The ability to process data can be separated into two broad categories, linear processing and parallel processing. The human brain...
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Imperial College's Julian Jones interviewed about his work to develop biomaterials to help mend damaged bones
If you want to answer the question ‘who are we?’ you might first need to ask the question ‘what are...
When we look at the bud of a rose, we see a striking example of a mathematical phenomenon found throughout...
When geneticist Craig Venter first suggested that it would soon be possible to sequence complete human genomes for $1000, the...
What sets humans apart from other animals? Language? Creativity? Some think that the answer is actually memory, and that only...
Decision-making is a continuous brain process that we are generally unaware off, until our choices result in unpredicted consequences. We...
The Kaua'i 'O'O (Moho Braccatus) What if I told you that there were sounds that could save wildlife species from...
There is a runaway trolley on the railway tracks. Five people are tied to the tracks and the only way...
The last 2.6 million years have seen the breadth of human engineering and invention. From ancient humans using hammerstones to...
An evolutionary perspective: Who are we? Of the millions of species that have ever existed on this planet, humans have...
Extant hominids, which include apes and humans come from a plant eating ancestry. Early hominids lived in a woodland-savannah environment...
To celebrate I, Science’s 10th anniversary, current editors Iona Twaddell and Kruti Shrotri met up with Darius Nikbin, the founder...
Most of modern medicine focuses on how disease occurs – what affects our risk of getting sick and which diseases...
Evolution is all about being selfish. By natural selection, genes that increase an individual’s chance of survival or fitness accumulate...
This article was first published in Issue 1 of I, Science in March 2005, but not online. It seemed appropriate...
Launched on 14th March 2005, I, Science is fast approaching its 10th anniversary, and we are about to produce our...
Imperial Fringe event 'Lit Up' celebrated the International Year of Light through a range of events last Thursday. I dropped...
Join Imperial researchers and student societies as they bring the science of light out of the shadows for an evening...
Having fundamental lessons from my childhood challenged brings mixed feelings. There's excitement in progress, but some alarm as the foundations...
Progression of Alzheimer's disease. Neuronal death and the formation of neurofibrillary tangles and beta-amyloid plaques. Magdalena Sastre is a senior...
44 years ago today, Apollo 14 landed on the moon. See more here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1NGXL3wc0M Image: NASA
"When I was in India in November, we went out to a little village health clinic in Rajasthan, and we...
The UK is brimming with science venues and science-related events aimed at the general public. But keeping track of what's...
From the ingenious to the ridiculous, the direction evolution has taken in creating creatures great and small never fails to...
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Kuru, Fatal Familial Insomnia - in what may seem like a list of ruthless and incurable neurodegenerative diseases...
Angelina Chrysanthou backs sugar Sugar is one of the oldest cooking ingredients, dating back to 326 BC. Since then it...
The Ebola outbreak that began in West Africa in March 2014 tapped into the public imagination across the world as...
Biopsy of small bowel showing coeliac disease manifested by blunting of villi, crypt hyperplasia, and lymphocyte infiltration of crypts (from...
