UCL in the media
'Defending the USS defined benefits at all costs is a mistake'
Professor David Voas (UCL Institute of Education) argues that converting the USS into a defined contributions scheme could give younger academics a bigger pension pot.
Read: Times Higher EducationTech Thinks It Has a Fix for the Problems It Created: Blockchain
Angela Walch (UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies) comments that Blockchain has the means and the incentive to address some of the issues facing the tech sector such as giving people more ownership over their data.
Read: New York TimesThe Long View of Donald Trump's trade plans
Dr Adam Smith (UCL History) discusses Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the Treasury established under the George Washington administration, and the legacy he left on economics in America today.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'The Long View' (from 1 min 23 secs).MRI scans could put an end to prostate cancer biopsies
Professor Mark Emberton (UCL Medical Sciences) is co-leading a new clinical study using MRI scans to detect prostate cancer earlier and more accurately.
Read: Daily Mail, More: Express, UCL NewsEngland has become one of the world's biggest education laboratories
Professor Becky Francis (UCL Institute of Education) comments on the fact there is little evidence to support most marking schemes employed by schools. She states that teachers like proof they are right and it is more difficult to change behaviour when they are wrong.
Read: The EconomistSound and Hearing
Dr Jennifer Bizley (UCL Ear Institute) explains how the brain reacts to specific sounds.
Listen: BBC Radio 5 Live 'Science' (from 12 mins 5 secs).Brexit's big to do list
Professor Eloise Scotford (UCL Laws) comments that many areas of environmental law are poised for dilution or gaps in governance on Brexit day but climate change is different as the UK has its own world-leading legislation in the Climate Change Act 2008.
Read: New Scientist (£).Car headlights are too bright
Professor John Marshall (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) explains that at night our pupils open wider to let in more light, and when our eyes meet the headlight of another car the light scatters around our eyes making it difficult to see.
Read: Daily Mail.Revise seven hours a day over Easter, says education expert
Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (UCL Cognitive Neuroscience) says teenagers are already under a lot of stress facing massive pressures academically and socially so recommendations like this might not be helpful.
Read: BBC NewsMicrosoft gambles on a quantum leap in computing
Professor John Morton (UCL Computer Science) says it is a big year for the field in the race to quantum supremacy, commenting on the news that Microsoft is confident that it has found the key to creating a quantum computer.
Read: BBC News