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Laser-firing spacecraft lauded by Leicester Director
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/laser-firing-spacecraft-lauded-by-leicester-director
Professor John Remedios, Head and Professor of Earth Observation Science and head of the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) at our University has been involved in an event for a new European Space Agency instrument.
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New evidence traces herpes virus back almost 5,000 years
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/herpes-genome
Researchers have mapped the genetic structure of the herpes virus and, for the first time, traced its European origin back almost 5,000 years.
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Gaia Data Release 3: New space data serves as ‘complete step change’ in understanding of our Universe
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/gaia-dr3
Space scientists have today (Monday) announced the discovery of a ‘super Jupiter’ orbiting a white dwarf, the first detected using direct observations with the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Gaia mission.
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Leicester partners with Thailand with support of Thai Prime Minister, British Ambassador and Leicester City Football Club
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/leicester-partners-with-thai-prime-minister-british-ambassador-leicester-city-football-club
The University of Leicester has marked its commitment to Thailand and Vietnam through a series of partnership agreements that will pave the way for Thai students to study in Leicester, open the door to research collaborations and promote bilateral knowledge exchange.
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Celebrating 50 years of knowledge transfer partnerships
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/celebrating-50-years-knowledge-transfer-partnerships
The University of Leicester hosted a KTP@50 event to mark five decades of transformative collaboration between academia and industry through the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme.
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Julia Clark
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/author/jac85/
Julia joined the University of Leicester in 2016 to undertake a PhD studentship exploring variations in care following altered fetal movement.
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Science exploitation
https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/space-projects-instrumentation/exploitation
Learn more about science exploitation in the Space Projects and Instrumentation group at the University of Leicester.
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What the bones can't tell us
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/osteology/what-bones-cant-tell-us
We can tell the age, height and build of Richard III from the skeleton but the details of the injuries is based on knowledge of medieval weapons, armour and battles as well as on the bones themselves.
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Philip Larkins secret selfies
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/philip-larkins-secret-selfies
For the first time, photographs taken by the poet Philip Larkin have been collected together from thousands held by the Larkin archive in Hull. Larkin had a long history with the University.
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Astronomers join hunt for Einsteins gravitational sirens
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/astronomers-join-hunt-for-einstein2019s-gravitational-sirens
The first detection of gravitational waves was announced today by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration - and Leicester astronomers were among the first to respond to the detection, searching for the counterpart with X-ray and infra-red telescopes.