A farmer can remember what has happened last year and the year before, and can prepare accordingly. But what about plants? How can they pass on their experience to their offspring?

Experimental neuroscience which studies dopamine and the brain’s reward system can shed light on drug addiction, how it works, and how to treat it.

Find out what’s wrong with your favourite featherless dinosaur from this summer’s blockbuster.

Peter Shatwell sifts the fact and the fiction in support of the EmDrive – a proposed space propulsion system that appears to contradict a fundamental law of physics

Has an 18th century anatomist been vindicated by new research on how waste leaves the brain? Rachel David investigates.

Kruit Shrotri looks at why biodiversity has been falling in British woodlands

Sarah Gaunt finds that the Hainan gibbon is hanging on, but only just

Rachel David on gender equality in STEM, and the need for role models

Faiza Peeran on why the citizen scientists of America collected bacteria to send into space

Sarah Gaunt finds out why the elderly are taking to tablets (the computing variety)

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?

An I, Scientist video: Stephanie Sammann, Rory Galloway and Arutyun Arutyunyan interview Professor Julian Jones about biomaterials for repairing damaged bones

Henry Hocking delves into the British Library’s Sound Archives

30 issues – 10 years of cover design

Sound and Vision from Thursday’s Lit Up Fringe event

Join Imperial researchers and student societies as they bring the science of light out of the shadows for an evening of light entertainment

Sweet, sour, salt, bitter, umami – Neil Stoker asks if fat is a member of the primary taste club

Leprosy was once thought to be on the verge of elimination. Neil Stoker talks to Professor Diana Lockwood about what went wrong.

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Flatworm infection spike around Lake Malaŵi has been linked to manmade environmental changes …

The explosive past of the small Mediterranean island of Pantelleria provides geological insights …

Deryck Whibley couldn’t stop the spiral to alcoholism because of its dual impact on his brain …

An update on divestment as the Fossil Free movement gathers pace …

Why is asbestos still killing people? It’s a tale of cover-ups and misinformation spanning decades …

Energy companies are creating the conditions for a stock market crash and threatening democracy. Imperial College must take action …

Find out the latest on bringing back extinct species and perhaps one day; a Neanderthal …