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Airbus and Imperial invite girls to explore careers in aerospace engineering
As part of its ongoing commitment to women in science, Imperial hosted an Aeronautics open day to inspire the next generation of aerospace engineers.
E. coli rewired to control growth as experts let them make proteins for medicine
Experts have equipped biotech workhorse bacteria with feedback control mechanism to balance growth with making protein products.
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Visually-impaired inventor’s dream for smart baby buggy made real by students
A baby buggy which senses its environment through technology normally used in self-driving cars has been created by a team of student engineers.
Self-driving AI wheelchair edges closer to aiding people with disabilities
Robot expert’s team has won $50,000 to further develop an eye-controlled, artificially intelligent wheelchair.
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Year of Engineering and Aeronautics to take centre stage at Imperial Festival
Engineers will celebrate the Year of Engineering in the Enginuity Zone at this year’s Imperial Festival.
Cambridge Analytica is “only the beginning”: Imperial data expert weighs in
Dr Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye has warned of the risk of privacy attacks that happen through friends.
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Glassy beads hint at site of mysterious missing crater
Imperial experts have found a ‘breadcrumb trail’ of debris from an 800,000 year old meteor impact
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World’s first continuous room-temperature solid-state maser built using diamond
The breakthrough means masers - the microwave version of lasers - could now be used more widely in a range of applications.
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Cybersecurity experts: Device makers have “duty to keep users safe” from hacking
Well-connected smart devices at home and in healthcare are currently vulnerable to hacking, warn two new reports.
Transatlantic collaborations in molecular science and engineering
Professor Matt Tirrell, Director of the Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, visited Imperial last week.
