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Genetics and ethics and law for school and colleges
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/genetics-and-ethics-and-law/school-and-colleges
The University of Leicester's ethics page provides a variety of resources for students of varying levels.
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Genetics and ethics and law for higher education
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/genetics-and-ethics-and-law/higher-education
Genetics and ethics for higher education Genetics and ethics for higher education Close up of the word 'ethics' in a paragraph, being underlined by a red pen. Genetics and law for higher education Genetics and law for higher education Scales, gavel and law book on table.
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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,...
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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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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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Developing a research network to advance 21st-century museum ethics in theory and practice
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/research-network-to-advance-museum-ethics
RCMG brought together a research network to explore how the emerging theory of museum ethics can be translated effectively into practice.
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Ethics and effectiveness of drones and remote warfare to be explored
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/the-ethics-and-effectiveness-of-drones-and-remote-warfare-to-be-explored
The evolution of war will be discussed at a free conference on Wednesday 11 February which examines the historical and contemporary issues of remote warfare.
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Zombie apocalypse would potentially wipe out humanity in just 100 days students calculate
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/zombie-apocalypse-would-wipe-out-humanity-in-just-100-days-students-calculate
A real-life zombie outbreak would leave the world’s population in shambles, with less than 300 survivors remaining a mere one hundred days into the apocalypse, according to students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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Research shows new way lungs respond in asthma attacks
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/research-shows-new-way-lungs-respond-in-asthma-attacks
A team led by Professor Andrew Tobin (Department of Molecular and Cell Biology) and Dr Yassine Amrani (Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation) has discovered a new way in which the lungs operate during asthma that could lead to new treatments for...
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Expert discusses Salisbury nerve agent poisoning and threat of cyber-attacks
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/expert-discusses-salisbury-nerve-agent-poisoning-and-threat-of-cyber-attacks
Dr Rob Dover from our School of History, Politics and International Relations was recently interviewed by US show Knowledge@Wharton about the Salisbury nerve agent poisoning and the threat of potential cyber-attacks.