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🌱🏙️ A new collaborative network, @ai4urban-health.bsky.social, led by ESE, aims to explore how AI might revolutionise the design & management of urban environments to improve health & sustainability.

Read more: www.imperial.ac.uk/news/271613/...

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New network to use Artificial Intelligence to tackle urban health challenges | Imperial News | Imperial College London
With 85% of the UK’s population living in urban areas, the design of our towns and cities directly impacts millions of people every day.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🎉 ESE Class of 2025! 🎉

A massive congratulations to our BSc and MSci students, who are graduating today at the Royal Albert Hall!

We are so proud to call you our alumni. Thank you for being part of ESE!

#OurImperial
October 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
⚠️ A @nature.com review article led by ESE has concluded that urgent policy intervention is needed to prevent a large-scale resurgence of #lead exposure, with severe economic impact estimates.

Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Environmental lead risk in the 21st century - Communications Earth & Environment
Substantial environmental lead contamination continues today contributing to an annual global economic loss exceeding $3.4 trillion through contemporary childhood lead exposure, according to a review of lead sources, possible pathways into the environment, and human exposure in the 21st century.
www.nature.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🔋 Research by ESE & the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial has found that waste mine tailings (the fine waste material left over from mineral extraction) can be repurposed for #LithiumIonBatteries, with little to no processing required!
⬇️ Read more: www.imperial.ac.uk/news/269113/...
Mine waste shows promise as battery material | Imperial News | Imperial College London
Waste mine tailings could be used to produce more sustainable lithium-ion batteries, find researchers at Imperial College London.
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September 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
⛰️ An ESE-led study has reconstructed the early evolution and history of a ‘baby’ normal fault in the Aysen Fjord, Chile (~13,000 years old), using seismic reflection data – holding the potential for better earthquake forecasts on individual faults!
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The Early Evolution of a Young Normal Fault in the Aysén Fjord, Chile
We apply quantitative fault analysis techniques to ultra high resolution 2D seismic reflection data We constrain the early evolution (initiation, propagation and linkage) of a young ∼13 ka normal...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
🔎 Detecting signs of recent life on Mars!

🌱 PhD student Solomon Hirsch and Prof Mark Sephton from ESE have discovered a simple and cheap way to test for active life on #Mars and other planets – using an existing instrument on the #CuriosityRover!
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/267393/...
Signs of recent life on Mars could be detected using new simple test | Imperial News | Imperial College London
Scientists reveal simple way to test for life on Mars using kit already on the Curiosity rover
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August 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🚀 A new study led by ESE that analysed the ancient asteroid #Ryugu has proposed that the building blocks of life may have originated in a turbulent region near Jupiter, not exclusively deep out in space.
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/266754/...
Life's ingredients could have formed near Jupiter | Imperial News | Imperial College London
Researchers have proposed that the building blocks of life may have originated in a turbulent region near Jupiter, not exclusively deep out in space.
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August 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
⚒️ Our Msc students from Responsible Mining and Metals Finance recently travelled through Sweden and Finland as part of the annual European mines field trip, where they visited projects at various stages from pre-feasibility through to operational!
#FieldTrip #Mining
July 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
🏆 A team led by a Jordan Stone, a PhD student at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, have received this year’s Schweickart Prize!

☄️Congratulations to Jordan and team for winning this coveted award established to enhance protection efforts against asteroid impacts!
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/265593/...
June 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
👩‍🔬 It's International Women in Engineering Day! ⚒️

💬 ESE MSc Applied Computational Science and Engineering student, Tyana Tshiota, spoke about the importance of #IWEID2025 and shared her advice for young aspiring engineers!

👉 Check out Tyana's profile in full: blogs.imperial.ac.uk/earth-scienc...
June 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🏅 Congratulations to ESE's Professor Jenny Collier, who this week was awarded the prestigious Murchison Medal of @geolsoc.bsky.social for significant contribution to 'hard' rock studies! ⛰️

👉 Read more about Professor Collier's career & achievements: www.imperial.ac.uk/news/265033/...
June 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM
🎉Congratulations to our brilliant 2025 cohort of ESE postgrads who graduated today from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, at the stunning Royal Albert Hall! 🧑‍🎓

#OurImperial #Graduation #Graduation2025
June 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM