Tying a knot may seem like a trivial thing– in fact few people over the age of 5 would ever...
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The Mary Rose, a flagship of Henry VIII’s English fleet, sank off the coast of Portsmouth in 1545. The hull...
Since the development of the heart lung machine in the middle of the last century, cardiac surgeons have dreamed of...
Pictured: Imperial students in the Department of Materials In Coffee+Chat, we ask Imperial College scientists to explain their research. This...
Materials perform. Stuff is constantly getting up to things. Matter isdoing all of the time, just to exist and make...
Much of the technology we take for granted would have seemed miraculous even 30 years ago. The majority of these...
If you want to answer the question ‘who are we?’ you might first need to ask the question ‘what are...
Classic dip pen nanolithography Researchers in the Department of Physics and Centre for Plastic Electronics at Imperial have developed a...
Scientists at the University of Rochester recently developed a heat-activated self-stretching material that reverts between two shapes depending on temperature....
Photo credit: Katherine McAlpine/Royal Institution After the storming success of his family-friendly talk at the Ri itself and online, Andrew...
Hold the 4th century Lycurgus cup up to the light and watch as it mysteriously morphs from green to red....
It was just one of their Friday night experiments, nothing out of the ordinary. Then Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov...
Spider-Man swinging through the Manhattan skyline. Batman cruising round Gotham in his Batmobile. Tony Stark climbing into the Iron Man...
In 1993, an episode of Tomorrow’s World (the once popular BBC science and technology television programme) opened with a close-up...
Space elevator - Andy Roast If humans are to become a space-faring species, we must find a more efficient method...
The Imperial Festival 2013 was on Friday 3 May and Saturday 4 May and attracted over 10,000 visitors....
As a member of the Department of Materials, my research is based in the Centre for Nuclear Engineering, where I...
Why can’t a high-performance laptop be the size of a tablet? Or a smartphone the size of a pager? What...
A team of scientists from Cardiff University and the University of Iowa have synthesised a 'super-hydrophobic' compound to protect...
Pluto’s fifth moon discovered Image: Hubblesite A new moon has been found orbiting Pluto, bringing the number of satellites known...
The recent alarm over use of sub-standard breast implants has exposed serious flaws in the European health regulatory system. But...
Power of Making Victoria and Albert Museum 6 September 2011 – 2 January 2012 There are three types of making:...
“And how can you mend a broken heart? How can you stop the rain from falling down?” If soul legend...
Capturing carbon dioxide at coal power stations is a great way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but energy companies are...
Anne Coleman, photography Jonathan Primmer - April 2010 Introduction We are all familiar with London’s sprawling skyline, or...
