Film & TV
Modern Family
The result of over 7 years work, Jim Jarmusch’s latest film takes a bold new look at the gothic classic of vampires.
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Opinion
Hating headlines that tell you how to feel
There’s something strange about the way we treat emotions; they have become products to be bought and sold. It was crazy American Pentecostal Christianity that first got me thinking about this.
Film & TV
Get Ready For All Night At The Oscars
As we near the end of another exhausting term at our favourite university, the return of the hallowed Imperial cinema All-Nighter also rapidly approaches. In a year of unusually high caliber for Oscar nominated films, we’ve selected the crème de la crème of the Oscar crop just for you.
Science
Epigenetics implicated in type 2 diabetes
Epigenetic differences are being found in an almost-unlimited number of diseases: cancer, epilepsy, arthritis, obesity. A recent paper published in PLoS Genetics has now found that epigenetic changes may influence how susceptible one is to type 2 diabetes.
Culture
Can you sense a space?
Have you ever been lost in a building? I don’t mean in the physical sense.
Culture
An alcoholic bucolic frolic
DramSoc’s spring term production of Jerusalem, directed by Grace Surman, opens with a young girl wearing fairy wings singing the eponymous hymn in the middle of the countryside.
Opinion
Adonis Georgiadis comes to Imperial. Great…
This Sunday, Adonis Georgiadis will be the main guest in the final event of the “Greek Presidency in London” initiative held at Imperial, and will serve as representative of the Greek government.
Science
Scientists Discover Dwarf Planet
The newly discovered dwarf planet 2012 VP113 was discovered by astronomers at the Carnegie Institution of Science, Washington last week.
Features
Three is no longer a crowd
We are even closer to seeing Britain become the first country in the world to allow a three person baby to be born through IVF, as draft rules were announced last week to regulate the process.
Features
The Cancer Envy Campaign
Pancreatic cancer has the lowest survival rate out of the common cancers; only three percent make it past five years, with the majority only making it to 4-6 months after diagnosis.
Features
Dirty Stethoscopes
A study published this month has displayed the possibility that a doctor’s stethoscope could be a major source of bacterial transmission in clinical practice.
Features
A call for doctors
The number of doctors travelling abroad on ‘humanitarian’ missions in order to provide help for the millions of people suffering in less developed countries is nanoscopic.