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NASA’s IMAP mission launches with Imperial magnetometer on board

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12 August 2024

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Navigation and positioning research to support new £21 million quantum hub

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14 June 2024

Professor Sir John Pendry awarded Kyoto Prize for advanced technology

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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

Discover the undergraduate startups tackling global challenges

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18 April 2024

Imperial academic wins €2.4m European funding to improve solar harvesting tech

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17 April 2024

Shape-shifting cancer cell discovery reveals potential skin cancer drug targets

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17 April 2024

Crucial connection for ‘quantum internet’ made for the first time

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Q&A – How do we find gravity's true nature?

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25 March 2024

Imperial scientists lead new search for hidden particles at CERN

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Imperial-built instrument jets off to NASA ahead of major solar wind mission

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Climate Solutions Catalyst aims to boost innovation from academic research

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Two Imperial academics win significant European funding

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30 January 2024

Imperial wins £7.7m grant to build the next generation of metamaterials

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25 January 2024

UK universities partner with US lab to build a new quantum experiment

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13 November 2023

Twisted magnets make brain-inspired computing more adaptable

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Pickin’ up the statistics of good vibrations

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20 October 2023

Towards using quantum computing to speed up drug development

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