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29 October 2025

Opening doors: building pathways to access in chemistry education

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10 October 2025

Climbing Kilimanjaro: A Conversation with Erika Rosivatz

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18 September 2025

A Laureate for a Greener Future: Sustainable Chemist Honoured with IETI Award

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10 September 2025

Celebrating Research Excellence at Chemistry's Annual MRes Symposium Week

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04 September 2025

Imperial celebrates €10million European grant success

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28 August 2025

Professor Kim Jelfs awarded prestigious Faraday Discovery Fellowship

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27 August 2025

Behind the scenes: A-level results day

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28 July 2025

First (Gen)AI in chemistry education workshop held at Imperial

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24 July 2025

Chemistry's Student Work Placement Programme

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13 July 2025

Myricx Bio wins Cancer Research Horizons Start-Up Achievement Award

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13 July 2025

DNA’s hidden shape reveals target to reverse ovarian cancer chemoresistance

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10 July 2025

Ed Tate named Imperial Enterprise Academic Entrepreneur of the Year

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09 July 2025

Year 10 Taster Days 2025

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30 June 2025

Celebrating Discovery: Highlights from the 2025 Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium

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27 May 2025

Chemistry’s New Frontiers: Insights from Inaugural Lectures

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13 May 2025

Chemistry Offer Holder Days 2025

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05 May 2025

Solena raises $6.7m to create next-gen textiles using AI and synthetic biology

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24 April 2025

Newlands Lecture 2025: Presented by Professor Perdita Barran

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16 April 2025

Imperial on tour 2025: chemistry on the road

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18 March 2025

Retrosynthesis Competition: Chemistry Students Take Prize for Second Year

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21 February 2025

Remembering Nobel Laureate Sir James Fraser Stoddart

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18 February 2025

£2m for UK-Japan team to create an energy boost for synthetic cells

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06 February 2025

Chemistry of Light: A Taster Lecture for Prospective Students at Imperial

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04 February 2025

Unlocking Opportunities in Advanced Semiconductor Defect Analysis

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03 February 2025

New spinout RemePhy to use plants to tackle worldwide soil contamination

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22 January 2025

Lixea plans commercial-scale demo plant and builds towards a greener world

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13 January 2025

Presentation at CTiP meeting

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16 December 2024

UK Researchers Awarded £6.4M Grant to Study Protein Dynamics and Cell Health

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06 December 2024

Imperial projects among 100 new discovery projects awarded £80m of govt funding

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06 December 2024

Maths Homework Club, solar panels and asthma attacks: News from Imperial

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04 December 2024

Imperial spinout Siftr Bio aims to improve precision of ADC cancer drugs

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07 November 2024

Exploring Molecular Glues: Insights from the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Lecture

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06 November 2024

AI-enhanced ‘sound sieve’ wins Imperial’s undergraduate innovation competition

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03 October 2024

Guest lecture by Matoha’s Dr Martin Holicky inspires huge turnout

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17 September 2024

Year 12 Taster Day 2024

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20 August 2024

Better arranged molecules could improve solar panel efficiency

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14 August 2024

The Brilliant Club 2024

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29 July 2024

Year 12 Sutton Trust Summer School 2024

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19 July 2024

Year 10 Taster Days 2024

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11 July 2024

Department of Chemistry Welcomes Summer Research Student from MIT

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08 July 2024

Imperial and Crick cancer drug spinout raises £90m to begin clinical development

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18 June 2024

Advancing Chemistry Research at Imperial with The Derek Wyles Equipment Fund

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17 June 2024

Department of Chemistry Welcomes Canadian Exchange Student

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12 June 2024

Record number of Imperial academics win Royal Society of Chemistry Prizes

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20 May 2024

Department of Chemistry Launches New Postgraduate Course

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07 May 2024

Dr James Bull and Team Receive Prestigious Award for Organic Chemistry Research

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30 April 2024

Department of Chemistry Launches Ideation Space ‘DigiBox’

