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Major endorsement for new space mission to find ‘Earth 2.0’
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/luvoir
Initial designs show some similarities to JWST, with a segmented telescope assembly and large sunshade to be deployed in orbit. But LUVOIR would boast a segmented mirror up to 16m in diameter – compared to the current record 6m diameter array fitted to JWST.
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Leicester academic discusses assisted suicide legislation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/leicester-academic-discusses-assisted-suicide-legislation
Dr Clark Hobson, from the University's School of Law, has written an article for BioEdge which examines the possibility of the blanket ban on assisted suicide in the UK being overturned. In the article for BioEdge, Dr Hobson said: "Noel Conway is 67 years old.
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What we know now
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/what-we-know-now
Analysis of the king’s skeleton not only aided its identification but also provided new insights into Richard III’s diet and lifestyle, and what he might have looked like.
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Physics and Astronomy Blog: Showcasing the cutting-edge research and diverse scientific community in
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/page/19/
Showcasing the cutting-edge research and diverse scientific community in the School of Physics and Astronomy.
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Nobel Prize: How Penrose, Genzel and Ghez helped put black holes at the centre of modern astrophysic
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/07/nobel-prize-how-penrose-genzel-and-ghez-helped-put-black-holes-at-the-centre-of-modern-astrophysics/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 7 October 2020 The award of this year’s Nobel prize in physics to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez will be greeted with enormous pleasure by physicists and astronomers worldwide.
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cl13
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/author/corinne_lambert/
The Dryad Collection – basket weaving Posted by cl13 in Library Special Collections on August 30, 2022 As I catalogue the Dryad Collection, I was surprised to see that the books on basket weaving not only included “How to” manuals, but also books that were concerned with the...
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Jenna Shaw
https://le.ac.uk/people/jenna-shaw
The academic profile of Ms Jenna Shaw, Deputy Programme Lead of Nursing; Lecturer of Children’s Nursing at University of Leicester
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The Lord of Misrule and his band of ‘lusty guts’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/12/20/the-lord-of-misrule-and-his-band-of-lusty-guts/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on December 20, 2016 Behaving badly at the Christmas festivities and doing something you would really rather not remember is not an exclusively modern phenomenon, as a trawl through our Special Collections reveals –...
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Competition winners to receive photographs signed by Tim Peake
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/competition-winners-to-receive-photographs-signed-by-tim-peake
Children will be awarded their chosen photographs taken by astronauts at a ceremony at the National Space Centre this week.
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Queer Diasporas: Islam, Homosexuality and a Micropolitics of Dissent
https://le.ac.uk/english/research/research-projects/past-projects/queer-diasporas
The Queer Diasporas project ran from September 2014 - August 2017. The study’s main aim was to challenge acerbic views on Muslim citizens by foregrounding their politically significant sexual dissidence.