Above and Beyond
The journeys behind the Imperial team that produced NASA’s IMAP magnetometer, now probing a million miles from Earth.
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A fresh batch of sabbs
Daniel Zhuo to lead ICU, with Jacob Eyre, Sky Wang, and Sarah Azam acting as Deputy Presidents.
2026 Oscars Predictions
Felix's take on this year's 98th Academy Awards nominations
Why removing wardens from halls is a mistake
A hall senior’s opinion on changing the wardening system.
Whose genome are we studying?
Precision medicine has a representation problem.
Trump is no saviour, but who are we to tell Iranians how to feel?
Exploring what diasporic Iranians feel about the war in Iran.
Airbnb and other apocalyptic omens
What Airbnb can mean for local communities, and the larger issues that lie beneath it.
A Musical About Musicals: The Drowsy Chaperone
MTSoc’s most recent show was a bombastic rendition of The Drowsy Chaperone, a musical about a musical. Directed by Jay Etim (and co-directed by Atom Lucenet), the show was a very tasteful ode to a by-gone era of musical theatre. It was overflowing with charm, and had a clear
ICSMSU Charity Fashion Show
Victoria’s Secret angels have nothing on the medics’ Fashion Show models.
Choosing to Be a Man: A Review of Martin Luke Brown’s man oh man!
What does it mean to choose to be a man today? Martin Luke Brown turns toward vulnerability, reflection, and empathy.
College considers scrapping Wardens
Student representatives worried by consequences on residents’ safety and welfare.
ICU apologises for issues with digital systems
Imperial College Union (ICU) responded to an open letter criticising flaws in its digital transformation, shared in the wake of the Union’s rocky move of the Student Group Shop from eActivities to SUMS. The letter, attributed to “a collective” of students, was addressed to the ICU Board of Trustees
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President Hugh Brady calls for internationalism in annual address
Global uncertainty and crisis push the College to look outwards.
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March elections turnout fails to beat last year's
As voting closed at 2pm on Thursday 12th March, over 146,000 ballots had been electronically cast in the 2026 student elections. The turnout for student-run Clubs, Societies and Project (CSP) Elections was 28.8%, while the turnout for non-CSP “General” Elections was 24.4%. Both turnout rates were slightly
Business
The $1.95 billion soda is now in the UK: meet Poppi
From kitchen recipe to Shark Tank pitch, Poppi’s case stands out in the beverages industry.
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How a group of students took charge of 20 national societies
A wave of seemingly coordinated takeovers angered student communities.
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Imperial Confessions faces backlash after featuring posts targeting Chinese students
Two posts on Chinese students’ language skills and another mocking them prompted a wave of criticism and threats.
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Grok removed from College AI platform
Grok, the generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI, is no longer available on dAIsy, Imperial’s artificial intelligence platform. Staff and students can still converse with various models of ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, and Llama. Grok, which is part of billionaire Elon Musk’s tech empire, has been at the
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Imperial defeats Sheffield in University Challenge
Imperial College London’s University Challenge team has progressed into the semi-finals after narrowly beating the University of Sheffield 160-120. Sheffield took a strong lead, but Imperial managed an impressive comeback thanks to the efforts of team captain Oscar O’Flanagan. “Imperial, that kimchi keeps bringing you luck,” quipped host
Books
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
A delicious collection of Murakami’s unique brand of realistic weirdness in 24 short stories. Some ended abruptly, some ended perfectly, some could only be understood in a certain frame of mind. It’s hard not to be drawn back again and again by any writing by Murakami – to dislike
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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
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The Dream of the Jaguar
I really enjoyed The Dream of the Jaguar. It follows the life of an orphan found in the street by a mute beggar woman in Maracaibo, Venezuela, who builds his life up from poverty until he becomes the most successful surgeon in the country. This family saga is divided into
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Essays in Love
A stage-by-stage analysis of a romantic relationship from beginning to end, Essays in Love doesn’t completely lose its focus amid the passion of love, but it isn’t so objective that it reads like an academic paper. It’s full of discomfiting facts for romantics everywhere: chief among them
Film & TV
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms vs. Breaking Bad
The new Game of Thrones prequel TV series triggers a review-bombing war with Breaking Bad fans, causing “Ozymandias” to lose its IMDb record.