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Congratulations to the 7 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social academics who have been appointed inaugural Fellows at the Academy for Mathematical Sciences

6 have been appointed from @imperialmaths.bsky.social and 1 from @imperialphysics.bsky.social

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January 30, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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Imperial researchers celebrate a landmark achievement as NASA’s #IMAPmission sends back its first data from space.

All instruments on board NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft have successfully recorded their first measurements.

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December 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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🎁✨ Quantum Christmas Presents! ✨��

Looking for the perfect gift for the curious minds in your life? This holiday season, we’re celebrating the International Year of Quantum with presents – including some brilliant reads from Imperial academics.
December 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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A new study led by researchers in @imperiallifesci.bsky.social, based at Silwood Park, shows that land-use change is undermining ecosystem stability by reducing the functional diversity of bird communities.

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December 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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The Faculty of Natural Sciences is now on LinkedIn!

Follow us on LinkedIn to find the latest updates, research and events from the Faculty, as well as from our departments and institutes.

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December 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Exciting news that support from the Michael Uren Foundation will transform ecological research at our Silwood Park Campus.

A new state-of-the-art controlled environment research facility will enable researchers to recreate any environment.

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November 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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As nations convene in Belém for #COP30, many have withdrawn from funds for climate mitigation and biodiversity protection

Read the Observer article, featuring research from @ic-cep.bsky.social's Dr Morena Mills and the recent paper on conservation abandonment

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November 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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All Imperial undergraduate students are invited to participate in the FoNS Make-A-Difference competition 2026!

Teams of students from all Faculties, will have the unique opportunity to showcase their creativity.

🗓️ Launch event 14.00, 12 November 🗓️

www.imperial.ac.uk/events/20148...
November 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Roth's niece, Cléa Daridan, said on 100th anniversary of his birth:

Read more about Klaus Friedrich Roth ⬇️
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"As we celebrate the centenary of Klaus Roth's birth, a Silesian born academic, let us be reminded of UK's first Fields Medallist not only for the excellency of his contribution to number theory but also for the man he was, having devoted his entire career to teaching Mathematics at Imperial College London inspiring hundreds of students through his legacy"
October 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Don't miss FoNS Social Mobility Week exploring Social Mobility at Imperial and beyond

Sessions include 'how to network', a 'conversation on #SocialMobility at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, as well as a keynote with Professor Lee Elliot Major

Register now ⬇️

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October 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Two experiments involving Imperial scientists have created the world's most precise measurement of the difference between the mass of two types of #neutrino

Read more here ⬇️

www.imperial.ac.uk/news/270453/...
October 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Congratulations to D-View! Winners of this year's FoNS-MAD!

They created an autonomous drone system that uses low-cost geophone sensors to locate trapped earthquake survivor and took home the £7,000 prize

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www.imperial.ac.uk/news/270513/...

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October 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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A new discovery published in Science reveals the key pigment behind far-red photosynthesis, a new, low-energy form of oxygenic #photosynthesis.

www.imperial.ac.uk/news/270033/...

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October 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Failure by the UK to stop adding greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere by 2050 would lead to more damaging and costly impacts, warn Imperial scientists

#climatechange #NetZero

www.imperial.ac.uk/news/269673/...

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October 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Meet D-View, the team in the #FoNSMAD final creating earthquake rescue drones.

Come support the teams taking place at this year’s final event on the 22 October 2025, 16.00 - 20.00 BST, in the South Kensington campus.

Register your place now www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19797...
October 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Professor Kim Jelfs, @imperialchemistry.bsky.social,
said that their work “sparked a whole field,” and that “there’s an enormous number of people that work in this area now”

Read her comments in the New York Times ⬇️

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“The work of the prize winners laid the foundation for a vibrant international field of research in novel metal-organic frameworks, and more than 100,000 MOF structures have been reported to date. “The applications of MOFs all stem from their porosity – one gram of a MOF material can have the same surface area inside its pores as a football pitch. “The field of MOFs all began with the research by Robson in the early 1990s who designed coordination polymers that could be engineered to have pores.”
October 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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FoNS academics working in this area reacted:

Dr Becky Greenaway, @imperialchemistry.bsky.social, said that lots of chemists had been wondering when metal-organic frameworks would get the Nobel Prize... "and it’s finally happened!"

