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• Leicester engineers to stress test new technology to store waste heat

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/energy-storage

  A Europe-wide project developing a new electrothermal energy storage system involves materials experts at the University of Leicester and will take advantage of phase change materials (PCMs) to efficiently store heat

• Ancient fossils reveal the oldest known vertebrates had four eyes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/january/ancient-fossils-vertebrates-four-eyes

  Study by international team of researchers, including a University of Leicester palaeontologist, examines exquisitely preserved fossils from the Cambrian period

• Biology unlikely to drive ethnic differences in COVID-19 risk for healthcare workers, study finds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/covid-biology

  The differences in COVID-19 infection risk between ethnic minority healthcare workers and their White colleagues is likely due to home and work factors rather than biology, according to the largest and most detailed study on the subject, led by the University of Leicester,...

• Immersive exhibition sheds new light on Calke Abbey’s ‘isolated’ family and gets people talking about loneliness and isolation

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/01-calke-abbey

  The installation of the interpretation of the library as it was constructed.

• Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/lunatic-asylum

  What we have known since the 1960s as the Fielding Johnson Building was originally the Leicestershire County Lunatic Asylum: the first public provision of care for pauper ‘lunatics’ (an all-encompassing term used at the time for many mentally and physically debilitating...

• Professor Dame Rosemary Cramp FBA, FSA

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/rosemary-cramp

  The University was sad to learn of the recent death of its honorand, the distinguished archaeologist Professor Dame Rosemary Cramp. Pre-eminent in the study of the Anglo-Saxon period, Dame Rosemary was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century archaeology

• Jurassic calamari: amazing fossil proves that flying reptiles preyed on squid

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/january/27-pterosaur-vs-squid

  Rhamphorhynchus muensteri, flying close to the water surface to grab soft-bodied cephalopods such as Plesioteuthis subovata. Artwork by C Klug and Beat Scheffold.|An incredible fossil brought to light in a new research paper reveals the feeding habits of extinct flying reptiles.

• Space Missions: The Executive Guide to Space

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/cpd-executive-guide-to-space/2026

  A primer to put you on the launchpad to a career in the space industry.

• Protecting endangered animals from illegal wildlife trade using mobile DNA sequencing

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/09-illegal-wildlife-trade-conference

  University of Leicester researchers presenting innovative DNA analysis methods for testing samples to find species-of-origin at the Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference between 11-12 October

• Report shows rate of stillbirths and neonatal deaths decreased in 2023 but persistent inequalities remain

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/perinatal-loss-infancy-death-leicester

  The MBRRACE-UK collaboration, jointly led by Oxford Population Health’s National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit and the University of Leicester’s TIMMS research group, has today published a ‘State of the Nation’ report on perinatal deaths of babies born in the UK in 2023.