A royal appointment for Imperial researchers

This month Imperial returns to the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition, where the UK's most exciting new science and technology will be on show.

Across four exhibits featuring Imperial research, visitors will be racing cells with lasers, photographing the calorie content of their lunch, testing their skills in uncovering the next Higgs boson of particle physics, and trying to make themselves heard by robotic ears in a noisy environment.

Researchers are putting the last touches to their exhibits and making final preparations for the exhibition that starts on Tuesday 30 June. You can read their updates on social media, retweet and ask them questions, by following the hashtag #summerscience. You can read highlights in the Storify at the foot of this page.

Amongst the Imperial delegation will be Professor David Klug from the Department of Chemistry, showcasing new techniques to study single cells, and Professor Arttu Rajantie from the Department of Physics, searching for the illusive magnetic monopole, a hypothetical magnetic particle that has just one pole; North or South.

They will be joined by a team from the Hamlyn Centre, led by Professor Guang Zhong-Yang, with new apps and wearable sensors to transform healthcare, and Dr Patrick Naylor’s Communication and Signal Processing group from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, attempting to improve how machines hear.

As part of the week's packed schedule of public events, Dr Shelley Moram from the Department of Materials will be giving a talk about the secret life of crystals, in which she and the audience will explore these atomic structures that exist in many everyday objects from phones to cars, plants, medicines and your food.

"The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition is a fantastic hands-on celebration of science for all ages, and a great opportunity for people to meet and quiz real-life researchers," said Katie Weeks, Research Events Manager at Imperial College London, who leads the College's public engagement activities.

Entry is free for visitors of all ages from Tuesday 30 June until Sunday 5 July 2015. The Royal Society website has more information about times and how to get there.