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As the Cassini mission enters its final days, it gets ready to complete its last missions, aptly titled "The Grand Finale", that...
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On June 2013 and April 2017, NASA spacecraft, Cassini, took two photos of the mysterious hexagonal atmospheric formation at Saturn's North...
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The 20-year journey of the Cassini spacecraft will come to an end on the 15 September when NASA crash the...
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Curiosity and our hunger for knowledge have always prompted humans to embark on heroic endeavours. Arguably one of the grandest expeditions in the last couple of decades has been the...
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Hello everyone, My name is Cassini, a NASA spacecraft launched on the 15th October 1997. I am an audacious, energetic, and...
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A team of researchers at the University of Manitoba have found that artificial sweeteners can lead to an increased body...
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Why do people do bad things for money? An obvious question perhaps, but while we all do selfish things sometimes,...
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There are planets out there waiting for you to discover them. And when I say you, I mean you -...
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Back in 2005, the world was a different place. YouTube had only just been invented, Green Day were still topping...
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If you’re reading this late at night on your smartphone - stop. Please switch off your phone and get some...
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Over 100 billion – that is the number of brown dwarfs that could inhabit our galaxy. The huge figure was...
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In an attempt to understand the mysteries of the human brain, scientists have been trying to find general principles that...
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With a third of the world now facing deadly heat waves due to climate change, the need to reduce greenhouse...
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As coral reefs are put under increasing stress from rising sea temperatures, some believe that a potential refuge could be...
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Earlier this year a petition popped up on Change.org demanding a sea burial for Charles Byrne. The petition, started by...
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For this issue, our Pictures Editor, Natasha Gertler, reached out to artists from within and external to Imperial for their...
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View issue 37, Summer 2017 https://issuu.com/iscience/docs/elements_iscience_online_2
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Today the I,Science Summer 2017 issue, Elements, was launched. In this issue, we bring you the stories behind the elements...
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Visceral Leishmaniasis is the second-biggest parasitic killer in the world, yet most won't have heard of it. It is caused...
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Of all the ways to get people thinking about contagious diseases, using music isn’t something that immediately springs to mind....
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We are living through the greatest mass-extinction event since the dinosaurs died out. Dozens of animal and plant species disappear...
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The focus of the upcoming Summer 2017 issue of I,Science is Elements. We'll be discussing the stories behind the elements...
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Here at I,Science, we love mixing art and science - because why can’t things be both academically rigorous and aesthetically...
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Paedophile is not a synonym for child molester. While abusing children is a choice, suffering from sexual attraction towards children...
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Doctors from the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia have developed highly accurate artificial intelligence programs to identify tuberculosis from...
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It’s five o’clock in the afternoon. On a busy South London street, people are finally making their way home after...
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“I think we are really living a revolution” said Dr Nadia Guerra, head of Imperial’s Inflammation and Tumour Immunity lab....
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A new insight into the memory loss and cognitive decline seen during Alzheimer’s disease has been uncovered by an international...
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“This flu is horrendous. Can't breathe, can't sleep or eat. Muscles ache, hot fever. Should have gotten the shot. Time...
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We’ve put man on the moon, visited Pluto and Jupiter, and even managed to land a probe on a speeding...
