This year’s Alumni Weekend ran alongside the Imperial Festival. Julia Lorke askedformer students about their “Imperial experience”. What made their time here so special that they decided to come back to visit years after their graduation?

Henry Hocking delves into the British Library’s Sound Archives

Continuing our series of short audio stories linked with science: ‘The Fight Back’, written and read by Margaux Lesaffre.

Sound and Vision from Thursday’s Lit Up Fringe event

Rory Galloway reads his short story, “The Turing Test”

As New Atlantis, the new immersive theatre experience gets ready to launch, Connie Orbach and Neil Stoker interview creative Producer Andy Franzkowiak about working with scientists, and engaging people at a deeper level with important scientific issues.

Kat Austen, chemist-turned-artist,tells us why she’s drowning little people in her bath in a new science-based immersive theatre experience

What would life be like if the slightest touch caused you excruciating pain? …

A serious look at laughter. Why do we laugh? And is it good for us? …

Is there an awkward relationship between open source and patents? …

Patrick Kennedy on failure, space exploration, and reality television …

Geek Salad delve into the world of alcohol and hangovers with its relation to science …

How does food colour effect taste? How does the snack food industry trick your brain into wanting more? The Geek Salad latest …

Is lying always bad? Are humans the only species the only species that lie? How do you spot it when someone is lying through their punctuation? …

Inspirational women in science: Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer 100 years before the computer was invented …

At the Royal Society Summer Exhibition we talked to Will Hamilton from the Sanger Institute about applying genome research …

Brainiac Live! hits the West End this week. We went to sample the stage show of this long-running TV series …

Part of the Imperial Festival podcast series: Tomos Thomas on efficient solar cells …

Part of the Imperial Festival podcast series: Senja Barthel uses mathematics to discover more about knots …

Part of the Imperial Festival podcast series: Andrew Ewing explains how chemical images are created from spectra measurements …

Part of the Imperial Festival podcast series: Cheng Seong Khor on the future UK electricity mix …

Part of the Imperial Festival podcast series: Hugh Penfold discusses commercialising discoveries …

Part of the Imperial Festival podcast series: Stefan Croniszewski talks to us about uses for this new wonder material …

Part of the Imperial Festival podcast series: Dr Daniel Stuckey talks to us about the heart regenerating potential of stem cell therapy …

A new Hackspace started by Imperial College’s Mechanical Engineering department enables ‘Do-It-Yourself’ enthusiasts to pool resources …

Is the soul independent of the mind? How does matter produce consciousness? New book by Stephen Cave could provide the answers …

This week’s ‘Nature’ podcast looked at CellTex’s decision to flout stem cell regulations, while the Imperial College podcast hosted Brian May …

New exhibition ‘Extinction: not the end of the world’ opens today at the Natural History Museum. Julie Gould went along to explore and chat with the organisers …

How has death been viewed across continents and through centuries? Andy Roast headed to the ‘Death: A self-portrait’ exhibition at the Wellcome Collection to learn more about …

Cases of childhood asthma fell by 12.3% in the first year after the July 2007 smoking ban and have continued to fall since. Stephanie McClellan talked to Anthony Laverty from …