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• Breakthrough in fuel cell recycling turns ‘forever chemicals’ into renewable resources

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/breakthrough-fuel-cell-recycling-forever-chemicals-renewable

  University of Leicester scientists develop technique using soundwaves to separate materials in fuel cells in seconds

• PhD researchers rise to Three Minute Thesis challenge

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/three-minute-thesis-seaweed

  More than 100,000 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) were sold in the UK in 2020, with further demand for battery technology in hybrid vehicles.

• University research plays ‘vital role’ in fighting climate change

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/climate-exp0

  Professor Susan Page, from the University of Leicester’s School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, shared leading research into using peatland environments to capture carbon as one form of nature-based solution.

• Baby pterodactyls could fly from birth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/12-baby-pterodactyls-flying-from-birth

  A breakthrough discovery has found that pterodactyls, extinct flying reptiles also known as pterosaurs, had a remarkable ability – they could fly from birth.

• Rapid spread of a meningitis bacteria linked to hypermutable sequences helping avoidance of the immune system

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/26-meningitis-bacteria-spread-avoidance-immune-system

  An enhanced potential to avoid the human immune system has been found in recent serogroup W isolates of Neisseria meningitidis by University of Leicester researchers, which may explain in part why the strain spread so rapidly among young people in 2013.

• Leicester researchers shed new light on extragalactic event

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/researchers-shed-light-extragalactic-event

  University of Leicester scientists discover that a Fast X-ray Transient (FXT) called EP250108a is the result of a massive star exploding.

• Worlds collide: University of Leicester experts to help upgrade Large Hadron Collider experiment

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/leicester-experts-upgrade-large-hadron-collider-experiment

  Expertise from Leicester in particle detectors to contribute to next upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment, thought to be the first time Leicester scientists are working directly on instrumentation for the world’s largest particle accelerator

• Richard III in the University Archives

  https://le.ac.uk/library/special-collections/explore/university-archives/richard-iii-spotlight

  Find out more about Richard III in the University archives.

• Environmental Governance and Social Justice

  https://le.ac.uk/gge/research/critical-creative-geographies/environmental-governance-and-social-justice

  Find out more about Environmental Governance and Social Justice at the University of Leicester.

• Changing the face of British sport governance

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/12-sporting-equals

  Sporting Equals and the University of Leicester are partners in a New LeaderBoard Academy in Sports Governance