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Hunting for Planet 9
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/01/05/hunting-for-planet-9/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 5 January 2020 Dr.
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University of Leicester astronomers help James Webb Space Telescope glean new insights from distant world
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/jwst
• A NASA-coordinated study has today revealed the early origins of a planet 700 light years away • Astronomers from the University of Leicester contributed to research that used the famous James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to investigate the atmosphere of distant planet...
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The nuclear bomb: destroyers of planets?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/nuclear-bomb
Read the article "The nuclear bomb: destroyers of planets?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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Pharmacists based within care homes make them safer for residents, research shows
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/care-home-pharmacies
Research by the University of Leicester has shown that basing pharmacies in care homes makes them safer for residents.
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Celebrate culture and creativity with Attenborough Arts Centre’s autumn programme
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/aa-autumn
Highlights of its popular Creative Course programme include Captured on Canvas with painter Jemisha Maadhavji who was recently featured in BBC 1’s ‘Extraordinary Portraits’.
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Tradition meets AI as Leicester scientists help tackle Amazonian biodiversity crisis
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/tradition-ai-leicester-scientists-amazonian-biodiversity-crisis
Scientists led by University of Leicester working with universities in Brazil will support traditional communities to monitor biodiversity in the Amazon, developing an AI toolkit to catalogue local knowledge and understanding
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Respiratory medicine
https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/host-microbe-interactions/respiratory-medicine
The University of Leicester is internationally recognised in respiratory research, with strengths in asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cough and other respiratory diseases.
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Breast cancer research scoops international award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/breast-cancer-award
Research by a University of Leicester PhD student into the side effects of breast cancer treatment have been internationally recognised
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Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/lunatic-asylum
What we have known since the 1960s as the Fielding Johnson Building was originally the Leicestershire County Lunatic Asylum: the first public provision of care for pauper ‘lunatics’ (an all-encompassing term used at the time for many mentally and physically debilitating...
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Chinese language, culture awareness and social etiquette
https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/languages/chinese/chinese-etiquette
Chinese Language, Culture awareness and Social etiquette course for those learning Mandarin or planing to travel there.