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Deck the halls with Christmas lights all the way to space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/18-deck-halls-christmas-lights-space
A house illuminated with Christmas lights|University of Leicester students have calculated how many Christmas lights are needed to decorate a house to be visible from space.
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Core values: the geoscientists searching for climate answers beneath the ocean floor
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/hawaii-coral-geoscience
Two geoscientists from the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment are on a voyage to unearth the hidden history within Hawai’ian fossil coral reefs.
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Leicester space scientists developing innovative camera system to detect most luminous objects in universe
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/leicester-space-scientists-developing-innovative-camera-system-to-detect-most-luminous-objects-in-universe
The latest iteration of the Cherenkov Telescope Array’s (CTA) science case, Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array, has been made available via the CTA website library and arXiv and will be published in a special edition of International Journal of Modern Physics D in the...
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Scientist to share lifetime of adventures in free talk
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/scientist-lifetime-adventures-free-talk
Leading scientist, author and University of Leicester alumnus speaks on his 50-year career
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Edward Derbyshire
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/edward-derbyshire
We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Professor Edward Derbyshire, former Head of the Department of Geography, who passed away on 9 July 2024.
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The Geography of the Criminal Corpse: Magic, therapies and bodily pieces across Europe. By Francesca
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/01/19/francesca-matteoni-the-geography-of-the-criminal-corpse-magic-therapies-and-bodily-pieces-across-europe/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on January 19, 2016 I have been involved in the first two years of the project as a postdoctoral researcher working on the medico-magical employment of the criminal corpse’s pieces: hands, fingers,...
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Space scientist receives prestigious award from Royal Astronomical Society
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/space-scientist-receives-prestigious-award-from-royal-astronomical-society
Professor Emma Bunce (pictured) from our Department of Physics and Astronomy has received a prestigious award from the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) for her outstanding research into the physics of the gas giant planet magnetospheres of Jupiter and Saturn.
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University of Leicester convenes scientists to preserve Ukraine research during crisis
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/ukraine-summer-school
University of Leicester hosts Summer School with Kremenchuk Mykhailo Otrohradskyi National University in Ukraine until 14 July, two-week event aims to support Ukraine scientists in maintaining skills and knowledge during the war
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Leicester planetary scientists reveal secret behind Jupiter’s ‘energy crisis’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/08/04/leicester-planetary-scientists-reveal-secret-behind-jupiters-energy-crisis/
Leicester planetary scientists reveal secret behind Jupiter’s ‘energy crisis’
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Leicester scientists discover ‘Star Wars’ planet
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/leicester-scientists-discover-star-wars-planet
Scientists from the University of Leicester has revealed for the first time that groups of stars can tear apart their planet-forming disc, leaving it warped and with tilted rings - similar to the planet Tatooine in Star Wars.