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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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Make mine a decaf study increases knowledge of nanoparticle growth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/make-mine-a-decaf-study-increases-knowledge-of-nanoparticle-growth
A team of researchers from Leicester's Department of Physics and Astronomy and France’s G2ELab-CNRS in Grenoble have for the first time observed the growth of free nanoparticles in helium gas in a process similar to the decaffeination of coffee, providing new...
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NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (Cardiovascular) Staff
https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/people/brc-cv-staff
Browse the NIHR BRC staff working in the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Leicester. Find out how to get in touch via email.
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Interpreting historical sources
https://le.ac.uk/history/outreach/besh/historical-sources
History at the University of Leicester - Building and Enriching Shared Heritages project. This section covers interpreting documents, counting sources, interpreting buildings and gravestones, monuments and memorials.
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1st August 2015 Sol 1060
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/08/01/1st-august-2015-sol-1060/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 1, 2015 Successful drilling at Buckskin! Like the other drill holes this is showing how thin red Mars is.
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2nd January 2016 Sol 1211
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/01/02/2nd-january-2016-sol-1211/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 2, 2016 This HiRISE image taken from Mars Reconaissance Orbiter shows Curiosity in its current position at the margin of the steep slope of the Bagnold dunes.
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15th June 2013 Sol 305
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/06/15/15th-june-2013-sol-5/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 15, 2013 This is a NavCam image showing that we have successfully placed the robotic arm turret against this Point Lake outcrop in order to get MAHLI imagery and an APXS analysis.
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29th July 2016 Sol 1415
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/07/29/29th-july-2016-sol-1415/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 29, 2016 We are getting some fantastic views of Murray Buttes, with Mt Sharp in the background.The Murray mudstone forms the low ground around the buttes.
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Locating the mortal remains of Richard III within the choir
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/locating-the-remains
Finding the grave and realising was an interesting and important skeleton buried there.
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Geerten Vuister
https://le.ac.uk/people/geerten-vuister
The academic profile of Professor Geerten Vuister, Professor in Structural Biology at University of Leicester