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• UK team to lead European mission to study new planets

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/uk-team-to-lead-european-mission-to-study-new-planets

  The ARIEL (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey) mission was selected as the next European Space Agency (ESA) science mission, putting UK leadership at the heart of research into planets that lie outside our solar system -- exoplanets.

• Free comedy theatre show on Victorian mental health treatments

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/04-time-travel-treatment

  Audiences are being invited to take a step back into the Victorian Era on Thursday 7 November for a free event at the University of Leicester taking a comical look at the historical diagnosis and treatments for mental health issues.

• Earth Day: National Space Centre launches Home Planet gallery

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/home-planet

  The new Home Planet gallery features an interactive projection floor with ice, water, and sea creatures that respond to visitor movements, while an art installation by local artist Michelle Reader based on the ‘Great Wave off Kanagawa’ but made entirely from recycled...

• Santander scholar on path to career in STEM

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/stemships

  An engineer at the University of Leicester has become one of the first beneficiaries of a scheme designed to enhance opportunities for women in STEM.

• Why do a MOOC in Museum Studies?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2015/12/10/why-do-a-mooc-in-museum-studies/

  Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on December 10, 2015 Over 11,000 people signed up for the first run of our Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Behind the Scenes at the 21 st Century Museum , and they were overwhelmingly positive about their experience.

• The Platform recordings – trains, planes, automobiles and volunteers.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/01/28/the-platform-recordings-trains-planes-automobiles-and-volunteers/

  Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on January 28, 2020   In 1974 John Kirby and Geoff Smith started ‘Platform’, a BBC Radio Leicester series about transport.

• The people in the film

  https://le.ac.uk/centenary/so-that-they-may-have-life/people

  The film shows Dr Astley Clarke and Lily McCurdy walking the same path a century apart. The film features students, alumni and staff playing the roles in the film.

• Ukraine war realises predictions of nuclear power plant threat, says Leicester civil safety expert

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/nuclear-power-plant-ukraine

  As Ukraine conflict continues, new book by University of Leicester researcher argues that nuclear facilities are more likely to be targeted, and damage to power plants risks radiological contamination of the environment over vast areas.

• Researchers make sand that flows uphill

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/sand-microrollers

  Paper published in 'Nature Communications' details how applying magnetic forces to individual 'microroller' particles spurs collective motion—with counterintuitive results

• University involved in new trial to fight cancer caused by asbestos

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/university-involved-in-new-trial-to-fight-cancer-caused-by-asbestos

  Patients with a hard-to-treat type of cancer are being given new hope in a ground-breaking clinical trial.