Read @beckylgreenaway.bsky.social in the Guardian ⬇️

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“Lots of chemists have been wondering when metal-organic frameworks would get the Nobel Prize, and it’s finally happened!” “Their discovery has enabled a whole range of applications, from gas storage and separations to drug delivery, and also opened-up other areas, including porous liquids – liquids with holes in - which are showing promise in carbon capture and catalysis. “They are already seeing commercial use, for example, for carbon capture from flue gas, keeping fruit fresh, and for storing reactive gases for the semi-conductor industry. They also have potential for water harvesting - for example they are being trialled in the desert for collecting clean water from the air. You can only imagine that their use in real-world applications would continue to expand in the future.”
October 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Dr Niladri Banerjee, in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London, said: "This year’s Nobel Prize highlights the link between the microscopic world and electrical circuits."
"This year’s Nobel Prize highlights the link between the microscopic world and electrical circuits. "These discoveries underpin how superconducting qubits are now driving the global race toward scalable quantum computers, and at Imperial we’re building on this legacy by developing new superconducting materials and circuits for these applications.
October 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Professor Lesley Cohen, in the Department of Physics said "Their work has laid the foundations for superconducting Qubits - one of the main hardware technologies for quantum technologies."

Read her comments on the BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“This is wonderful news indeed, and very well deserved. The work that these three outstanding scientists first demonstrated relates to the power of quantum mechanic tunnelling, and its manifestation in superconductivity where macroscopic quantum effects could be manifest and manipulated. “Their work has laid the foundations for superconducting Qubits - one of the main hardware technologies for quantum technologies.”
October 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Dr Malcolm Connolly's lab at Imperial is using these discoveries, and the decades of research they set in motion, to unlock quantum-enhanced AI and to gain deeper insights into advanced electronic materials
This year’s Nobel Prize recognises the pioneers who first showed us that even an electrical circuit can behave as a genuine quantum system. “Their discoveries of tunnelling and energy quantisation laid the foundation for today’s superconducting qubits, one of the leading platforms in the global race to build practical quantum computers. “The field is now pushing these fragile effects into ever more complex circuits, aiming for scalable and fault-tolerant machines. At Imperial we are extending these ideas with new superconducting and hybrid devices to realise quantum-enhanced AI, and to probe entanglement and coherence in next-generation quantum materials.”
October 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Meet ANA, the team in the #FoNSMAD final creating a wearable EEG patch for brain health.

Come support the teams taking place at this year’s final event on the 22 October 2025, 16.00 - 20.00 BST, in the South Kensington campus.

Register your place now ⬇️
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19797...
October 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Join us for Social Mobility Week, a 5-day series of events on w/c 27 October celebrating and exploring Social Mobility at Imperial and beyond

See the full range of events taking place during social mobility week and register here ⬇️

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October 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Researchers, including those from Imperial, have shown for the first time in stunning detail how #antibiotics act against harmful bacteria

They have shown how polymyxins are able to pierce the armour of E. coli and kill the microbe

Read how ⬇️

www.imperial.ac.uk/news/269074/...
September 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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We want to wish a huge welcome to all our new FoNS students starting this week and welcome back to all our students returning!

We are excited to get stuck into the Autumn term and wish you all the best for the year ahead

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Imperial students at the Welcome fair
September 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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The AI in Science Centre and @imperialmaths.bsky.social are hosting a talk on 'Statistical Properties of the Rectified Transport' with Dr Gonzalo Mena

🗓️Tuesday 30 September, 12.10 - 12.50 BST, White City Campus/online, open to all

Register your free place now ⬇️

www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19888...
September 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM