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• Tempest rocket to map quality of the air we breathe

  Date: 2 Feb 2015

  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...

• IBM to create first UK services centre in Leicester

  Date: 30 Jan 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/ibm-to-create-first-uk-services-centre-in-leicester

  The University of Leicester has played an important role in securing the move of global information technology company IBM to the city.

• Researchers trial system for improved sea safety

  Date: 30 Jan 2015

  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

  Date: 28 Jan 2015

  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

  Date: 15 Jan 2015

  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

  Date: 15 Jan 2015

  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

  Date: 14 Jan 2015

  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

  Date: 9 Jan 2015

  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...