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National Space Centre: Planetary Science at Space Lates
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/07/08/national-space-centre-planetary-science-at-space-lates/
Join Dr Henrik Melin (STFC James Webb Fellow) from University of Leicester, for this Space Lates at the National Space Centre on July 22nd.
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New understanding of ‘sociable’ slug behaviour calls for better pesticide targeting
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/slugs
Experts from the University of Leicester have been hot on the slime trail of the grey field slug population thanks to innovative technology that can tag and track the behaviour of the invertebrates.
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24th February 2014 Sol 552
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/02/24/24th-february-2014-sol-552/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on February 24, 2014 We have succesfully passed through Dingo Gap, and this NavCam image shows the rearward view, where we have driven over the dune.
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17th December 2014 Sol 840
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/12/17/17th-december-2014-sol-840/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 17, 2014 I am at the American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco. The big MSL news here is the publication of our discovery of methane in the martian atmosphere.
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3rd April 2015 Sol 945
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/04/03/3rd-april-2015-sol-945/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on April 3, 2015 The heavy noble gases argon, krypton and xenon are known for their non-reactive nature and on Earth used for many applications where a gas is needed to protect a surface from the reactive species in...
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Communication and Influence – An Essential Transferable Skill (or is it skills?).
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2017/03/29/communication-and-influence-an-essential-transferable-skill-or-is-it-skills/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on March 29, 2017 “The meaning of communication is the response you get” – Anthony Robbins.
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New award for improving agricultural monitoring from Space
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/03/25/new-award-for-improving-agricultural-monitoring-from-space/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 25 March 2020 Leicester physicists have recently been awarded a Met Office Newton grant to monitor vegetation health and stress from Space Food security has always been a major strategic issue related to...
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March 14th 2013 Sol 215
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/03/14/march-14th-2013-sol-215/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on March 14, 2013 The results from our drill hole are showing that the John Kein rocks include mudstone, with about 20% of it composed of a clay called smectite.
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9th Dec. 2013 Sol 478
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/12/09/9th-dec-2013-sol-478/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on December 9, 2013 Today is when the first set of papers about Yellowknife Bay are published.
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Biotechnology YES and Environment YES
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2015/03/30/biotech-yes-and-environ-yes/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on March 30, 2015 Once again applications are open for the 2015 versions of Biotechnology YES and Environment YES .