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During the 2020 lockdown, the National Space Centre continued to engage a national audience with their space-themes videos. The team at the Space Centre ran a series of thematic weeks from April 2020 onwards, showcasing videos and activities that focussed on different topic each week. From Mars to the Moon, from astronauts to rockets, each […]
Leicester Physicist Competing in Famelab 2020
Leicester physicist takes part in the FameLab Northern Heat. It’s hard to get much done in 3 minutes, and if you’ve ever tried to explain your research to a family member or a friend who aren’t in your field, you know how quickly people’s eyes can glaze over and how quickly people can lose interest. […]
Can Black Hole Tidal Disruptions Leave Remnants?
A guest blog from Professor Andrew King on black holes and observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton. Professor Andrew King recently provided a guest blog for the Chandra X-Ray observatory website, and is reproduced with permission here. Andrew is the author of a paper that is the subject of a recent press release. Andrew’s interests include […]
Sarah Casewell on the ExoCast Podcast
The Exoplanet Podcast (ExoCast) is a regular podcast about all things exoplanetary, and this month interviewed Leicester Astronomer Dr. Sarah Casewell. ExoCast hosts Hannah Wakeford, Hugh Osborn, and Andrew Rushby chat with Dr Sarah Casewell about her work on irradiated brown dwarfs. Sarah is an Ernest Rutherford Fellow at the University of Leicester where she has […]
New award for improving agricultural monitoring from Space
Leicester physicists have recently been awarded a Met Office Newton grant to monitor vegetation health and stress from Space Food security has always been a major strategic issue related to global economic development, social stability and national independence. In China, the state of food security is very fragile and vulnerable to agricultural and hydrological drought. […]
Three-Minute Wonder Competition
Leicester physicists are involved in 3 Minute Wonder competition. Three Minute Wonder is a UK and Ireland-wide science communication competition that engages the public with researchers being challenged to explain their work in just three minutes. Those taking part work in physics or physics-related fields in academia and industry. The competition is made up of […]
The “Wall of Women” visits the School of Physics
The School of Physics celebrates International Women’s Day International Women’s Day is a day on which the social, cultural, political and economic achievements of women around the world are celebrated. As part of the week long celebrations that took place across our campus, the ‘Leicester Wall of Women’ was sent around the university. Anyone, staff […]
Advancing UK and Italian research in Gamma-Ray astrophysics
Leicester physicists invited to the home of the UK Ambassador to Italy to discuss the future of Gamma-Ray astrophysics. The School of Physics and Astronomy has a long and proud tradiation of astrophysics research in collaboration with Italian scientists stretching back over many decades. Three of our academics, Professors Paul O’Brien, Jon Lapington and Julian […]
British Planetary Science Conference 2020
Academic staff and students presented a wide range of work at the 2nd British Planetary Science Conference The 2nd British Planetary Science Conference was held from the 13th-15th of January at the University of Oxford, following from 2017’s inaugural conference in Glasgow. Attendees from the University of Leicester presented their work across 14 talks and […]
Remote sensing of greenhouse gases in the air over Jinja, Uganda
A new ground-based measurement site in Uganda, set up by the University of Leicester in partnership with NaFIRRI, will provide a unique dataset of remotely sensed greenhouse gas observations over a period of several months. From the 16th to 22nd of January 2020, Dr Neil Humpage (Earth Observation Science) visited Jinja, Uganda, to set up […]
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