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• Major step in UK contribution to space mission to study solar wind

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/10/23/major-step-in-uk-contribution-to-space-mission-to-study-solar-wind/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 23 October 2021 Space scientists from the University of Leicester have delivered a key component for a new mission to study the impact of the solar wind on Earth’s magnetic field.

• Andrew Dunn: Page 200

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/200/

  Academic Librarian.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/201/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Landmark study reveals hidden frailty crisis in young heart attack patients

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/heart-attack-frailty-health-risk-leicester

  Researchers in Leicester have uncovered a major blind spot in the way doctors assess future health risk in young adults who suffer a heart attack.

• Final chances to view popular city centre archaeological dig

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/final-chances-to-view-popular-city-centre-archaeological-dig

  These tickets have now sold out Due to huge demand, Leicester archaeologists have announced further opportunities for members of the public to view the largest archaeological excavation in Leicester in over a decade on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 May 2017.

• Fossil study sheds light on ancient water-to-land transition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/ostracod

  The research team’s findings, published in The Royal Society’s Biology Letters, show how ostracods began to swim into estuaries about 420 million years ago during the Silurian Period, beginning their exploration of many new habitats.

• Feeding habits of ancient elephant relatives explored in new study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/tooth-wear-sheds-light-on-the-feeding-habits-of-ancient-elephant-relatives

  How can we ever know what ancient animals ate? For the first time, the changing diets of elephants in the last two million years in China have been reconstructed, using a technique based on analysis of the surface textures of their teeth.

• Study suggests over half of women with gestational diabetes in the UK are undiagnosed

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/gestational-diabetes

  Research investigating testing methods for gestational diabetes suggests that over half of pregnant women with the condition are not being diagnosed with the current NHS blood test process, leading to unnecessary complications for mother and baby.

• University scientists study solar system formation using over 1200 alien worlds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/university-scientists-study-solar-system-formation-using-over-1-200-alien-worlds

  Space scientists at the University are using groundbreaking new information about hundreds of newly discovered exoworlds to help them better understand the evolution of solar systems.

• Study reveals Congo swamps as the worlds largest tropical peatland

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/study-reveals-congo-swamps-as-the-world2019s-largest-tropical-peatland

  A vast peatland in the Congo Basin has been mapped for the first time, revealing it to be largest in the tropics.