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Space firm behind pioneering ‘shoebox-sized laboratory’ comes to Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/frontier-shoebox-laboratory
Frontier Space Technologies is the latest company on the European Space Agency – Business Incubation Centre for the United Kingdom (ESA-BIC UK) programme at Space Park Leicester, the University of Leicester’s pioneering £100 million science and innovation park
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Frank, the Double Duchesse
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/11/08/frank-the-double-duchesse/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on November 8, 2016 Amongst the contents of the Fairclough Collection of engraved portraits, relating to political and social history in 17 th century Britain, we have recently discovered this delicately executed...
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Insights into visual supersense provided by new study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/leicester-researcher-gains-new-insights-into-human-visual-abilities
An experiment originally designed to test the visual abilities of octopuses and cuttlefish has provided researchers with new insights into a human supersense – the ability to perceive the polarisation of light.
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Video gallery of the Attenboroughs at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/attenboroughs/video-gallery
View the University of Leicester’s video gallery of Sir David Attenborough, Lord Richard Attenborough and Michael Attenborough OBE
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Garth Smithies Taylor (1896-1916)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/10/14/garth-smithies-taylor-1896-1916/
15 October 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the death in action of Lieutenant Garth Smithies Taylor, a name which many staff and students at the University will have unwittingly passed on numerous occasions when entering the Fielding Johnson Building.
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Donald Trump – Museums in the face of hate
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2017/01/30/donald-trump-museums-in-the-face-of-hate/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on January 30, 2017 A couple of weeks ago on Friday was one of the happiest days in our School calendar: Graduation Day.
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Deck the halls with Christmas lights all the way to space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/18-deck-halls-christmas-lights-space
A house illuminated with Christmas lights|University of Leicester students have calculated how many Christmas lights are needed to decorate a house to be visible from space.
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Fire and ice: the Antarctic volcanoes that hint at our climate future
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/john-smellie-antarctica-volcanoes-climate
Professor John Smellie, Honorary Professor in the School of Geology, Geography and the Environment, talks about his career and his love of the volcanoes of the Antarctic as he receives his second Polar Medal.
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Widening Participation programme puts aspiring law students in the dock
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/widening-participation-programme-puts-aspiring-law-students-in-the-dock
Aspiring law students from non-privileged backgrounds were given the opportunity to view the inner workings of the legal system last week, thanks to a programme run by the University of Leicester and the Sutton Trust.
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Mars Science Laboratory Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 22
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/page/22/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester