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  • Calcium is key to age-related memory loss

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/09-presynaptic-calcium

    Research in our Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour is offering new clues into how and why cognitive functions such as memory and learning become impaired with age.

  • Lines of descent

    https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/genetics/lines-of-descent

    DNA analysis of the Greyfriars bones was crucial to confirming their identity as those of Richard III. But that analysis would be meaningless without something for comparison.

  • Leicester scientists celebrate anniversary of game-changing satellite

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/swift-anniversary

    The University of Leicester celebrates 20 years of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which it developed key technology for continues to lead the UK’s data analysis efforts

  • Ribbon wraps up mystery of Jupiters magnetic equator

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/ribbon2019-wraps-up-mystery-of-jupiter2019s-magnetic-equator

    The discovery of a dark ribbon of weak hydrogen ion emissions that encircles Jupiter has overturned previous thinking about the giant planet’s magnetic equator.

  • New carbon-monitoring satellite will shed light on photosynthesis thanks to Leicester scientists

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/microcarb-carbon-monitoring-satellite-photosynthesis

    An algorithm designed by scientists at the University of Leicester and National Centre for Earth Observation, based at Space Park Leicester, will allow the MicroCarb mission to observe solar induced fluorescence (SIF) – a by-product and indicator of plant photosynthesis

  • Prestigious global award for School of Education academic

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/glenn-fulcher

    Glenn Fulcher, Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Assessment in the University of Leicester’s School of Education, is the 2021 recipient of the prestigious Messick Memorial Award for his outstanding contribution to validation theory.

  • Up to a third of people with type 2 diabetes not taking prescriptions properly

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/05-type-2-diabetes-prescriptions

    Leicester researchers have used a unique screening approach to suggest that nearly a third of people with type 2 diabetes may be putting their health at risk because they are not taking their medications correctly.

  • Scientists cook up a green recipe for recycling lithium-ion batteries using vegetable oil

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/battery-recycling-lithium-ion-cooking-oil

    Technique developed at University of Leicester enables cheaper and sustainable recycling of battery black mass and could impact lithium-ion batteries used in billions of electronics and electric vehicles worldwide

  • First ever SAPPHIRE-run Ethnography for Healthcare Improvement Summer School is huge success

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2019/08/29/first-ever-sapphire-run-ethnography-for-healthcare-improvement-summer-school-is-huge-success/

    Posted by ekrockow in SAPPHIRE (Social science APPlied to Healthcare Improvement REsearch) on August 29, 2019 SAPPHIRE ran the first Ethnography for Healthcare Improvement Summer School. This was a two-day event held in a very sunny College Court in Leicester.

  • UK Space Agency establishes Midlands base at Space Park Leicester

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/space-agency-regional-office

    University of Leicester’s £100 million science and innovation park to host regional office, part of national expansion aimed to enable UK Space Agency to collaborate more closely with the UK’s thriving space sector

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