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• Study finds significant variation in stillbirths and neonatal mortality across the UK

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/study-finds-2018significant-variation2019-in-stillbirths-and-neonatal-mortality-across-the-uk

  Research published today shows the wide regional variation in the incidence of stillbirth and neonatal deaths in the UK. The MBRRACE-UK report focuses on rates of stillbirth and neonatal death across the UK. MBRRACE-UK focuses on babies born at 24 weeks of gestation or more.

• EarthSense Systems sponsors national air quality award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/earthsense-systems-sponsors-national-air-quality-award

  EarthSense Systems, a joint venture between aerial mapping company Bluesky and our University, is sponsoring a national award for air quality.

• 350 Years Ago Pepys and the Easter of 1666

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/350-years-ago-pepys-and-the-easter-of-1666

  350 years ago, on the Easter of 1666, famous diarist Samuel Pepys recorded how he failed to join a Church of England service at the Chapel in Whitehall Palace as it was too crowded over the festive period.

• Observatory that will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe will carry instrumentation co-developed by our University

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/james-webb-space-telescope-one-step-closer-to-launch-with-move-to-california

  An observatory that will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky Way Galaxy, is one step closer to launch.

• Desert Island Discs more than just a resource for good music

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/desert-island-discs-more-than-just-a-resource-for-good-music

  On Wednesday 16 May Drs Nick Smith and Cathleen Waters from the University’s School of Arts will be discussing the results of their research paper which analyses the radio archives of Desert Island Discs. Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

• Pregnancy in landscape – the rise of the banner bump

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2017/03/14/pregnancy-in-landscape/

  Julia Clark examines the overwhelming prevalence of 'banner bumps' in media representations of pregnancy

• Leicester space scientists celebrate the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/jwst-launch

  Amongst other things, it will be able to see the first galaxies that formed after the Big Bang, along with studying planet formation around distant stars.

• Animals’ ‘sixth sense’ more widespread than previously thought

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/animal-magnetic

  A study using fruit flies, led by researchers at The Universities of Leicester and Manchester, suggests the animal world’s ability to sense a magnetic field may be more widespread than previously thought.

• Ig Nobel Prize-winning geologist on why rocks speak in tongues

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/ig-nobel-zalasiewicz

  Professor Jan Zalasiewicz, Emeritus Professor in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, explains the research that won him an Ig Nobel Prize in 2023.

• First study examining pregnancy in the Viking Age: Pregnant women wearing martial helmets, fetuses set to avenge their fathers, but also a harsh world where not all newborns were given burial or born free 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/first-study-into-pregnancy-in-viking-age

  A new, interdisciplinary study is the first focused examination of pregnancy in the Viking Age.