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22 April 2024

Chemistry Secures £31k to Expand World of Food Workshop for Equality & Inclusion

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01 April 2024

New synthesis platform allows for rapid cancer drug synthesis and testing

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25 March 2024

Chemistry undergraduates win national retrosynthesis competition audience prize

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12 March 2024

EPSRC CDT in Chemical Biology: Empowering UK Biotech Innovation

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15 February 2024

Climate Solutions Catalyst aims to boost innovation from academic research

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06 February 2024

Imperial and Liverpool to lead UK’s flagship £12m AI for Chemistry Hub

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11 January 2024

New class of cancer and immunology drug targets mapped with new tagging system

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30 December 2023

Members of Imperial community recognised in New Year Honours

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12 December 2023

Agilent Measurement Suite given highest award for sustainability framework

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12 December 2023

Behind the scenes: Imperial’s outreach summer schools

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08 December 2023

Imperial launches new MSc in Cleantech Innovation

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01 December 2023

Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel of Sweden visit Imperial

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06 November 2023

Chemistry hosts summer placement scheme for Black-heritage sixth form students

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01 September 2023

Professor Oscar Ces appointed to Hofmann Chair of Chemistry

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20 July 2023

New database of drug targets will help fight incurable diseases

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13 July 2023

Giving Research a New Spin

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11 July 2023

Natural killer cell therapy under development by new Imperial startup

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30 June 2023

Startups tackling plastic waste and ECG monitors win the ICB CDT Dragons' Den

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30 June 2023

Industry 4.0 and entrepreneurship: the past, present and future of the ICB

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13 June 2023

Synthetic chemist and battery-membrane team win RSC awards

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08 June 2023

Meet the undergraduate startups looking to make a difference

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23 May 2023

Imperial and Agilent renew partnership for flagship analytical science facility

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22 May 2023

New partnership will use molecular glues to tackle ‘undruggable’ disease targets

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22 May 2023

Industry consortium to develop modern chemical manufacturing methods

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05 May 2023

Awardees recognised for excellence in the Faculty of Natural Sciences

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26 April 2023

DigiFAB expands core leadership team

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21 March 2023

Postdoctoral researchers and fellows present their work in a first-time showcase

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21 March 2023

‘Nature’s Cleanser’ wins science photography competition for PhD students

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20 March 2023

Scientists develop a sprayable graphene biosensor

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13 March 2023

Imperial opens new education and welfare spaces in Chemistry Building

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21 February 2023

Research shows how human cells are protected when the immune system switches on

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14 February 2023

Professor Ed Tate appointed to the GSK Chair in Chemical Biology

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12 December 2022

Imperial and Royal Institution drive next generation of climate startups

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09 December 2022

Recycled gold from SIM cards could help make drugs more sustainable

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22 November 2022

Imperial education team wins prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry Prize

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02 November 2022

CRISPR-based oligo recombineering in drug discovery

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07 October 2022

Alexei Kornyshev wins International Society of Electrochemistry Gold Medal

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23 September 2022

Flexible movement sensors and bacterial toxins: News from the College

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05 September 2022

FoNS at the Frontiers

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26 August 2022

Tracking electrons in solar cells shows even faster reactions than thought

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26 August 2022

Hydrogen fuel breakthrough prize and barcoding parasites: News from the College

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24 August 2022

Royal Society awards Imperial physicist for his dedication to equity in science

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12 August 2022

Immune system insights and Thai climate calculator: News from the College

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10 August 2022

Celebrating excellence across FoNS

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19 July 2022

Imperial students celebrate first test launch in space rocket programme

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18 July 2022

Imperial and BASF in major partnership to advance future of chemical production

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13 July 2022

Analytical science facility celebrates progress in materials, medicine and more

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12 July 2022

Electrochemistry and climate equity: IMSE's 4th annual lecture

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06 July 2022

Imperial celebrates London top spot, as NSS results are revealed

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01 July 2022

President's and Provosts awards winners across FoNS

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27 June 2022

Going for LEAF Gold

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22 June 2022

FoNS at the Great Exhibition Road Festival 2022!

