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• UK Space Agency backs Space Park Leicester based start-up

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/messium-space-park

  Agri-tech start-up Messium based at Space Park Leicester has been accepted on to one of the UK Space Agency’s most prestigious business support programmes

• Pick your poison study examines the use of plant poison on prehistoric weaponry

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/pick-your-poison-study-examines-the-use-of-plant-poison-on-prehistoric-weaponry

  Archaeologists have long believed that our ancestors used poisons extracted from plants such as foxgloves and hemlock to make their weapons more lethal and kill their prey more swiftly.

• Student research helps to settle who the victor of a superhero showdown would likely be

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/student-research-helps-to-settle-who-the-victor-of-a-superhero-showdown-would-likely-be

  Natural Sciences and Physics and Astronomy students have been using simple calculations to explain the feasibility of the powers behind of some of the most prominent comic book superheroes known around the world.

• University of Leicester grows partnership with An Indian Summer festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/may/university-leicester-partnership-indian-summer-festival

  The fifteenth edition of one of the UK’s longest-running South Asian arts festivals will be supported by the University of Leicester.

• Leicester researchers involved in project to address Malaysias environmental challenges

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/leicester-researchers-involved-in-project-to-address-malaysia2019s-environmental-challenges

  Researchers from our University are part of a team delivering an Earth and Sea Observation System (EASOS) for Malaysia in order to address some of the country’s major environmental challenges.

• Leicester sports sociologist examines the making of British football

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/john-williams-book

  The history of British football and its people is the subject of a book from University of Leicester sports sociologist, John Williams.

• New investment in seismic monitoring facility at University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/seis-uk-nerc-funding

  Leicester-based SEIS-UK is to benefit from new funding from Natural Environmental Research Council, as will two facilities led by the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), which is based at Space Park Leicester, the University of Leicester’s space hub

• Ceremony late show sees Gloria make University of Leicester history

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/gloria-mawete

  Geography student makes University of Leicester graduation history

• Students calculate how much of the Amazon would be required to print the Internet

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/students-calculate-how-much-of-the-amazon-would-be-required-to-print-the-internet

  Students from the The Centre for Interdisciplinary Science have calculated how much paper would be required to physically print the Internet as we know it - and have worked out that despite the Internet’s enormous size less than 1 per cent of the Amazon rainforest’s...

• Leicester space scientists celebrate milestone moment for James Webb Space Telescope

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/miri-cooldown

  Dr Henrik Melin is the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) James Webb Fellow at the University of Leicester.