UCL in the media
Mentoring offers a cure to mid-career drain of tech talent
Professor Sue Black (UCL Computer Science) discusses the value of women mentoring each other to help overcome the challenges they face working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics industries.
Read: FT (£)A low-cost water sensor could stop millions of lives being put at risk
A low-cost, easy-to-use arsenic sensor to test drinking water has been developed by Dr Joanne Santini (UCL Structural & Molecular Biology) along with colleagues at Imperial College London.
Read: Yahoo News, More: UCL NewsJupiter: scientists spot pentagon pattern of cyclones
Professor Andrew Coates (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) writes about the recent discovery by scientists on NASA's Juno mission that Jupiter has surprising "polygonal" shapes of cyclones at its poles - including a pentagon at the south pole - and that its banded structure persists to depths of 3,000km.
Read: The ConversationCamden town hall artworks are rediscovered following fears they were destroyed
Dr Kaori O'Connor (UCL Anthropology) stumbled on the 6ft-high works by Cecil Osborne at a jumble sale in 1998 and has spent years attempting to pin down their origin.
Read: Evening StandardScience meets conservation on The Mary Rose
PhD student Hayley Simon (UCL Archaeology) and Professor Ian Freestone (UCL Archaeology) have been part of a ground breaking partnership with the Mary Rose and Diamond Light Source to protect and preserve 1,200 cannonballs from Henry VIII's flagship vessel, the Mary Rose.
Read: BBC News, More: Daily Mail, UCL News.UCL celebrates exceptional women with 'Female Firsts' art project
To coincide with International Women's Day 2018, UCL Artist-in-Residence, Kristina Clackson Bonnington, announces her new art project 'female firsts' which celebrates 12 exceptional UCL women.
Read: A-N Magazine, More: UCL News.Can we have gender equality if we're still using gendered language?
PhD candidate Laura Marshall (UCL Geography) talks about the power of language and how recognising all forms of gender is crucial to equality.
Read: MetroWhat are nerve agents and what do they do?
Professor Andrea Sella (UCL Chemistry) explains the toxicity of nerve agents following police reports that a nerve agent was used in an attempt to murder the Russian former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury.
Read: BBC News, More: Sky News, iNews, The Telegraph, Financial Times (£), Reuters.Scientists studying worms find how death spreads through the body
Professor David Gems and Dr Evgeniy Galimov (UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing) have found new discoveries about how death actually works by studying earthworms.
Read: The Independent, Daily Mail, More: UCL NewsUCL professors win the 2018 Brain Prize
The 2018 Brain Prize, the world's most valuable prize for brain research at €1m, has been awarded to Professor John Hardy (UCL Institute of Neurology) and Professor Bart De Strooper (UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL) for their groundbreaking research on the genetic and molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease.
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