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University of Leicester lecturer wins Global Space Award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/lecturer-global-space-award
Dr Beatriz Sanchez-Cano recognised for her leadership of the Mars Magnetosphere Atmosphere Ionosphere and Space-weather Science (M-MATTISSE) mission
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Japanese space companies explore collaborating with the UK at Space Park Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/japanese-space-companies-collaborating-space-park-leicester
Representatives from seven innovative Japanese start-ups visited Space Park Leicester as part of the J-StarX SpaceTech Acceleration Programme.
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Research group including University of Leicester astronomers receives one of the world’s largest research prizes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/astronomers-world-largest-research-prize
ENGRAVE group, which includes University of Leicester researchers, recognised with inaugural Into Change Award, worth DKK 8 million and awarded by...
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Perpetual Atomics and QSA Global achieve breakthrough in americium ceramic fuel pelleting for space power systems
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/perpetual-atomics-qsa-global-americium-ceramic-fuel-pelleting
University spin-out works with QSA Global to develop a ceramic americium pellet via an industrially scalable method that can be directly...
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Successful Arctic expedition establishes new instrument for monitoring climate change
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/arctic-expedition-instrument-monitoring-climate-change
Team from the University of Leicester’s Surface Temperature Group has returned from the Arctic Circle after establishing a validation station on...
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Leicester delegation to COP30 includes experts covering climate from every angle
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/cop30-attendees
A delegation of experts from the University of Leicester is heading to the Conference of the Parties, or COP30, to bring the latest insights into...
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Leicester geologist to present rock-licking trick for Hallowe’en treat at Royal Institution
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/geologist-rock-licking-halloween-royal-institution
Professor Jan Zalasiewicz joins panel at the Royal Institution on 31 October with other winners of Ig Nobel Prizes to explain their winning work...
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Charity shop find is former student’s long-lost compass from University of Leicester days
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/charity-shop-find-alumnus-long-lost-compass
Staff at University of Leicester help to reunite an alumnus with a lost treasure after volunteers at Martock Charity Shop in Somerset discovered a...
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150-million-year post-mortem reveals baby pterosaurs perished in a violent storm
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/150-million-year-post-mortem-baby-pterosaurs-storm
University of Leicester scientists have identified two extraordinary new fossils - tiny prehistoric flying reptiles, pterosaurs, with broken wings
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Leicester PhD student sets her sights on success thanks to award for telescope research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/phd-student-award-telescope-research
Natasha Carr from the University of Leicester’s School of Physics and Astronomy has received the Florence and Johnstone Stoney Award from the...