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Thursday 4th October Sol 58
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/10/05/thursday-4th-october-sol-58/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 5, 2012 Previous missions suggest that the ‘soil’ on Mars is roughly basaltic in composition. However, on Earth sand is mainly composed of quartz (silica).
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Martin Quinn
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/mrq1/
Lecturer in Regional Development at the School of Management
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Seven year itch Henry VIIIs secret love
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/seven-year-itch-henry-viiis-secret-love
The Tudor monarch King Henry VIII is perhaps best known for his prodigious appetite for marriage, famously taking six wives during his lifetime – and now former University lecturer David Baldwin has published a book suggesting that he was close to...
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Chairs and Secretaries
https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/committees/chairs-secretaries
Find out the chairs and secretaries of each of the standing committees reporting to Senate and Council at the University of Leicester.
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BSL Level 3
https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/languages/british-sign-language/level-3
British Sign Language Level 3 course at Leicester University
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AWA Magazine online archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/04/21/awa-magazine-online-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 21, 2023 Free access to an online archive of the full run of one of the earliest independent African women’s magazines : AWA: la revue de la femme noire. 1964-1973.
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Prestigious Japanese documentary features Leicester researchers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/03-nhk-documentary-genomics
Japanese broadcaster NHK will feature the University of Leicester in a documentary show ‘NHK Special’, which will focus on developments in genomics. The documentary will air on Sunday 5 May, with the show attracting audiences in Japan in excess of 10 million people.
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Engineering students produce portable 3D printer
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/engineering-students-produce-portable-3d-printer
A team of fourth year engineering students has produced a functional portable 3D printer which has enabled them to print various objects including a set of cutlery and a set of teeth.
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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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Earth Observation research detects methane over Poland’s coal mines
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/methane-mines
Following methane observations from the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, we can now observe regions with enhanced methane concentrations from strong point sources all over the world.