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A giant black hole in the Milky Way
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2024/04/30/a-giant-black-hole-in-the-milky-way/
Posted by Physics and Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 30 April 2024 A sleeping giant The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has discovered a black hole 33 times the mass of the Sun. It is in the constellation Aquila, less than 2000 light-years from Earth.
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Ribbon wraps up mystery of Jupiters magnetic equator
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/ribbon2019-wraps-up-mystery-of-jupiter2019s-magnetic-equator
The discovery of a dark ribbon of weak hydrogen ion emissions that encircles Jupiter has overturned previous thinking about the giant planet’s magnetic equator.
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Map of the Ukraine war.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/06/24/map-of-the-ukraine-war/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2022 Institute for the Study of War: Interactive Ukraine Map Now available using ArcGis an interactive map of the current situation on the war in Ukraine.
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American Studies student to take the long way home for charity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/american-studies-student-to-take-the-long-way-home-for-charity
A student will join one of his oldest friends on a daunting 60-mile-a-day cycling trip from Austria to England in a mere 24 days.
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Mapping vanished Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/01/06/mapping-vanished-leicester/
More than 1000 photographs of streets and individual buildings in Leicester demolished between 1955 to 1975, mainly as a result of the postwar slum clearance programme, but also in connection with other developments.
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Researchers use NASA’s Webb to map weather of planet 280 light-years away
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/clouds-wasp-43b
Atmospheric modelling led in part by University of Leicester reveals true extent of clouds on distant world reveals WASP-43 b is cloudy on the nightside but mostly clear on the dayside, with equatorial winds howling around the planet at 5,000 miles per hour
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‘Closing the Gender Pay gap would take 95 years’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/24/closing-the-gender-pay-gap-would-take-95-years/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 24, 2017 Across OECD nations at current rates of progress according to the latest PWC Women in work report.
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The Cinematic Spectacle that Class War has become
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/03/18/the-cinematic-spectacle-that-class-war-has-become/
Posted by Chris Land in School of Business Blog on March 18, 2015 Our recently appointed Reader in Work and Organisation, Christopher Land , takes it upon himself to dethrone the anti-working class morals symptomatic within films such as, though by no means limited to,...
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Leicester leads the way against COVID-19
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/covid-response
A complete response The University of Leicester has been at the forefront of the conversation into universities’ reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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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...