The BBC seem to think that we’re running out of Georgian terraces, and have recommended one for you to rush-see-before-it-vanishes. The BBC need a new architectural historian. A coach driver averted tragedy when silly-bugger teenagers threw rocks through his windscreen. Silverjet seem to have been thrown a lifeline. There have been fourteen arrests after drugs-related raids in East London. A thirty two hour siege in Bexley has ended peacefully. D’oh! Top secret lack-of-intelligence papers......

Imperial College is to pilot an entry exam. Sometimes we get more information than we really need, like how DJ Kevin Greening really died. Athens reckons that we need more Olympic enthusiasm. Schoolgirl Arsema Dawitt had been stalked before her appalling murder on Monday. Boris has made his last appearance as an MP. Black cabs are to become green cabs. Operation Blunt, the new stop and search initiative to combat knife crime, seems to......

21/7 men found guilty. Academic couple killed in car crash on M11. Cavalry Museum opens in Whitehall. Prince Philip becomes a Doctor of Science while his wife opens a new department and grants new charter to Imperial College - which breaks away from the University of London on its 100th anniversary. Phew, what a day to be a Royal. A (possibly) well-named Dr Pratt (allegedly) prescribed an exorcism and other mumbo-jumbo to a Muslim......

The war over intellectual property rights has opened up a new front as London scientists kick off the new year with a shot across the bow of Big Pharma: Two UK-based academics have devised a way to invent new medicines and get them to market at a fraction of the cost charged by big drug companies, enabling millions in poor countries to be cured of infectious diseases and potentially slashing the NHS drugs bill.......

Michael Halls-Moore is a man on a mission. Or, rather, a man wanting to be on a mission. His dream is to go into space. But he's a student at Imperial College, and not the most likely client for Richard Branson's 100-grand-a-shot Virgin Galactic trips. No matter. He's going to get there anyway thanks to a cunning internet scheme based on the Milliondollarhomepage concept of pixel-based advertising. On his website, BuyMeToTheStars.com, you can purchase......

Event of the week Game On, Science Museum Remember that game on the ZX81 in which you had to manoeuvre a letter X through a minefield of dangerous letter O's? And the equally addictive follow-up, in which the Earth (represented by a series of hyphens) needed saving from a belligerent battlegroup of aliens (menacingly realised as a creeping cluster of hashes)? Ah, happy days. Well, apparently, gaming has developed somewhat since then. And we......

Event of the Week Confronting the Goldilocks enigma: why is the Universe so uncannily fit for life?, Imperial College tomorrow As topics go, they don't really come much bigger than this: The latest advances in cosmology have allowed scientists to piece together the story of our universe in unprecedented detail. One of the striking features to emerge is how the universe is exquisitely bio-friendly. Even slight changes in the laws of physics or the......

The average London house price has risen to its highest level yet: £250,907. Oh joy. Imperial College London has split from University of London. Wonder who'll get custody of the kids. The much anticipated Adventure Playground of the Year award has gone to the Fredericks Adventure Playground in Southwark. Paul Weller is going to open the Electric Proms, which is a bit disappointing if we're honest. A pair of 18th-century porcelain dentures have gone......

Earlier this summer we were treated to a display of the musical talent in the cultural hothouse that is South Kensington: however, the Exhibition Road Music Day was just the tip of the iceberg. Starting from yesterday until 27 August, there will be a new artistic approach to celebrating and exploring what we already know about the area and, even better, what we didn't know and would be pleasantly surprised to discover... International arts......

The Exhibition Road Music Day takes place tomorrow on (surprise!) Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the cultural saturation point of London that counts the Victoria & Albert Museum, Natural History Museum, Institut Francais, Goethe-Institut and Imperial College among its local businesses. Starting at 10.00am and going on until midnight or whenever the fat lady stops singing, this free event will feature a dizzying array of musical mayhem from across the world. The Music Day......

These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com No ‘Event of the Week’ in today’s listings. Sorry. Two reasons. (1) Nothing really catches the eye this week (the big event - Richard Dawkins talking about The Selfish Gene 30 Years On - is sold out). (2) This Londonista is getting married in a few days and, frankly,......

