Imperial News

Podcast: listening for gravitational waves and swapping the lab for government

by Sam Wong

A physicist plots an audacious space mission, a medical student invents an antibiotic, and two scientists get a taste of Westminster.

The podcast is presented by Gareth Mitchell, a lecturer on Imperial'sScience Communication MSc course and the presenter of Click Radio on the BBC World Service, with contributors from the Communications and Public Affairs Division.

 

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News - The College’s next leader is announced and a gene therapy for Parkinson’s disease shows promise in its first human trial.

eLISA mission - Professor Tim Sumner (Physics) explains how the European Space Agency plans to detect gravitational waves, one of the most elusive phenomena in astronomy

Westminster is a more scary environment than scaling a volcano, and more confusing.

– Dr James Hammond

Earth Science and Engineering

From lab to legislature – James Hammond (Earth Science and Engineering) and Stepan Lucyszyn (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) spent a week in Westminster as part of the Royal Society’s pairing scheme.

A new antibiotic? – Medical student Thomas Webb has designed a drug that could defeat the most resistant bacteria – but he needs donations to put it to the test.

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