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Asteroid fragments narrow down timeframe for giant planets’ current orbits
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/giant-planet-instability
University of Leicester-led study suggests that the orbital instability of the giant planets happened between 60-100 million years after the beginning of the Solar System, with evidence found in meteorites linked to asteroid believed to be remains of a destroyed planetesimal
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Leicester tops student nightlife league table
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/21-nightlife-league-table
A new ‘alternative university league table’ ranks the University of Leicester as number one! Ticket aggregator site Tickx compiled a list of 53 universities, using non-academic (but important) metrics including monthly rent, pubs per square mile, available Deliveroo options,...
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Conversations With… Prof. Emma Bunce
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/12/18/conversations-with-prof-emma-bunce/
Posted by ejb71 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 18 December 2020 Professor Emma Bunce is the Head of the School of Physics and Astronomy and is the current President of the Royal Astronomical Society. Emma and her working from home setup.
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Projects
https://le.ac.uk/celi/projects
The CELI team project has the objective to better understand GP as a tool for the substantive openness of the EU legal order as well as for cross-fertilization and coherence of legal orders.
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Recombinant DNA and genetic techniques for schools and colleges
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/recombinant-dna-and-genetic-techniques/school-and-colleges
Recombinant DNA (or rDNA) is made by combining DNA from two or more sources. Details on the processes and techniques, along with resources are available on our site.
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Conversations With… Dr Beatriz Sanchez-Cano
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/07/23/conversations-with-dr-beatriz-sanchez-cano/
Posted by ejb71 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 23 July 2021 Dr Beatriz Sanchez-Cano is a PostDoctoral Research Associate within the School of Physics and Astronomy and studies Mars’ Plasma.
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Brightest Gamma-Ray Source Detected by Swift
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/10/13/brightest-gamma-ray-burst-detected-by-swift/
On the afternoon of Sunday 9th October, the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) onboard Swift triggered on a new and incredibly bright gamma-ray source - write Kim Page, Andy Beardmore and Phil Evans.
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Company’s mission to revolutionise agriculture and eliminate global waste takes off at Space Park Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/messium-space-park
Agri-tech start-up Messium joins the European Space Agency – Business Incubation Centre for the United Kingdom (ESA-BIC UK) programme at Space Park Leicester.
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Conversations with… Duncan Ross
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/04/23/conversations-with-duncan-ross/
Posted by ejb71 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 23 April 2021 Duncan is the head of the electronics workshop in the Space Research Centre at the University of Leicester, as well as being the group safety supervisor.
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PhD Studentships for 2022
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/12/01/phd-studentships-for-2022/
PhD Studentships for 2022 at the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester