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First glimpse of Mercury for BepiColombo
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/bepicolombo-mercury
The mission comprises two science orbiters which will be delivered into complementary orbits around the planet by the Mercury Transfer Module in 2025.
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Students from Leicesters universities gain military skills
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/students-from-leicester2019s-universities-gain-military-skills
Students from Leicester’s two universities have been put through their paces – quite literally.
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Researchers make sand that flows uphill
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/sand-microrollers
Paper published in 'Nature Communications' details how applying magnetic forces to individual 'microroller' particles spurs collective motion—with counterintuitive results
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Meet Airbus Mars Rover Engineer Abbie Hutty – National Space Centre Live Q&A
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/01/29/meet-airbus-mars-rover-engineer-abbie-hutty-national-space-centre-live-qa/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 29 January 2021 Joining the National Space Centre online for a Facebook Live Q&A tonight (January 29th) is Abbie Hutty, mechanical engineer and Locomotion Subsystem Development Manager, Sample Fetch Rover...
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Fellowship Opportunities in Leicester Physics and Astronomy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/07/03/fellowship-opportunities-in-leicester-physics-and-astronomy/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 3 July 2020 The School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester welcomes applicants for the STFC Ernest Rutherford and Royal Society University Research Fellowship schemes.
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Research brings hope of new treatment for asthma sufferers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/research-brings-hope-of-new-treatment-of-asthma-sufferers
Improved treatments for people with severe asthma are a ‘step closer’ after a research team led by Dr Ruth Saunders from the Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation identified a breakthrough in the cause of airway narrowing.
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Leicester geneticists involved in research into the UKs leading cause of food poisoning
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/leicester-geneticists-involved-in-research-into-the-uks-leading-cause-of-food-poisoning
Geneticists at the University are involved in new research, led by the University of Liverpool, which reveals that the immune response of farmed chickens does not develop fast enough to fight off Campylobacter during their short lifespan.
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How the enclosure of common land sparked riots revolts and resistance in the Midlands
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/how-the-enclosure-of-common-land-sparked-riots-revolts-and-resistance-in-the-midlands
A series of riots by angry farmers opposing the enclosure of common land in the Midlands in 1607 will be the subject of this year’s Hoskins Lecture on 5 May.
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Archaeological Theory
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar2601
Module code: AR2601 What was gender like in the past? How are politics and the past entwined? How was the past different from the present? How can archaeology help us think differently about the present? These are some of the key questions posed by this exciting...
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Archaeology of Human Evolution
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar2605
Module code: AR2605 When did early humans start to walk on two legs? What were the earliest stone tools? What do 30,000 year old cave paintings mean? And how did brains, language and consciousness develop? These are just a few of the fascinating questions we will explore in...