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Scientists to share science behind James Webb Space Telescope this half term
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/galaxies-assemble
Space scientists from the University of Leicester will demonstrate the cutting-edge science behind the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at the National Space Centre this October half term.
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UK Web Archive launches new search interface
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/12/15/uk-web-archive-launches-new-search-interface/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2017 Now in beta a new improved search service for tracing historic websites.
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Global Social Responses to Covid-19 Web Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/17/global-social-responses-to-covid-19-web-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 17, 2021 The Ivy Plus web archive is creating a record of the evolution of Covid-19’s social impact since March 2020 by preserving snapshots of key websites from areas of the global...
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The World Wide Web is 30 years old
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/18/the-world-wide-web-is-30-years-old/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 18, 2019 On March 12, 1989, British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitted his proposal for what would become the World Wide Web to his boss at the European Organization for...
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New United States elections (and other political) web archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/17/new-united-states-elections-and-other-political-web-archives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 17, 2018 The Library of Congress has just released a mass of themed web archive collections.
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James Webb Space Telescope’s coolest instrument captures Large Magellanic Cloud
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/04/28/james-webb-space-telescopes-coolest-instrument-captures-large-magellanic-cloud/
The UK’s main contribution to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), has now opened its eye to the sky.
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Engineering Building takes pride of place in East Midlands fbe Awards 2017
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/engineering-building-takes-pride-of-place-in-east-midlands-fbe-awards-2017
The refurbishment of the Engineering Building roof at our University has been crowned the overall winner at the East Midlands fbe Awards 2017.
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University of Leicester receives VIP visit
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/university-of-leicester-receives-vip-visit
Our University has today welcomed a VIP from the United States of America. It is a common misconception that ‘VIP’ always stands for Very Important Person. Actually, sometimes it stands for Very Important Per.
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Excitement builds for launch of James Webb Space Telescope
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/jwst-launch
MIRI, like much of JWST’s instrumentation, will be protected from the intense radiation of the Sun by a huge five-layer sunshade which will unfold remotely as the telescope journeys to its final destination, around Lagrange point 2 (L2), where the gravitational pull of the...
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Fighting Disinformation Online: Building the Database of Web Tools
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/fighting-disinformation-online-building-the-database-of-web-tools/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 A new report from think tank Rand describes the building of the database which has links to useful sources for researchers on detecting spam, codes, credibility scoring,...