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• Adam Kay, Russell Kane and Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock headline 2024 Literary Leicester festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/literary-leicester

  Literary Leicester, the University of Leicester’s annual free literature festival, will return next month.

• Research reveals solar storms trigger Jupiters Northern Lights

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/research-reveals-solar-storms-trigger-jupiter2019s-2018northern-lights2019

  Solar storms trigger Jupiter’s intense ‘Northern Lights’ by generating a new X-ray aurora that is eight times brighter than normal and hundreds of times more energetic than Earth’s aurora borealis, finds new research, involving the University of Leicester, using NASA’s...

• New space research to survey chimpanzee habitats

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/jgi-laser-chimps

  Professor Kevin Tansey, of the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, will work closely with colleagues at Space Park Leicester – the first phase of which is now complete – in supporting the research and knowledge exchange programme.

• Breakthrough for firm working to protect satellites from ‘space bullets’

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/space-bullet

  A company based at the University of Leicester working on a pioneering system to save the space industry billions every year has successfully demonstrated the operation of its technology in orbit.

• ispace and University of Leicester collaborate on lunar night survival technology

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/ispace

  The University of Leicester and ispace have entered into an agreement to explore lunar night survivability utilizing Radioisotope Heater Units developed at Space Park Leicester

• Space Park Leicester to bring space back down to Earth at national conference

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/space-park-leicester-national-conference

  Cutting-edge work of University of Leicester’s science park to be showcased from 16-17 July, including an early prototype of the Double Walled Isolator: a miniature laboratory for returned extraterrestrial samples

• Convicts, Collecting and Knowledge Production in the Nineteenth Century

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/07/27/convicts-collecting-and-knowledge-production-in-the-nineteenth-century/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on July 27, 2015 In previous blogs, I have explored some of the circulations and connections that linked nations, colonies and empires, and wove together practices of punishment and penal labour across polities and imperial spaces.

• Expert opinions cover the British Empire air pollution the CIA and how society sleeps

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/expert-opinions-cover-the-british-empire-air-pollution-the-cia-and-how-society-sleeps

  Dr Stan Neal from the School of History, Politics and International Relations has written an article for The Conversation about how the British Empire facilitated the movement of migrant workers in the 19th century and beyond.

• Fold-out solar blankets to power satellites receives £1 million boost

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/fold-out-solar-blankets-power-satellites

  A new concept for a solar blanket to power satellites that can be folded away will be developed with engineering expertise from the University of Leicester thanks to new funding.

• New study underway to find best treatment for wake-up stroke patients

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/4-new-study-underway-to-find-best-treatment-for-wake-up-stroke-patients

  New study underway to find best treatment for wake-up stroke patients led by Professor Thompson Robinson, Head of Department of Cardiovascular Sciences