An international team of environmental scientists has published a series of significant recommendations to protect, conserve and study the world’s coral reefs – the ‘canaries…
Neptune Is Cooler Than We Thought New research led by space scientists at the University of Leicester has revealed how temperatures in Neptune’s atmosphere have…
What do grasshoppers eat? It’s not just grass! New Leicester research shows similarities with mammal teeth like never before. New research led by paleobiologists at…
Saturn’s high-altitude winds generate an extraordinary aurorae. Space scientists at the University of Leicester have discovered a never-before-seen mechanism fueling huge planetary aurorae at Saturn….
New Leicester space research has revealed, for the first time, a complex ‘tug-of-war’ lights up aurorae in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, using a combination of data…
Archaeologists have unearthed the first Roman mosaic of its kind in the UK. A Roman villa complex containing a rare mosaic has been discovered beneath…
A promising new approach to potentially treat Alzheimer’s disease – and also vaccinate against it – has been developed by a team of UK and…
Leicester study of data captured in orbit around Jupiter has revealed new insights into what’s happening deep beneath the gas giant’s distinctive and colorful bands….
An international team of researchers have identified a new method for clearing senescent cells, which could transform treatments for aging and related conditions. Health scientists…
New research published in Nature has revealed the solution to Jupiter’s “energy crisis,” which has puzzled astronomers for decades. Space scientists at the University of…
Slow walkers are almost four times more likely to die from COVID-19, and have over twice the risk of contracting a severe version of the…
A novel state of matter has been discovered by physicists at the University of Leicester. In recent years, active, self-propelled particles have received growing interest…
A new animal species related to crabs and shrimp, preserved in 430-million-year-old rocks in Herefordshire, England, presents a rare look at the respiratory organs of…
A UK team of astronomers report the first detection of matter falling into a black hole at 30% of the speed of light, located in…
The discovery of a dark ribbon of weak hydrogen ion emissions that encircles Jupiter has overturned previous thinking about the giant planet’s magnetic equator. An…
A Leicester mathematician has developed a theory to explain ‘heating by cooling,’ where the temperature of a granular gas increases while the total energy drops…
A unique collection of Iron Age metal artifacts that sheds new light on feasting rituals among prehistoric communities has been discovered by archaeologists from the…
Using the Swift Satellite Observatory, scientists reveal what was likely the most luminous white dwarf eruption ever seen. Astronomers have today announced that they have…