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14 June 2022

Ultrafast lasers used to probe next-generation solar cells

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09 June 2022

Meet the women leading Imperial’s most exciting new startups

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08 June 2022

Imperial experts to develop low-cost digital crop virus sensors with $1m grant

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07 June 2022

Spin-controlling materials team win prestigious Horizon Prize

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02 June 2022

Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honours recognise Imperial academics

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01 June 2022

REF 2021: a huge thank you from FoNS Dean, Professor Richard Craster

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27 May 2022

Imperial materials scientist wins L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science fellowship

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16 May 2022

IMSE and DigiFAB Datathon: Molecular Adsorption to Surfaces

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04 May 2022

Chemistry busts harmful tanning products for the BBC

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03 May 2022

Dual membrane offers hope for long-term energy storage

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25 April 2022

Cheaper hydrogen fuel cell could mean better green energy options

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21 April 2022

Cheaper solar cells could be on the way thanks to materials created at Imperial

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05 April 2022

Imperial wins University Challenge for historic fourth time

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10 March 2022

STEM for Britain: Imperial researchers showcase their research in Parliament

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07 March 2022

Creating a FoNS ECR data science network: meet our new Ambassadors

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03 March 2022

Imperial featured in Impact and Innovation 110 publication

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03 March 2022

Imperial launches Latin America scholarships for women in STEM

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02 March 2022

Fuel cell disruptor Bramble Energy raises £35 million

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19 January 2022

Predictive software pioneer wins premier UK Young Scientist award

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10 January 2022

Three Imperial “rising stars” secure €4.5 million of ERC funding

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10 January 2022

Imperial announces winners of 2022 Alumni Awards

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21 December 2021

Structure, mechanism, and inhibition of Hedgehog Acyltransferase

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21 December 2021

A new platform for controlled design of printed electronics with 2D materials

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20 December 2021

‘Wonder material’ phosphorene nanoribbons live up to hype in first demonstration

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08 December 2021

Boundary-pushing research projects boosted by President’s Excellence Fund

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03 December 2021

Chemical kitchens and choosing mates: News from the College

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03 December 2021

Long-range four-stranded DNA structures found to play a role in ageing disease

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24 November 2021

Cleantech companies join forces to scale up hydrogen tech for renewable power

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09 November 2021

Imperial.Tech.Pitch: Industry-applicable research capabilities and innovations

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27 October 2021

UK Autumn Budget 2021: Imperial experts respond

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21 October 2021

Imperial College London experts comment on UK Net Zero Strategy

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20 October 2021

Thousands graduate at first in-person Commemoration Day since 2019

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11 October 2021

Facility launched to study complex molecules and materials with electron spins

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11 October 2021

Imperial academic wins AstraZeneca prize in synthetic chemistry

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28 September 2021

Biodegradable plastics startup Polymateria secures $100 million deal

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17 September 2021

Two Imperial women awarded Rising Talents fellowships from UNESCO and L’Oreal

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14 September 2021

Imperial startup developing hygiene-verification technology raises £625,000

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10 September 2021

Insight into power generation in photosynthesis may lead to more resilient crops

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27 August 2021

Engagement Academy accredited by the Institute of Leadership and Management

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27 August 2021

Merck Innovation Cup win

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26 August 2021

Imperial supports Russell Group and Open University platform for new students

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23 August 2021

Imperial’s new Saturday Science Club inspires families in White City

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16 August 2021

Quick way to create molecular cages could revamp search for new materials

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16 August 2021

Imperial enters new era in partnership with Twig Education

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02 August 2021

Imperial, HKU and Peking University announce chemistry research collaboration

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30 July 2021

Prize-winning female chemists deliver engaging outreach and community support

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13 July 2021

Metal-based molecules show promise against the build-up of Alzheimer’s peptides

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25 June 2021

Prestigious awards honour Imperial community

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17 June 2021

Innovative use of XR in Imperial teaching profiled during Education Week

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14 June 2021

Imperial and PETRONAS open centre for greener and more advanced energy systems

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04 June 2021

Building a career in and around data science

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28 May 2021

