News in brief
Going green and healthy competition: News from the College
Here’s a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.
Going green and healthy competition: News from the College
Here’s a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.
Malarial mosquitoes suppressed in experiments that mimic natural environments
Researchers have shown ‘gene drive’ technology, which spreads a genetic modification blocking female reproduction, works in natural-like settings.
InSight mission unveils the interior of Mars
The interior of Mars has for the first time been revealed using the seismometers carried on NASA's InSight mission to Mars.
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Physics students take first-year project to peer-reviewed paper
Two Physics students have turned their first-year project using real data from the Cassini mission into a peer-reviewed paper.
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Podcast: Long COVID, bioplastic solutions, and first-year physics success
In this edition: Delving into long covid, bioplastics and the future of recycling, and a first-year physics project that became a peer-reviewed paper.
Two dark matter detector heavyweights join forces to build new observatory
Hundreds of global researchers, including from Imperial College London, are planning the most sensitive dark matter detector ever built.
Global satellite data shows clouds will amplify global heating
A new approach to analyse satellite measurements of Earth’s cloud cover reveals that clouds are very likely to enhance global heating.
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COVID-19 antibodies persist at least nine months after infection
Testing of an entire Italian town shows antibody levels remain high nine months after SARS-CoV-2 infection, whether symptomatic or asymptomatic.
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New insight into how plasma heats up could help optimise fusion reactions
A new theory about how plasma works could move scientists closer to the goal of emission-free fusion energy.
Metal-based molecules show promise against the build-up of Alzheimer’s peptides
In lab tests, Imperial researchers have created a metal-based molecule that inhibits the build-up of a peptide associated with Alzheimer’s disease.