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A giant black hole in the Milky Way
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2024/04/30/a-giant-black-hole-in-the-milky-way/
Posted by Physics and Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 30 April 2024 A sleeping giant The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has discovered a black hole 33 times the mass of the Sun. It is in the constellation Aquila, less than 2000 light-years from Earth.
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Is a product really worth what someone will pay for it?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2017/08/23/is-a-product-really-worth-what-someone-will-pay-for-it/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on August 23, 2017 I recently had reason to compare the work of people at opposite ends of the work-related pay scales that our society has developed.
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Introducing SKYLARK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/26/introducing-skylark/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 26 October 2020 The SKYLARK rocket dominates our newly-revamped foyer in the School of Physics and Astronomy. This blog post provides some of the history of Leicester’s involvement in the SKYLARK project.
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Current view on origins of Parkinsons disease challenged by new findings
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/current-view-on-origins-of-parkinson2019s-disease-challenged-by-new-findings
The neurodegeneration that occurs in Parkinson’s disease is a result of stress on the endoplasmic reticulum in the cell rather than failure of the mitochondria as previously thought, according to a study in fruit flies.
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Wasps may hold the secret to slowing down the ageing process
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/wasp-aging-leicester-biological
Scientists at the University of Leicester have discovered that jewel wasps can slow down their biological rate of ageing
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Leicester in top 10 for on-campus wi-fi
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/leicester-in-top-10-for-on-campus-wi-fi
Leicester is a top 10 UK university for on-campus wi-fi according to data compiled by StudentCrowd, an online review community for students.
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John Pye
https://le.ac.uk/people/john-pye
The academic profile of Dr John Pye, Senior Research Fellow at University of Leicester
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Human Resource Management with Foundation Year BA
https://le.ac.uk/courses/human-resource-management-with-foundation-year-ba/2026
If you would love to study human resource management here at Leicester, but don’t quite have the entry requirements, this Foundation Year degree is your path to making it happen.
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Holly Bee
https://le.ac.uk/people/holly-bee
The academic profile of Ms Holly Bee, PhD Student at University of Leicester
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Molecular Pathology and Cell Biology of Cancer
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/mb7401
Module code: MB7401 This module will employ a molecular pathology approach to the study of cancer. We will explore the molecular changes that take place during the progression of a cell -from normal cell to a malignant tumour.