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Major fire near White City campus

Multiple sheds and a lorry were destroyed in a fire on Stable Way on Tuesday 19 May in North Kensington, close to Imperial’s White City campus. No injuries were reported.

The London Fire Brigade said the blaze was under control by 6:05pm, after an hour and a half of work that involved six fire engines and around 40 firefighters.

Smoke rising from behind Scale Space.

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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

By Guillaume Felix

OfS finds one in four undergraduate students experience sexual harassment at university

The Office for Students (OfS), an independent regulator for higher education in England, released a new analysis of its 2025 report on sexual misconduct this month, compiled from the experiences of 52,000 final-year undergraduate students. They found that 24.5% of students reported experiencing sexual harassment, such as

By Alexander Mitchiner
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