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ICU recalls fidget toys over safety concerns

ICU recalled all the fidget toys it distributed over the last year over concerns about chemical toxicity, asking students to dispose of them.

This includes all toys handed out at the Leadership Election stalls and ICU training, of which fewer than 100 were distributed in total.

The announcement was made in late March via ICU’s Instagram stories and a blog post after Amazon issued a recall notification for the product. ICU also emailed volunteers at Representative and Liberation and Community Network training. 

“Ahead of next year’s elections we have also reviewed our supplier choices and intend to move away from Amazon for stall items, both to reduce this kind of risk and to lower our environmental impact,” ICU said.

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Loud beeping sounds across South Kensington campus following power outage

Loud beeping sounds across South Kensington campus following power outage

A brief electrical outage at Imperial’s South Kensington Campus has resulted in the College’s public address speakers producing loud intermittent beeping sounds since this morning. The issue was unresolved as of 11pm today. The sounds were heard across campus, including at the Abdus Salam Library, where staff distributed

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Life Sciences Python exam plagued by technical issues again

Life Sciences Python exam plagued by technical issues again

Students have reported that a Python coding exam for Life Sciences students was beset with technical issues for the second year in a row. Felix understands a formal complaint regarding these issues has been filed by student representatives on Thursday 21st May. Students said that the questions for the exam

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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

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