UCL in the media
How urban vegetation can store as much carbon as rainforests
New laser scanning techniques measuring the biomass of urban trees are showing that areas such as inner-London borough Camden are as carbon dense as tropical rainforests. Dr Mat Disney (UCL Geography) discusses his research using Lidar technology (light detection and ranging).
Read: The Independent, More: The ConversationThe teaching of religious education in schools
Dr Farid Panjwani (UCL Institute of Education) and other education professionals respond to a recent Times article, expressing concern that low levels of religious education at secondary school level means too many teenagers are being deprived of vital knowledge about different faiths and beliefs in community, public and world affairs.
Read: The TimesAustralia beats UK for overseas students
Research by Professor Simon Marginson (UCL Centre for Global Higher Education) has tracked the latest movements in international students. He says Australia is overtaking the UK as the world's second biggest destination for international students.
Read: BBC, More: Times (£)Investors should intervene to stop high executive pay, before the regulator does
Dr Paul Ormerod (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) talks about shareholder discontent over executive pay and the effect on company performance.
Read: City AMStar Wars: Secrets of hyper-reality experiences
Professor Sophie Scott (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) comments on hyper-reality vs virtual reality and how our brains function in order to make hyper-reality work.
Listen: BBC World Service (from 19 mins)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: Nature