Schoolchildren at Farnborough International Airshow were treated to a science lesson with a difference, as Dr Suzie Imber from the University of Leicester joined Tim Peake to kick off a national summer holiday campaign to get kids making, inventing and discovering what they could achieve as enginee
Two pupils from Loughborough high School have been named winners at a national science and engineering competition, after designing a phone case and app capable of providing some protection to people in dangerous situations.
Professor Emma Bunce from the University of Leicester awarded Chapman Medal for outstanding research into gas giant planets
UK scientists from the University of Westminster have confirmed that a new blood test can detect if breast cancer has spread to other parts of the body in a research funded by the charity Against Breast Cancer.
New gene discovery could mean more personalised cancer care.
CEFALY Technology has produced an innovative band that is worn around the head to solve the global problem of migraine and other types of headaches.
New light has been shed on a 10th century Viking boat burial site at Swordle Bay in western Scotland, which was discovered by a team including University of Leicester researchers in 2011.
Images released from ESA’s Mars Express reveal a series of ‘pit-chains’ on the flanks of one of the largest volcanoes in the Solar System. Depending on their origin, they might be tempting targets in the search for microbial life on the Red Planet.
The National Space Centre in Leicester is home to the UK’s largest planetarium. Over the past ten years the dome has shown award winning content created in-house by NSC Creative.
In September 2010, Robonaut 2 (R2) will be taken to the ISS by the space shuttle 'Discovery'. Here, it will become the first humanoid robot to work in space.