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• Leicester scientist working with NASA discovers a long-sought global electric field on Earth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/global-electric-field

  A rocket team including a University of Leicester space scientist reports the first successful detection of Earth’s ambipolar electric field: a weak, planet-wide electric field as fundamental as Earth’s gravity and magnetic fields

• Leicester contribution to major Parliamentary report

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/space-defence

  A leading expert in space warfare based at the University of Leicester has contributed to a new Parliamentary report on defence of the UK’s assets in space.

• Earth-based observations prepare Juno for the Great Red Spot Encounter

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2017/06/30/earth-based-observations-prepare-juno-for-the-great-red-spot-encounter/

  University of Leicester staff blogs

• University library feeds more than the mind thanks to free veg seed giveaway

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/university-leicester-seed-library-free-veg-giveaway

  The University of Leicester’s growing reputation has been bolstered with a scheme which allows its library members to take out seeds, as well as books.

• Leicester scientists look to Venus for close-range BepiColombo flyby

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/bepicolombo-venus

  Planetary scientists at the University of Leicester are braced for a flood of new data from one of the closest-ever flybys of Venus.

• Book Group: Unconditional Surrender

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2015/02/11/surrender/

  Posted by Barbara Cooke in Waugh and Words on February 11, 2015 The Penguin edition of Unconditional Surrender In January, a small cohort of the Book Group met to discuss the last book in Waugh’s “Sword of Honour” trilogy: Unconditional Surrender , which appeared for the...

• First glimpse of Mercury for BepiColombo

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/bepicolombo-mercury

  The mission comprises two science orbiters which will be delivered into complementary orbits around the planet by the Mercury Transfer Module in 2025.

• Motor City Stories

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/10/26/motor-city-stories/

  Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on October 26, 2020 Archivist Gary Collins explains how the digitisation of an audio collection is enabling its contents to be used in a variety of ways, including for Coventry City of Culture 2021.

• June Book Group: A Handful of Dust

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/06/16/handfulofdust/

  Summary of the Waugh Book Groups discussion of A Handful of Dust in June 2014.

• Leicester scientist lends insight into Hubble ‘shadow play’ around planet-forming disc

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/shadow-planet-disc

  University of Leicester scientist contributed modelling to new study to give insight into warping of protoplanetary discs by planets.