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• Astronaut reveals challenges of human spaceflight in exciting workshop

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/astronaut-challenges-human-spaceflight-workshop

  Dr Franco Malerba spoke to Physics students from the University of Leicester’s School of Physics and Astronomy for a Human Spaceflight Workshop at Space Park Leicester

• Ministers and Midlands universities launch £3m campaign to attract global R&D investment and drive economic growth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/investment

  University of Leicester joins seventeen universities from the Midlands in launching the Invest in UK University R&D – Midlands Campaign to drive investment into the region

• 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

• The Great Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction of 2020

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/12/02/the-great-jupiter-saturn-conjunction-of-2020/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 2 December 2020 A spectacular event is unfolding in the night skies this December, as Jupiter and Saturn appear closer in the sky than at any time in the past four centuries.

• Leicester team to feature on University Challenge Christmas series

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/university-challenge

  As well as providing the 1963-winning team, the University of Leicester has also seen other firsts: in 1974, Sandya Narayansami became the first Indian woman to compete on the show, her team beating St John’s College, Oxford.

• Leicester scientist heads to Westminster

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/leicester-scientist-heads-to-westminster

  On Tuesday 13 March, PhD student at our University Katie Raymer will be attending Voice of the Future 2018- a unique event offering young scientists and engineers the opportunity to quiz key political figures at the Houses of Parliament about science policy.

• Getting the Richard III discovery team back together 10 years on

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/richard-iii-podcast

  The team behind the discovery and identification of the remains of King Richard III has reunited for a podcast series.

• ‘Fizzy pop’ process reveals copper-rich volcanoes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/volcano

  Identifying magmas that experience the same process that makes fizzy drinks ‘bubbly’ has been used by a team of University of Leicester geologists to predict whether a volcano’s magma is likely to be rich in copper.

• Leicester starts initiative with Apollo to transform global healthcare

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/apollo-hospitals

  University of Leicester signs Memorandum of Understanding with one the world’s largest integrated healthcare service providers, The Apollo Hospitals Group

• Colin Hyde

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/author/colin_hyde/

  Colin Hyde manages the East Midlands Oral History Archive, based in Special Collections.