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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.
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Peatlands will store more carbon as planet warms, study suggests
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/peatlands-will-store-more-carbon-as-planet-warms-study-suggests
Peatlands will store more carbon as planet warms, study suggests Photograph of a peat field|Leicester scientist part of international study into effects of global warming on peatlands Global warming will cause peatlands to absorb more carbon – but the effect will weaken as...
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PowerPoint doesn’t kill presentations – people do
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/03/06/powerpoint-doesnt-kill-presentations-people-do/
Posted by Stephen Walker in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on March 6, 2017 Bent Meier Sørensen, a Professor in the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen University wrote an impressive article in The Independent last...
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Discovery of Ancient Super-eruptions Suggests the Yellowstone Hotspot May Be Waning
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/blog/2020/07/08/discovery-ancient-super-eruptions-suggests-the-yellowstone-hotspot-may-be-waning/
Posted by in University of Leicester Staff Blogs on July 8, 2020 Spectacular deformation (folding) within the Grey’s Landing Ignimbrite.
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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...
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University of Leicester marks Black History Month 2022
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/black-history-month
The University of Leicester is holding a number of events to mark Black History Month, alongside its Students’ Union and Attenborough Arts Centre.
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Economics in the Rear-View Mirror
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/12/economics-in-the-rear-view-mirror/
Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 12, 2015 Joseph Schumpeter, who taught at Harvard from 1932 to 1950. Image licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.
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University of Leicester celebrates top 2% global sustainability ranking
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/the-sustainability-ranking
The University of Leicester is once again celebrating global sustainability success after being ranked in the top 2% of global universities for its contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Ranking.
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What the Hong Kong Occupation has Already Achieved
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/11/10/what-the-hong-kong-occupation-has-already-achieved/
Posted by Rutvica Andrijasevic in School of Business Blog on November 10, 2014 Rutvica Andrijasevic, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, overviews some provisional findings from the research she has been doing into the ongoing protest While ‘Occupy Central’...
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Leicester expert in top 50 list of innovators driving transition to net zero
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/heiko-balzter-net-zero-50
An Earth observation expert from the University of Leicester has been named one of the UK’s top 50 innovators who are driving the transition to net zero.