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• Legal drugs: all the pros and none of the cons?

  https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/legal-drugs

  Read the article "Legal drugs: all the pros and none of the cons?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.

• The banknote: a symbol of trust?

  https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/banknote

  Read the article The banknote: a symbol of trust? This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.

• From the subatomic to the intergalactic: scientists gather in Leicester to share supercomputer results

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/10-dirac-day

  Experts in astrophysics, particle physics, nuclear physics and cosmology will assemble at the University of Leicester this week to share the latest scientific advances which have been made possible by DiRAC, a multi-site supercomputing facility.

• Baby pterodactyls could fly from birth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/12-baby-pterodactyls-flying-from-birth

  A breakthrough discovery has found that pterodactyls, extinct flying reptiles also known as pterosaurs, had a remarkable ability – they could fly from birth.

• Rapid spread of a meningitis bacteria linked to hypermutable sequences helping avoidance of the immune system

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/26-meningitis-bacteria-spread-avoidance-immune-system

  An enhanced potential to avoid the human immune system has been found in recent serogroup W isolates of Neisseria meningitidis by University of Leicester researchers, which may explain in part why the strain spread so rapidly among young people in 2013.

• Worlds collide: University of Leicester experts to help upgrade Large Hadron Collider experiment

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/leicester-experts-upgrade-large-hadron-collider-experiment

  Expertise from Leicester in particle detectors to contribute to next upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment, thought to be the first time Leicester scientists are working directly on instrumentation for the world’s largest particle accelerator

• Student nurses scoop prestigious awards

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/nursing-times-awards-leicester

  Student Nurses Daud Malida and Lily Scott, from the University of Leicester, have won Student Nursing Times Awards

• Breakthrough in fuel cell recycling turns ‘forever chemicals’ into renewable resources

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/breakthrough-fuel-cell-recycling-forever-chemicals-renewable

  University of Leicester scientists develop technique using soundwaves to separate materials in fuel cells in seconds

• Exosens invests £1m to propel space research and innovation for the METEOR programme in partnership with Space Park Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/exosens

  Exosens has worked with University of Leicester academics for more than 25 years, on projects such as the Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer (MIXS) instrument the European Space Agency’s BepiColombo mission

• PhD researchers rise to Three Minute Thesis challenge

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/three-minute-thesis-seaweed

  More than 100,000 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) were sold in the UK in 2020, with further demand for battery technology in hybrid vehicles.