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The UKRI monopoly risks stifling innovation
Professor Donald Braben (UCL Earth Sciences) co-authors an opinion piece suggesting UKRI may, by monopolising research funding, in fact stifle innovation.
Read: Times Higher Education (£)World first as DNA surgery removes genetic disease from human embryo
Professor Joyce Harper (UCL Institute for Women's Health) comments on a new procedure that has mended harmful mutations in human embryos for the first time.
Read: Times (£), More: Guardian, Independent, Daily Mail, BBC News, Australian, MirrorFor boys at risk of psychopathy, laughter isn't so contagious
Professor Essi Viding (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) has led a study showing that for boys at risk of developing psychopathy, laughter isn't as contagious as it is for most other people.
Read: Times (£), More: Daily Mail, New Zealand Herald, Independent, UCL News, DiscoverGoing to the theatre could be as good for your heart as half an hour of exercise
Dr Joseph Devlin (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) has co-led a study showing that going to the theatre can stimulate the cardiovascular system as much as doing nearly half an hour of exercise.
Read: iNews, More: Sun, Daily Mail, Evening Standard, BBC Radio 2 'Vanessa Feltz' (from 26 mins 25 secs)Clueless on Cuba's economy
Dr Emily Morris (UCL Institute of the Americas) emphasises the importance of fixing the currency system in Cuba as a precondition for further economic liberalisation.
Read: The EconomistLatin America's battle over 'gender ideology'
Professor Maxine Molyneux (UCL Institute of the Americas) says that the moral panic caused by conservative campaigns in Latin American about the dissolution of the family has 'no basis in fact'.
Read: The EconomistCarbon found in 3.95bn-year-old rocks is remnant of ancient life - researchers
Matthew Dodd and Dr Dominic Papineau (UCL Earth Sciences and the London Centre for Nanotechnology) have commented on research that suggests the discovery of carbon in 3.95 billion year old rocks indicates remnants of ancient organisms.
Read: The Guardian, More: GizmodoDr Hannah Fry is interviewed on flu outbreak as winter approaches
Dr Hannah Fry (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) is interviewed about how a flu pandemic spreads and the launch of her experiment to monitor this infectious disease.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Today' (from 2 hrs 23 mins), More: UCL News, BBC News, BBC Radio 5 Live 'Breakfast' (from 1 hr 56 mins)Centenarians are fastest growing age group in UK, figures show
Professor Sir Michael Marmot (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) is quoted in an article on centenarians being the fastest growing age group in the UK, and the number of 100 year olds almost doubling over a 14 year period.
Read: The GuardianAre You Anxious? Worry a Lot? That Can Be Good For You!
Caroline Charpentier (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) is quoted in an article on the potential benefits of worrying.
Read: Huffington Post
