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Gender gap in Imperial First-class rate achievement increasing again

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Gender gap in Imperial First-class rate achievement increasing again

The gender gap in the share of female and male undergraduates who are awarded First-class degrees at Imperial is increasing again, data obtained via a Felix Freedom of Information request shows. A higher share of female graduates was awarded First-class degrees in 2019-20 for the first time,

By Guillaume Felix and William Chia

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Passkeys made mandatory to limit phishing

Following the advice from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), University Management Board (UMB) has approved the recommendation that all members of Imperial must adopt passkeys by the end of July.  This is as a result of “more sophisticated phishing attacks” that are being used to target members of the

By Guillaume Felix
This Week In Science: what if we could experiment on live human brains?

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This Week In Science: what if we could experiment on live human brains?

We can’t, obviously: the ethical concerns place this firmly in dystopian science fiction territory. Yet, the Yale spinout startup Bexorg is offering something very close. The team created a proprietary system which takes brains removed from deceased people who choose to donate their bodies to science and connect them

By Hanna Irzyk