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Book Launch Event: Original Sin: Power, Technology, and War in Outer Space
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/10/04/book-launch-event-original-sin-power-technology-and-war-in-outer-space/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 4 October 2022 Everyone is warmly invited to join Dr.
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The Competition for ESA’s Next Astronauts – Naomi Rowe-Gurney
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/06/25/the-competition-for-esas-next-astronauts-naomi-rowe-gurney/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 25 June 2021 Applications for ESA’s next astronauts recently closed, and several Leicester scientists were among the 22,500 people who applied – PhD student Naomi Rowe-Gurney was featured in the Telegraph ,...
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Silent witnesses: corals pinpoint the start of deforestation in Borneo
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/corals-pinpoint-deforestation-borneo
University of Leicester scientists analyse the chemical composition of corals to spot the signs of deforestation, filling a huge gap in environmental data on deforestation impacting coastal ecosystems
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EVENT: PhD Research Bites
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2023/02/16/event-phd-research-bites/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 16 February 2023 Please join us next week on Wednesday 22nd February from 1-3pm in the LTB, for a new style of Physics Research Bites – PhDating! 11 PhD students will give 3 minute talks on their research...
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Modern scientist vs. 1600s scientist: Moon landings
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2023/02/14/modern-scientist-vs-1600s-scientist-moon-landings/
Modern planetary scientist Dr Suzie Imber critiques John Wilkins's incredible 17th c. book on space travel
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Celebrating International Women’s Day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/03/22/celebrating-international-womens-day/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 22 March 2021 International Women’s Day 2021 was celebrated on 8 March 2021 with a programme of online events. The wall of women returned to the University in virtual form.
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Productive Alternatives to Boris Johnson’s Cheesy Vision of Homeworking
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2022/05/17/productive-alternatives-to-boris-johnsons-cheesy-vision-of-homeworking/
Hybrid working solves the trade-off of home versus office working, with benefits for both employees and employers, writes ULSB's Professor Stephen Wood.
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First Forty Years of Physics at Leicester 1924-64
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2023/01/04/first-forty-years-of-physics-at-leicester-1924-64/
Professor Ken Pounds looks back upon the first four decades of Physics at the University of Leicester.
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First post-Covid International Astronomy Conference at the University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/11/01/planet-and-binary-formation-conference-at-the-university-of-leicester/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 1 November 2022 An international astronomy conference on planet and binary formation took place at University of Leicester in mid-September 2022.
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Indigenous Geographies of Carceral Islands
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/10/23/indigenous-geographies-of-carceral-islands/
Essay about the indigenous georaphies on three Australian convict islands - Melville; Cockatoo; Rottnest