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Leicester experts uncover secrets of healthy ageing from the world’s oldest person
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/healthy-ageing-leicester-genome-maria
Leicester scientists have helped study the genetics and lifestyle factors that enabled María Branyas Morera, officially the oldest person in the world until she died last year, to reach 117 years old
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December Book Group: Officers and Gentlemen
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/12/19/officers/
Summary of the December 2014 meeting of the Waugh Book Group, Leicester
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Leicester Physicists at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2019
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2019/12/16/leicester-physicists-at-american-geophysical-union-fall-meeting-2019/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 16 December 2019 At the beginning of December, members from Leicester’s School of Physics and Astronomy made their way to San Francisco, USA to present their research at the American Geophysical Union (AGU)...
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CuppaScience and the James Webb Space Telescope
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/07/21/201/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 21 July 2020 We highlight Leicester’s involvement in the James Webb Space Telescope, the ambitious new infrared telescope launching in 2021 – with the #CuppaScience Podcast with Naomi Rowe-Gurney.
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Lose Yourself on Mars with Attenborough Arts Centre
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/26/lose-yourself-on-mars-with-attenborough-arts-centre/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 26 October 2020 There’s no place like… Mars. Book a 30-minute slot and utterly lose yourself… The Attenborough Arts Centre “Mariner 9” exhibition has been extended.
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SVOM has left the building
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/12/18/svom-has-left-the-building/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 18 December 2020 An update on the X-ray optic for the Chinese-French satellite SVOM , by Charly Feldman.
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The 2021 Partial Solar Eclipse
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/06/11/the-2021-partial-solar-eclipse/
The 2021 Partial Solar Eclipse
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Centenary Inaugural Lectures: Black Holes to Giant Planets
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/09/02/centenary-inaugural-lectures-black-holes-to-giant-planets/
Members of the School of Physics and Astronomy are invited to two Professorial Inaugural Lectures in September.
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Stargazing nights at Oadby Observatory
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/12/16/stargazing-nights-at-oadby-observatory/
The School of Physics and Astronomy would like to invite staff and their families to a stargazing night at the Oadby Observatory on Manor Road.
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AstroSeminar – Geoffroy Lesur (Grenoble) – Wed 24th Feb, 3pm
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/02/22/astroseminar-geoffroy-lesur-grenoble-24th-feb-3pm/
Posted by er198 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 22 February 2021 The Wednesday seminar this week (24th of Feb) will be delivered by Dr. Geoffroy Lesur (Grenoble) at usual time (3pm). Please find below title and abstract of the talk. Send an email to er198[at]leicester.