Future research
Medical breakthroughs, scientific discoveries and new technologies conceived at Imperial College have helped shape the last 100 years. Imperial researchers are now tackling the issues of the next 100 years and beyond.
Imperial's new multi-million pound Centre
for Climate Change Research is identifying, measuring and tackling the
problems caused by global warming.
Our Energy Futures Lab is working out how the world can meet its future energy needs at the same time as addressing the environmental impact of energy production and use. It brings together the College's experts in energy efficiency, fossil fuel decarbonisation, transport, the urban environment, nuclear energy, electrical networks, power generation and renewable energy technologies.
Imperial's Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, together with international partner programmes, is treating millions of people across the world for schistosomiasis and other neglected tropical diseases. The programmes aim to see diseases such as disfiguring elephantiasis, leprosy and river blindness largely consigned to history within the next 10 years. These diseases cause severe disability among the world's poorest people and keep generations in a cycle of poverty.
Imperial researchers are using computers to model how infectious diseases work, so that the world can calculate the best way to tackle any outbreak of disease such as H5N1 avian flu ('bird flu'), and prevent this from spreading.
Earth scientists at Imperial hope to answer fundamental questions about the origins of the solar system by analysing cosmic dust from the Wild-2 comet. Comets are thought to be the most primitive things in the solar system, unaltered since before the planets began to form. Dust from Wild-2 was taken during a 2.88 billion mile round trip by the Stardust spacecraft.
Imperial particle physicists are taking a leading role in the biggest
experiment on earth, at the CERN facility in Switzerland, a tunnel that
runs in a circle for 27km. The Imperial team is working on the Compact Muon
Solenoid experiment which will measure and identify new particles produced
by extremely high-energy particle collisions. The physicists hope to prove
the existence of the Higgs-Boson particle (sometimes known as the 'God particle')
which generates mass.
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