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• Will Trump make nuclear war more likely? University of Leicester expert gives his view

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/trump-nuclear

  An expert in global nuclear politics from the University of Leicester has warned Donald Trump’s presidential era could put more responsibility on the UK to lead on nuclear deterrence in Europe.

• Cabinet of Curiosities: how disability was kept in a box

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/cabinet-of-curiosities

  A unique performance that challenges the way we think about disability.

• Air quality can be better for active commuters than drivers, research shows

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/commute-air-quality

  Their findings show that NO2 concentrations can be higher in car cabins (even electric car cabins) than alongside the road where people are walking and cycling.  Some PM2.5 can be removed, for example by pollen filters, meaning PM2.

• Planetary Surfaces and Analogues

  https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/planetary-science/planetary-surfaces-and-analogues

  Researchers at Leicester are involved in the characterisation of surface materials across a range of planetary bodies, and are developing next-generation instrumentation to measure material properties from Martian rovers and landers on icy surfaces.

• Review outlines methods to estimate life expectancy

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/life-expectancy

  Five key methods have been explored by Leicester researchers to calculate life expectancy and the life years lost due to disease and illness.

• Christian De Vito

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/author/cdv8/

  I am research associate on the Carceral Archipelago project, focusing on convict circulation in the late-colonial and post-colonial Latin America. And I am honorary fellow at the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam).

• Stem cell

  https://le.ac.uk/mcb/facilities-and-technologies/protex/available-vectors/stem-cell

  vectors available for stem cells

• Reducing skin bacteria before surgery

  https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/about/heart-surgery/national-cardiac-surgery-clinical-trials-programme/infection-prevention/risk-factors/patient-risk-assessment/reducing-skin-bacteria-before-surgery

  Things you can do before surgery to reduce the number of bacteria getting into your wound and causing an infection.

• New digital map remembers Vanished Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/new-digital-map-remembers-2018vanished-leicester2019

  Leicester researchers have developed a new digital map of ‘Vanished Leicester’ which shows the transformation of the city in recent decades.

• Capturing the UK Fireball with a Raspberry Pi

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/03/02/capturing-the-uk-fireball-with-a-raspberry-pi/

  Capturing the UK Fireball with a Raspberry Pi, star trails, Leicester