£30 million official backing for greenhouse gas removal programme

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26 May 2021

Imperial launches a new era of digital chemistry

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25 May 2021

Imperial researchers in world-leading partnership targeting industrial emissions

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20 May 2021

Zero Pressure with astronaut Helen Sharman

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13 May 2021

Printable circuits bring low-cost and high-performance wearables a step closer

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06 May 2021

Cardiovascular disease could be diagnosed earlier with new glowing probe

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05 May 2021

Behind-the-scenes: how to make a virtual multidisciplinary datathon happen

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07 April 2021

Cancer drugs could be delivered in molecular cages unlocked by light

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31 March 2021

DigiFAB and FoNS Data Science Datathon Competition: winners announced!

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17 March 2021

Congratulations to Léonie Strömich

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11 March 2021

Congratulations Ben Lewis

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25 February 2021

3D Virtual tour of White City Campus

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16 February 2021

Imperial research labs take on the sustainability challenge one degree at a time

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05 February 2021

Solar cells and better batteries: News from the College

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25 January 2021

Understanding new gen materials for low cost hydrogen from sunlight and water

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14 January 2021

White City’s new hoardings showcase Imperial’s innovation community

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08 January 2021

Rare quadruple-helix DNA found in living human cells with glowing probes

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18 December 2020

13 New Horizons grants awarded to Imperial academics for adventurous research

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11 December 2020

Flying through a comet’s tail and fighting fluorine: News from the College

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04 December 2020

Twisting light and COVID treatment: News from the College

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20 November 2020

Lab-in-a-box and remote experiments: Education news from Imperial

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16 November 2020

Imperial startup wins £4.5m investment to develop new cancer drugs

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02 November 2020

Working through a pandemic at the Agilent Measurement Suite

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06 October 2020

Agilent Measurement Suite celebrates early successes

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01 October 2020

Double detection of cell changes could diagnose disease earlier

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17 September 2020

Size determines how nanoparticles affect biological membranes

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07 August 2020

Layer of nanoparticles could improve LED performance and lifetime

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03 August 2020

Fuel cell startup powers to £5m Series A funding

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27 July 2020

£6 million award to drive next-generation solar technology into new applications

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23 July 2020

New way to tackle disease-causing proteins wins €20k in innovation competition

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20 July 2020

Formation of quadruple helix DNA tracked in live human cells for the first time

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17 July 2020

New membrane could cut emissions and energy use in oil refining

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08 July 2020

Discovery of a potent and selective covalent inhibitor of UCHL1

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24 June 2020

Bumper crop of researchers win Royal Society of Chemistry awards

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05 June 2020

Imperial and BASF partner to advance innovative form of chemical manufacturing

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01 June 2020

Food, Gastronomy and Science - Chemical Kitchen live streams on YouTube

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29 May 2020

New materials could make greener fast-charging batteries

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26 May 2020

Two Imperial researchers named World Economic Forum Young Scientists

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19 May 2020

Secondment opportunity: ICB CDT Project Manager

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05 May 2020

New collaboration to support essential medication manufacture in South Africa

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01 May 2020

New book can teach anyone how to derive a formula

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29 April 2020

Three Imperial researchers elected Fellows of the Royal Society

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03 April 2020

Artificial fog helps lasers shine brighter

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30 March 2020

Britain's first astronaut shares her thoughts on confinement and isolation

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26 March 2020

Growing plants without soil amongst frontier projects backed by President’s fund

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19 March 2020

Enzyme targeted by TB antibiotic later stops the drug by destroying it

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05 March 2020

Research in infectious diseases from across the Faculty of Natural Sciences

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02 March 2020

Imperial to lead transition to zero pollution

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12 February 2020

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Smart design of new materials could improve energy storage technologies

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31 January 2020

Saving salmon and coronavirus outbreak: News from the College

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30 January 2020

‘Chemical Kitchen’ celebrates first run with scientific and gastronomic feast

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15 January 2020

Imperial physicist and chemist honoured in premier young scientist awards

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10 January 2020

New centre to put London at heart of zero-carbon revolution

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