How does food colour effect taste? How does the snack food industry trick your brain into wanting more? The Geek Salad latest …
Podcasts & Video
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Lies
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? …
Women in science
Inspirational women in science: Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer 100 years before the computer was invented …
Food chains in the UK
Prof Johnathan Rushton challenges you to go to the supermarket and find out where your food comes from …
Sanger Institute
At the Royal Society Summer Exhibition we talked to Will Hamilton from the Sanger Institute about applying genome research …
Brainiac Live!
Brainiac Live! hits the West End this week. We went to sample the stage show of this long-running TV series …
Solar materials
Part of the Imperial Festival podcast series: Tomos Thomas on efficient solar cells …
Knots
Part of the Imperial Festival podcast series: Senja Barthel uses mathematics to discover more about knots …
Chemical photography
Part of the Imperial Festival podcast series: Andrew Ewing explains how chemical images are created from spectra measurements …
Electricity mix
Part of the Imperial Festival podcast series: Cheng Seong Khor on the future UK electricity mix …
Imperial Innovations
Part of the Imperial Festival podcast series: Hugh Penfold discusses commercialising discoveries …
Professor Susan Collins
Prof Susan Collins is a British artist interested in exploring emerging technologies through fine art …
Graphene
Part of the Imperial Festival podcast series: Stefan Croniszewski talks to us about uses for this new wonder material …
Stem cell heart repair
Part of the Imperial Festival podcast series: Dr Daniel Stuckey talks to us about the heart regenerating potential of stem cell therapy …
Imperial Hackspace
A new Hackspace started by Imperial College’s Mechanical Engineering department enables ‘Do-It-Yourself’ enthusiasts to pool resources …
The Arts Experiment
Stalls at this Imperial Fringe event included artistic entomology, robot dancing and the neuroscience of juggling …
OuTrop conservation
Thea Powell from the Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project (OuTrop) on ape and cat conservation projects in Borneo rainsforests …
Exploring ice
As a chilly winter comes to a close, find out more about the fascinating properties of ice …
Soul immortal
Is the soul independent of the mind? How does matter produce consciousness? New book by Stephen Cave could provide the answers …
Constellations play to New York
The play ‘Constellations’ applies the multiverse theory to a love story. Imperial College’s Professor Mike Duff was recruited to explain the concept …
Podcasts – Nature and Imperial
This week’s ‘Nature’ podcast looked at CellTex’s decision to flout stem cell regulations, while the Imperial College podcast hosted Brian May …
Feast Fringe event
The banquet of delicacies at fringe event ‘A Feast for the Sciences’ included white chocolate candles and CO2 sorbets …
Chris Stringer’s Human Evolution
Professor Chris Stringer, an anthropologist from the natural history museum, talks to Graihagh Jackson about his life’s research on human evolution. Chris revolutionised his field with his out-of-Africa theory …
Extinction explained
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 …
One billion hungry
Food security is a pressing issue with over 1 billion people today suffering from Chronic hunger. But the technology and techniques are being developed to combat it …
Death: Audio tour
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 …
Smoking ban cut asthma
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 …
This Poetry is Madness
Imperial College hosted this evening of top performance poets reciting verse on mental health. Each performer had either suffered mental health problems or been affected by the suffering of someone close …
SIP #2: Dr Suze Kundu
In ‘Scientists In The Pub’ Andy Roast talks to researchers about their latest work. This episode features Dr Suze Kundu on splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen and the science of cocktails …
Neural networks
The emotions associated with a young child’s attachment to a parent could be reprogrammed by treating parts of the brain like a computer. Professor Abbas Edalat from Imperial College’s Department of Computing is using John Bowlby’s attachment theory to find new methods of therapy that help to repair psychological damage suffered during upbringing. Professor Edalat set […]