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• ‘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...

• New Saturn images show a change of seasons – and a last glimpse of its huge, warm polar vortex

  Date: 12 Sep 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/saturn-autumn-images

  New observations of Saturn by University of Leicester planetary scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of the famous ringed planet

• Leicester scientists voyage to Hawai’ian fossil coral reefs to find window into the past and future

  Date: 30 Aug 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/hawaii-expedition-coral

  International expedition off the coast of Hawai’i includes researchers from University of Leicester, with the aim of recovering coral reef fossils...

• Three-eyed distant relative of insects and crustaceans reveals amazing detail of early animal evolution

  Date: 29 Aug 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/kylinxia-fossil-scanning

  Scientists from the University of Leicester and Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology use cutting edge scanning technology to reconstruct...

• Spaceport voyage inspires University of Leicester’s ‘galactic scholars’

  Date: 9 Aug 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/virgin-galactic-scholarships

  University of Leicester physics students travel to Spaceport America, the home of Virgin Galactic in New Mexico supported by a Galactic Unite...

• Study finds plastic is changing the behaviour of the world’s river sediment

  Date: 25 Jul 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/catherine-russell

  A University of Leicester expert has led a study which has found plastic pollution is changing the way riverbeds behave.

• Explore new worlds with Leicester space scientists at National Space Centre’s UK in Space Festival

  Date: 26 Jun 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/space-festival-nsc

  University of Leicester researchers will join experts at a National Space Centre event for space enthusiasts of all ages.