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• New insight into frictionless surfaces is slippery slope to energy-efficient technology

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/superlubricity-friction

  Scientists led by the University of Leicester have made an insight into superlubricity, revealing that friction is reduced further at lower temperatures

• Space Park Leicester and Perpetual Atomics achieve historic first in radioisotope heater unit safety testing

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/space-park-leicester-perpetual-atomics-radioisotope-heater-unit-safety-testing

  Success for University of Leicester and spinout company Perpetual Atomics Ltd as containment system undergoes impact test campaign and a leap forward for deployment of americium radioisotope power systems

• Martyrdom, Memory and the Marquis of Montrose. By Rachel Bennett

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/03/22/martyrdom-memory-and-the-marquis/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on March 22, 2016   During the past three years a key part of my research as part of the Criminal Corpse project has been to trace the people who suffered the last punishment of the law from their capital...

• Two Leicester professors join prestigious Academy of Medical Sciences Fellowship

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/08-academy-medical-sciences-fellows

  The Academy of Medical Sciences has elected Leicester’s Professor Chris Brightling and Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga to their esteemed Fellowship, as announced today, Wednesday 8 May.

• Inspiring a new generation of innovators

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/inspiring-a-new-generation-of-innovators-1

  A Professor from our University is inspiring the next generation of innovators.

• NASA and European Space Agency visit Leicester for Mars workshop

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/07-mars-sample-return-workshop

  Planetary scientists from across the globe, including representatives from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA and European Space Agency, visited the University of Leicester last week for a Mars Sample Return workshop.

• How do you win the research game? Hide the results you don’t like!

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/01/22/how-do-you-win-the-research-game-hide-the-results-you-dont-like/

  Posted by Simon Lilley in School of Business Blog on January 22, 2015 Head of School, Professor Simon Lilley and Director of Research, Professor Martin Parker , discuss the problems of comparing apples, pears and potatoes, in the ranking of business and management research.

• Protesting against the Vietnam War in October 1965

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/10/05/protesting-against-the-vietnam-war-in-october-1965/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on October 5, 2015 Fifty years ago, in October 1965, mass demonstrations against the Vietnam War took place in the US and pacifist David J.

• Leicester doctor awarded grant to reduce risks of heart attacks and strokes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/31-saratzis-grant

  A vascular surgeon from Leicester’s Hospitals has been awarded a four-year grant worth over £1 million from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

• Drop In Sessions/Online Q&A and placement sessions

  https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/events/drop-in-sessions

  Languages at Leicester run a series of on-campus (face-to-face) drop-in sessions and online Q&A and placement sessions