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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

• US election sites

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/02/13/us-election-sites/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2012 Pew Forum on Religion and Public life now has a site with news and comment on the role of religion in the 2012 presidential election: http://projects.pewforum.

• 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.

• 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...

• Hanif Kureishi: the Assemblage of a Native Informant

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/queeringislam/2015/03/06/hanif-kureishi-the-assemblage-of-a-native-informant/

  Posted by Alberto Fernández Carbajal in Queering Islam on March 6, 2015 There are few writers alive in Britain today who can elicit such polarised, or at best highly qualified, responses as Hanif Kureishi (except, perhaps, his fellow writer and friend Salman Rushdie).

• 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 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.

• Messium graduates from ESA-BIC programme, pioneering hyperspectral innovation in agriculture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/messium-esa-bic-programme-hyperspectral-innovation-agriculture

  Company using cutting-edge hyperspectral satellite technology in agriculture has been part of prestigious business support programme at Space Park Leicester, the University of Leicester’s £100 million science and innovation park

• 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.

• 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.