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Tube fares to increase this month

Mayor Sadiq Khan announced changes to Travel for London (TfL) fares commencing this Sunday, March 1st

Pay as you go fares for the tube, DLR and rail are increasing by £0.20 for travel in single zones. The fare for Elizabeth line journeys between Zone I and Heathrow are increasing to £15.50. There will also be increases to River Bus and IFS Cloud Cable Car prices. 

Bus and tram fares are frozen until July 5 2026, while adult Travelcard prices are frozen until 2027. 

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Joint Oxford-Imperial team comes second at PLANCKS UK

Joint Oxford-Imperial team comes second at PLANCKS UK

I Carnot, a joint team from the University of Oxford and Imperial College London, came second in PLANCKS UK 2026. PLANCKS is annual international theoretical physics competition aimed at undergraduates arranged by the International Association of Physics Students. The competition’s national preliminary, PLANCKS UK, is run by the Institute

By Oscar Mitcham
Imperial represented at global AI summit in India

Imperial represented at global AI summit in India

Amanda Wolthuizen, one Imperial College’s Vice-Presidents, attended the India AI Impact Summit which took place in New Delhi from 16th to 20th February. The College cemented new artificial intelligence research partnerships with institutes in the South Asian country, including the joint development of a platform to provide mental health

By Guillaume Felix
Calls for new ballot during last day of staff strikes

Calls for new ballot during last day of staff strikes

Staff on strike and supportive students marched around campus on Tuesday 24th February, for what strikers said was the last day of industrial action within the trade unions’ current strike mandate. Imperial’s three trade unions – the University and College Union (UCU), Unite, and Unison – obtained a six-month striking mandate

By Guillaume Felix
Braiding Sweetgrass

Books

Braiding Sweetgrass

Braiding Sweetgrass is a beautiful collection of stories that, broadly, follow the life of the author, Robin Wall Kimmerer (a botanist and professor of environmental biology who is of Native American descent), and her evolving understanding of the relationship between scientific and indigenous ways of knowing, along with the implications

By David Loughlin