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• Space Park Leicester to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Beagle 2 Mars Lander: lost and found

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/beagle-2-lecture

  Professor Mark Sims will give a lecture to mark the 20th anniversary of the landing of the Beagle 2 Mars Lander, held at Space Park Leicester on 8 December

• Networks of knowledge then and now: digital potential

  https://le.ac.uk/insular-manuscripts/workshops/digital-potential

  The second of three workshops on Insular Manuscripts, taking place in Dublin and Galway in 2018, it covered early Irish manuscripts, an e-codices project and multispectral imaging of manuscripts.

• Sharpest Earth-based images of Europa and Ganymede reveal their icy landscape

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/10/11/sharpest-earth-based-images-of-europa-and-ganymede-reveal-their-icy-landscape/

  The cocktail of chemicals that make up the frozen surfaces on two of Jupiter's largest moons are revealed in the most detailed images ever taken of them by a telescope on Earth.

• Panel Event: Competing for Space Superiority? Arms Racing, Rivalries and Hype in Space

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/05/04/panel-event-competing-for-space-superiority-arms-racing-rivalries-and-hype-in-space/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 4 May 2021 Join us for an in-depth discussion, led by Dr Bleddyn Bowen, on the realities behind the rhetoric of arms racing, rivalries and other types of hype in space.

• Illuminating collection of rare books in new Library exhibition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/illuminating-collection-of-rare-books-in-new-library-exhibition

  A new exhibition “Light” dedicated to the International Year of Light, an initiative of the United Nations, opens this week in the University Library.

• On threats to freedom of expression in Hungary: blog post by cartoonist Gabor Papai

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/covid-in-cartoons/2022/01/14/on-threats-to-freedom-of-expression-in-hungary-blog-post-by-cartoonist-gabor-papai/

  A blog post written by cartoonsit Gabor Papai on freedom of expression in Hungary and during the Covid-19 pandemic

• Fire in Maurice Shock Medical Sciences Building - media statements

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/fire-in-maurice-shock-medical-sciences-building-media-statements

  The lab was damaged by fire and the vicinity affected by smoke and water damage. The fire was dealt with by the fire service within minutes. Over the weekend, University teams along with other services will assess the building for the extent of the damage.

• Lose Yourself on Mars with Attenborough Arts Centre

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/26/lose-yourself-on-mars-with-attenborough-arts-centre/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 26 October 2020 There’s no place like… Mars. Book a 30-minute slot and utterly lose yourself… The Attenborough Arts Centre “Mariner 9” exhibition has been extended.

• White Dwarfs

  https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/astrophysics/white-dwarfs

  White dwarfs are the end products of the life cycles of more than 90% of all stars. This makes them important laboratories for studying stellar evolution and the behaviour of matter at extremes of temperature and density.

• Children with multiple long-term conditions hospitalised with COVID are almost three times more likely to die, new study shows.

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/covid-children

  Individuals with multiple long-term conditions are two and a half times more likely to die following COVID-19 infection than others.