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Imperial Business School ranked 38th globally in FT rankings

Imperial College Business School’s MBA has placed 38th globally in the 2025 Financial Times rankings, improving by one position from last year.  The school received an overall satisfaction score of 8.406 on a ten-point scale and was ranked 24th for weighted research output by full-time faculty. The survey

By Isabella Duchovny
President Xi Jinping leaves Imperial College on a state visit in 2015

Chen Jining: the Imperial graduate tipped to be in the race for Xi's successor

Following major elections across the West and several transfers of power, China's leadership post-Xi Jinping is a topic gaining greater prominence. Now 71 and in the middle of his third five-year term in power, the topic of his successor has become more prescient as he heads towards a

By Mohammad Majlisi
Of kleptons and kerplunk (Tales of the Unsung Wilderness)

Of kleptons and kerplunk (Tales of the Unsung Wilderness)

If you were a fish in Permian Brazil, Prionosuchus was your most formidable foe. This gargantuan, vaguely crocodilian creature belonging to a group known as temnospondyls is thought to have ruled the waters of its time.[1] These impressive animals are no longer with us, but their successors (direct or

By Shreyas Kuchibhotla
Winter background of ice crystals, icy background

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Plastic ice seen with elastic-neutron scattering

While on Earth we mostly encounter the hexagonal, crystalline ice (like ice cubes, glaciers, snow), there are at least 20 other known ice phases, many of which have merely been theorised to exist in particular temperature and pressure conditions. One of those is plastic ice, which differs from "conventional&

By Filippos Kaloudis