Imperial Alpha makes history in crude oil trading competition

Imperial Alpha makes history in crude oil trading competition

Imperial Alpha, a team of five consisting of members from the Energy Society, won 3rd place in the ESCP Energy Trading Competition 2019. This year, over 40 teams participated in the competition, including a total of seven teams from Imperial College. Imperial Alpha, described by the competition director as the

By Gianpiero Placidi, Bob Xu, Yu (Ronnie) Zhang, Adam Isenberg and Ernesto Ignacio
Explaining the Future book launched at UCL

Explaining the Future book launched at UCL

On Monday March 4th, Dr. Sunny Bains from the Department of Biochemical Engineering launched her new book Explaining the Future: How to Research, Analyze and Report on Emerging Technologies, published by Oxford University Press. The book – written for engineers, physical scientists, consultants, and investors – focuses on the how to determine

By Rosie Dutt

Dinosaurs were thriving before asteroid strike that wiped them out

A new analysis has posited that dinosaurs were unaffected by long-term climate changes and flourished before their sudden demise by asteroid strike. Scientists largely agree that an asteroid impact, possibly coupled with intense volcanic activity, wiped out the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago.

By Henry Alman