UCL in the media
The power of data
Dr Hannah Fry (UCL Advanced Spatial Analysis) comments on the collection of data, how it has changed and the risks and opportunities that come with data collection.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 (from 5 min, 35 secs)Welcome to the Meghalayan Age - a new phase in history
Geologists have classified the last 4,200 years as being a distinct age in the story of our planet - the Meghalayan Age. Professor Mark Maslin (UCL Geography) expresses his concerns about the new definition.
Read: BBC, More: Independent, Daily Mail, New ScientistHow do scientists define confidence?
In The Conversation's latest Anthill podcast, Dan Bang (UCL Neurology) explores how our brains computes our level of confidence about certain tasks and how confidence plays a role in group decisions.
Read: The ConversationArchaeologists find world's oldest bread
Professor Dorian Fuller and PhD candidate Lara Gonzalez Carratero (UCL Institute of Archaeology) published a new study providing the oldest evidence of bread at a site in Jordan, which reveals that people over 14,000 years ago had begun to eat food for social, cultural and potentially ideological reasons.
Read: BBC, More: Evening Standard, Sun, Telegraph, Daily Star, Times (£), Independent, Daily Mail, Cosmos Magazine, Yahoo, iNews, Metro, MSN, BBC Radio 5 (from 57 min, 10 secs), BBC Radio 5 (from 1 hour, 34 min), UCL News.Editing of human gene is morally permissible
Professor Joyce Harper (UCL Institute for Women's Health) comments on the findings of the study, stressing it is "impossible to predict when human genome editing might be applied on a wider scale".
Read: Financial Times (£), More: NatureFour million Britons suffer from iron deficiency
Professor Toby Richards (UCL Surgery & Interventional Sciences) has led a study revealing lack of iron as the most common vitamin and mineral deficiency in the UK.
Read: Daily MailBritain's railway arches are being sold off - and small businesses could be forced out
Francesca Froy, Honorary Research Associate (UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose) discusses the implications of Network Rail's sale of the railway arches.
Read: The ConversationWhy a chemical found in worms could hold the key to reducing epileptic seizures
Professor Dimitri Kullmann (UCL Institute of Neurology) has identified a protein in worms that significantly reduces epileptic seizures in rats. Professor Kullmann is "very optimistic" about the findings and comments on its potential availability on the NHS.
Read: iNewsThe biotech investor that aims to nurture a string of British success stories
Syncona, a medical charity, has invested in Autolus whose "CAR-T" therapies reprogramme a patient's immune system to fight cancer. The technology originates from University College London.
Read: Telegraph (£)How reading to my mother brought her back to me
Professor Alexander Leff (UCL Institute of Neurology) talks about how reading can help dementia patients feel less isolated and dependant.
Read: Daily Mail