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• £750,000 funding for seismic sensors at University of Leicester to shake up environmental science

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/seismic-sensors

  A new, upgraded sensor array at the University of Leicester will allow scientists to monitor seismic activity in some of the world’s most challenging environments, such as in glaciers, landslides and volcanoes.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• Engineering Building listed as one of the worlds best unsung buildings

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/engineering-building-listed-as-one-of-the-worlds-best-unsung-buildings

  Our University's internationally famous Grade II* listed Engineering Building has been included in The Guardian's 'Castles in the sky' list, highlighting some of the world's best unsung buildings.

• 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.

• 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...