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Physics stars
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.
Stories written by Hayley Dunning
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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.
Detecting dark matter
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.
Cloud control
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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Antibody levels
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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Heating up
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.
Metals to the rescue
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.
News in brief
Tricky turbulence and lung cancer links: News from the College
Here’s a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.
Explosive physics
Throwing an ‘axion bomb’ into a black hole challenges fundamental law of physics
New research shows how the fundamental law of conservation of charge could break down near a black hole.
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Podcast: Radiation impacts, sickle cell disease and the Four Horsemen
In this edition: We examine the impact of radiation from nuclear accidents, meet a Sickle Cell Warrior, and follow those fighting the Four Horsemen.
