Hydrogen & heating
Annual lecture explores hydrogen’s role in decarbonising heat on net zero path
Dr Angela Needle, Director of Strategy of Cadent Gas, gave the 2021 Sustainable Gas Institute (SGI) annual lecture.
Stories written by Caroline Brogan
Funding frontier research
Boundary-pushing research projects boosted by President’s Excellence Fund
Projects making nanomagnetic computers, sustainable packaging, improved vaccine carriers, and cut-and-paste chemistry have won up to £250k each.
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Ammonite insight
Rare Jurassic fossil reveals never-before-seen ammonite muscles in 3D
For the first time, researchers have revealed the soft tissues of a 165-million-year-old ammonite fossil using 3D imaging.
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COP26 and engineering
COP26: Q&A with leading engineer ahead of Academy ‘Ask the Engineers’ panel
Ahead of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s ‘Ask the Engineers’ panel, we spoke to Professor Nilay Shah about COP26’s achievements and next steps.
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Health pod
Podcast: HIV tests, infectious reading, and the fight for cheaper drugs
In this edition: A new test to monitor treatment-resistant HIV, a book tracing the fight against infection, and how the NHS can make cheaper drugs.
London air pollution
London pollution has improved with evidence for small initial ULEZ effect: study
London’s ULEZ reduced the city’s nitrogen dioxide levels by a few per cent during the first few weeks of its implementation.
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Electronic sensing
Scientists use graphene sheets to improve lab-on-chip diagnostic tests
Imperial College London researchers have improved an electronic sensor that can be used for fast detection of infectious diseases like COVID-19.
Under the radar
Proposed illegal image detectors on devices are ‘easily fooled’
Proposed algorithms that detect illegal images on devices can be easily fooled with imperceptible changes to images, Imperial research has found.
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Valve formation
Bioengineers find new way heart valves grow – and go wrong
Imperial bioengineers have discovered a new mechanism driving the growth of heart valves in zebrafish embryos.
Future of natural gas
Use of natural gas will decline if we are to achieve 1.5°C climate targets
A new review from Imperial has found that the use of natural gas will reduce by 35% by 2050 in order to meet climate targets.
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