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Excitement builds for launch of James Webb Space Telescope
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/jwst-launch
MIRI, like much of JWST’s instrumentation, will be protected from the intense radiation of the Sun by a huge five-layer sunshade which will unfold remotely as the telescope journeys to its final destination, around Lagrange point 2 (L2), where the gravitational pull of the...
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Sunday 4th Nov 2012 Sol 88
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/11/04/sunday-4th-nov-2012-sol-88/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 4, 2012 Research into trace gases in the Mars atmosphere, for instance ground based studies of the martian atmosphere, have suggested that tens of parts per billion of the molecules might be methane.
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New drugs to prevent tuberculosis could be developed thanks to this novel cell wall breakthrough
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/3-cell-wall-breakthrough
Hero tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosisis|Research has identified a novel regulatory mechanism, which when deactivated, results in the death of the life-threatening pathogen.
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Sunday August 19th Sol 14
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/20/sunday-august-14th-sol-14/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 20, 2012 Excellent ChemCam LIBS (Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Results) on our first rock. This means that in addition to imaging data from MastCam we are now getting compositional data.
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Monday 20th August Sol 15
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/21/monday-20th-august-sol-15/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 21, 2012 The robotic arm has been moved for the first time. This is the 70 kg instrument which carries the X-ray spectrometer and close up imager MAHLI.
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Take part in the PERFORM trial
https://le.ac.uk/perform/take-part
Patient information and resources Patient Information Sheet (PDF, 842kb) Patient Recruitment Poster (PDF, 298kb) Follow us on X: @PerformTrial or Bluesky: performtrial.bsky.social
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Santa’s sleigh flies with the power of the Apollo mission rocket
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/santa-sleigh-engine
Santa’s sleigh would require equivalent thrust to that produced by the Saturn V rocket or 150 Boeing 747-400 engines, University of Leicester students have found.
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Esteemed academics from top UK universities to take part in Black in Academia panel event at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/esteemed-academics-from-top-uk-universities-to-take-part-in-2018black-in-academia2019-panel-event-at-leicester
An upcoming event at the University of Leicester will see some of Britain’s leading academic minds take part in a discussion on equality in Higher Education on Thursday 26 October.
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Research explores what Google can tell us about the memory web in the brain
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/research-explores-what-google-can-tell-us-about-the-memory-web-in-the-brain
A new study by researchers from the Centre for Systems Neuroscience at our University, in collaboration with the University of California Los Angeles, has helped to untangle ‘the memory web’ by shedding light on how neurons in memory-related areas provide a long-term coding...
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Sunday 3rd September Sol 27
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/03/sunday-3rd-september-sol-27/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 3, 2012 We have had our first day off, done by planning two sols at once. In the meantime we discuss the results so far and enjoy some of the NavCam images from Sol 26.