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• Aircraft keep tabs on the Amazons rising methane levels

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/greenhouse-gas-monitoring-aircraft-keep-tabs-on-the-amazon2019s-rising-methane-levels

  Research led by the National Centre of Earth Observation is going to new heights in the atmosphere to get a better handle on methane emitted from wetlands in the Amazon.

• Leicester to host national summit focusing on adult learning

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/leicester-to-host-national-summit-focusing-on-adult-learning

  On 25 November the University will host a special one-day national summit on widening access, retention and success for mature learners in higher education. The summit is being organised by NEON, the professional body for widening access and social mobility.

• Richard III geneticist to give Queens Lecture in Berlin

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/richard-iii-geneticist-to-give-queens-lecture-in-berlin

  Dr Turi King from our Department of Genetics and School of Archaeology and Ancient History will give this year's Queen's Lecture in Berlin, Germany on Tuesday 1 November.

• Cracking the complexities of metal processing

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/cracking-the-complexities-of-metal-processing

  The Royal Academy of Engineering has appointed Professor Hongbiao Dong to a five-year Research Chair at our University, with the aim of developing a step change in metal processing.

• Expert to discuss gene-editing research at free public lecture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/expert-to-discuss-gene-editing-research-at-free-public-lecture

  A leading expert will be discussing the latest breakthroughs in gene-editing research during this year’s Frank May Prize lecture on 31 October.

• New observations reveal Jupiters Great Red Spot as mysterious energy source

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/new-observations-reveal-jupiter2019s-great-red-spot-as-mysterious-energy-source

  Researchers from the University of Leicester and Boston University’s (BU) Center for Space Physics report today in Nature that Jupiter’s Great Red Spot may provide the mysterious source of energy required to heat the planet’s upper atmosphere to the unusually high values...

• Astronomers join hunt for Einsteins gravitational sirens

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/astronomers-join-hunt-for-einstein2019s-gravitational-sirens

  The first detection of gravitational waves was announced today by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration - and Leicester astronomers were among the first to respond to the detection, searching for the counterpart with X-ray and infra-red telescopes.

• Leicester shaking up the Premier League

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/leicester-shaking-up-the-premier-league

  Leicester City Football Club has been making a big impact on the Premier League this season, and their success is sending shockwaves, quite literally, through the city of Leicester.

• Could female traders reduce market crashes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/could-female-traders-reduce-market-crashes

  Researchers in the Department of Economics at the University of Leicester have shown that increasing the proportion of female traders makes the market more volatile, but at the same time can reduce the occurrence of the most extreme crashes.

• Blood suckers fluid dynamics explain how quickly a vampire could drain your blood

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/out-for-blood-fluid-dynamics-explain-how-quickly-a-vampire-could-drain-your-blood

  Throughout human history there have been tales of vampires – bloodsucking creatures of folklore that prey on their victims by draining their life essence, usually via the blood.