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Over £600,000 for University of Leicester to shrink AI algorithms for smarter spacecraft
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/shrinking-ai-spacecraft
Multidisciplinary team from University of Leicester receives £690,000 funding from UK Space Agency and aims to develop and demonstrate streamlined machine learning algorithms suitable for limited spacecraft power and computing performance
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Its written in the stars
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/its-written-in-the-stars
Astronomers today opened one of the last remaining windows on the Universe, publishing the first full 3D census of over one billion stars in our Milky Way.
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5th August 2017 Sol 1777 – 5 years on Mars
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2017/08/05/5th-august-2017-sol-1777-5-years-on-mars/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 5, 2017 The 5th August marks 5 Earth years since the successful landing of Mars Science Laboratory. During the landing I was at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
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A Leap Forward in the Race to Find Extreme Events Quickly
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/12/06/a-leap-forward-in-the-race-to-find-extreme-events-quickly/
Extreme events in space will be identified faster than ever before thanks to a new tool developed by experts at the University of Leicester’s School of Physics and Astronomy, write Dr. Phil Evans.
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Faraday Institution Honours Leicester Team for Battery Recycling Innovation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/faraday-institution-honours-battery-recycling-innovation
University of Leicester chemists recognised with a Highly Commended Faraday Institution Community Award for Innovation for patent-pending technology that enables direct recycling of black mass within the UK, reducing reliance on exports and supporting domestic circularity of...
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Major international conference on adult education coming to the University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/major-international-conference-on-adult-education-coming-to-the-university-of-leicester
The Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults (SCUTREA) will be hosted by the Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of Leicester in July 2016.
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Winners of short story competition celebrate their success
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/winners-of-short-story-competition-celebrate-their-success
The winners of the Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning Short Story Competition 2015 have been announced. David Marriott took the £300 first prize in the adult writers’ category. Isabella Guzy-Kirkden won the junior competition prize of £100.
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Sol 2039 1st May 2018 Unique Samples from the Deep Martian Crust
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2018/05/01/sol-2039-1st-may-2018-unique-samples-from-the-deep-martian-crust/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 1, 2018 We have recently come across a unique set of samples from the deeper crust of Mars, kilometres below what was the Gale Lake 4 billion years ago.
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Spying on Curiosity and Detecting Methane above the Clay Unit in Gale Crater Sol 2424
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2019/06/27/spying-on-curiosity-and-detecting-methane-above-the-clay-unit-in-gale-crater-sol-2424/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 27, 2019 Around this locality in the Clay Unit of Gale Crater we have been doing more methane measurements with the SAM instrument. This highlights the enigmatic nature of Mars’ atmospheric methane.
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Queer Diasporas: Islam, Homosexuality and a Micropolitics of Dissent
https://le.ac.uk/english/research/research-projects/past-projects/queer-diasporas
The Queer Diasporas project ran from September 2014 - August 2017. The study’s main aim was to challenge acerbic views on Muslim citizens by foregrounding their politically significant sexual dissidence.