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Leicester Physicist Competing in Famelab 2020
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/04/24/leicester-physicist-competing-in-famelab-2020/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 24 April 2020 Leicester physicist takes part in the FameLab Northern Heat.
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Mars Sample Return is Underway with Mars2020 Launch
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/07/30/mars-sample-return-is-underway-with-mars2020-launch/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 30 July 2020 With the successful launch of Mars2020 from Cape Canaveral today the first stage in a long and complex sample return plan is finally underway – John Bridges explains on the Mars Science Laboratory...
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Doctoral College Inaugural Lectures
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/09/16/doctoral-college-inaugural-lectures/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 16 September 2020 Catch up on two Doctoral Lectures on Jupiter’s Northern Lights and Observing CO2 from Space Inaugural Lectures are where the very best of our research degree graduates get the chance to...
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Celebrating Leicester’s live music heritage as Radio 2 comes to town
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/gigs
While some of pop’s biggest names will be descending on Leicester this weekend for Radio 2 In The Park, it’s not the first time some of them have graced a stage within the LE1 postcode.
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Expert opinions cover Brexit Michael Gove Victorian dismemberment football and US nuclear command
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/expert-opinions-cover-brexit-michael-gove-and-victorian-dismemberment
Professor Panicos Demetriades from the Department of Economics has written an article for Think: Leicester giving his initial reaction to the Brexit vote.
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Multi-million-pound investment in a regional cryo-electron microscope facility at our University
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/multi-million-pound-investment-in-a-regional-cryo-electron-microscope-facility-at-our-university
Our University has led a successful bid, in partnership with the Universities of Warwick, Nottingham and Birmingham to establish a state-of-the-art Midlands regional cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) facility based at Leicester.
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Current Research Projects
https://le.ac.uk/sustainable-materials-processing/research/current-research-projects
The Materials Centre's current projects at the University of Leicester
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Marian Whitaker
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/marian-whitaker
The University has learned, with sadness, of the death of Mrs Marian Edna Whitaker, who passed away on 12 December 2022, aged 94.
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Explore new worlds with Leicester space scientists at National Space Centre’s UK in Space Festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/space-festival-nsc
University of Leicester researchers will join experts at a National Space Centre event for space enthusiasts of all ages.
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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.