a global...

  • Beagle 2 lander found on Mars

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/beagle-2-lander-found-on-mars

    The UK-led Beagle 2 was due to land on Mars on 25 December 2003. The spacecraft was ejected from Mars Express on 19 December 2003.

  • Researchers identify July 16 1945 as key time boundary in the history of the Earth

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/researchers-identify-july-16-1945-as-key-time-boundary-in-the-history-of-the-earth

    Humans are having such a significant impact on the Earth that they are changing its geology, creating new and distinctive strata that will persist...

  • New Exoplanet-hunting Telescopes worked on by Leicester scientists

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/new-exoplanet-hunting-telescopes-worked-on-by-leicester-scientists

    A new project involving University scientists will search for transiting exoplanets — planets that pass in front of their parent star and hence...

  • Royal Society picture portraits of eminent scientists

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/royal-society-picture-portraits-for-eminent-scientists

    Two leading University scientists, Professors Ken Pounds and Stan Cowley from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, have been photographed by...
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