Robotic surgeons are less the stuff of science fiction than you might think. Our metal minions are increasingly used in surgical procedures, allowing greater precision, and operation by telepresence. Londonist is no stranger to the combination of flesh and machine (no giggles at the back). In our formative years, we received a crude lesson in mechanical suture application during a particularly gory crafts lesson. If we just say the featured elements were a couple......

We all remember the adverts in the back of our childhood comics that promised superhuman abilities for the price of a postal order and stamped addressed envelope. And we all carry the eventual disappointment that rose in our hearts when we realised that, well, they didn't really work. Of course these days the closest we've got is the terrorist-thwarting X-Ray machines on the Heathrow Express but we're pretty certain the relevant authorities would frown......

It Came From Outer-space… …And landed in a London laboratory last week. Workers at Imperial College’s Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering have got their fingers on a few grains of a very precious dust. The tiny crumbs come from comet Wild-2 and were collected by Nasa’s barnstorming Stardust probe. Sometimes we moan about the travails of commuting into work from a few miles out of London. But consider this for a journey into......

At 2:30 this afternoon Bob Crow will hold a press conference at RMT headquarters to announce the ballot result of 1,500 Tube drivers. A Romanian Airlines Boeing 737 on its way to London has had to make an emergency landing in Brussels due to a crack in a window. London bankers who are unhappy with their slice of the bonus pie are increasingly resorting to litigation to get what they view as their fair share.......

Every now and again we ask old grandmother Londonist for a little extra pocket money* so we can take a cab and laugh at all the people struggling with ticket machines as we whiz across the city knocking pedestrians and cyclists asunder like they were infected, cutting up drivers and tipping extra to see the turning circle in use. You've got to get your thrills where you can. But now we may have to......

Imperial College held its vote about leaving the University of London today and, after years of mutterings, has finally served notice that it will leave the University of London. As we said a few weeks ago, losing the science, technology and medicine college is a gnat of a threat to the University's future compared to the mammoth damage that could be caused by the QAA withholding its 'broad vote of confidence'. (An even greater threat......

"No sorry, I couldn't buy you anything this year as I didn't want to damage my lungs." That could work couldn't it? Especially if you accompanied it with a bit of wheezy breathing and the odd hacking cough. You see, those trusty researchers at Imperial College London have been doing some proper work (as opposed to getting dressed up and trashing other colleges) and have discovered that "Christmas shoppers in London's Oxford Street are......

This week seems to be the week for colleges banning things. First we had the Imperial College banning hoodies in a ridiculous attempt to 'increase security'; and now the Royal College of Art has banned 'camping'. Now it's not that Kensington is a popular spot for ramblers or anything, but the college's annual lucky dip picture postcard sale does attract a lot of 'early birds', with hopeful punters this year pitching up as early......

Debates about the future of the federal University of London have been going on since Londonist was a mere slip of a tax-dodger at the LSE, about three stones lighter and a touch over a decade ago, and we dare say those debates were taking place a long time before we arrived on the scene. At the heart of the threat to the University of London has always been the superiority complexes of 'the......

Our own boys in blue have got into something of a spat with the NYPD over information that our police has yet to release. A briefing was given to security experts and leading business figures in New York that revealed detailed information about the London bombings. The police here are understandably miffed about this and say it's not helpful to their investigation. The Americans have said that they've been doing this kind of thing......

London is once again leading the way when it comes to advances in science with boffins at Imperial College making a breakthrough in the field of making people want to eat less. A small study had 26 people injected with the hormone oxyntomodulin, which is the stuff that's released in the body to tell you that your stomach is full and now would be a good time to stop eating, fatty. "Well, this is......

The chairman of trustees for the Science Museum, Lord Waldegrave of North Hill, has written to the Daily Telegraph to warn that the museum may have to sell off its Imperial College library to stay out financial trouble. After already closing four galleries and cutting back on staff (which has led to at least one significant theft), the museum is asking for an additional £3 million on top of its current grant in order......

Looking at the timetable of London-based events for next week, there's one that seems to just jump out at us: The benefits of female promiscuity at the Imperial College on 17 November. With a title like that how can Londonist resist? For just £8 you can listen to Dr Olivia Judson (author of Dr.Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation) debunk the myths that all men are natural philanderers and all females are naturally chaste,......