Science traverses borders and Imperial’s collaborative work around the world is pioneering new ways of tackling some of the world’s most complex problems. Find out how here or on Spotify.
Series 1 - Transformational Science with France’s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Imperial and the CNRS have a long history of collaborating. In 2022, this partnership flourished into the opening of a joint International Research Center (IRC), paving the way to transformations in the fields of Health, Sustainability and Connectivity. Director of the Centre, Sandrine Heutz, tells us what the IRC hopes to achieve.
Sandrine Heutz introduces the International Research Centre
Episode 1 - Materials Worlds - From fossil fuels to forest fibres: how changing the building blocks of carbon fibres to an abundant tree polymer could revolutionise the transport and energy sectors.
Episode 2: Accelerating cancer treatment - The latest advances in particle accelerator science are supercharging cancer treatment by killing malignant cells with highly accurate ion beams that spare more of the surrounding healthy tissue.
Episode 3: A theory of everything: Making headway with the biggest theoretical physics question of our time: how to combine theories of subatomic particles with Einstein's theory of gravity. So far, the two have refused to coexist.
Episode 4: Crystals Clear At the Great Exhibition Road Festival 2024, we’re sharing with visitors the incredible properties of luminescent nanocrystals, plus some of the ways they could be used in detecting diseases like cancer.
Series 2 - Science for a better world
The Global Development Hub STEM Impact Memos
Using the guidance of the United Nations Sustainable Development goals, Imperial’s Global Development Hub facilitates co-created projects that aim to tackle issues that affect some of the most disadvantaged communities around the world.
Intro Episode - Mike Templeton introduces the STEM Impact Memos
Episode 1 - Transmission Zero: Can we make mosquitoes immune to the malaria-causing parasite and in so doing, curb the spread of one of the world’s most lethal pathogens? A team of scientists from the UK and Tanzania are working to do just that.
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Produced by Lucile Genin, for the International Relations Office
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