UCL in the media
Are Fingerprints the Best Form of ID?
Dr Itiel Dror (UCL Security & Crime Science) discusses how identifying fingerprints can be biased by contextual factors.
Listen: BBC World Service 'CrowdScience' (from 9 mins 51 secs)Is May Day becoming increasingly politically significant?
Professor Philippe Marlière (UCL School of European Languages, Culture & Society) is interviewed about May Day protests in France.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'The World Tonight' (from 23 mins 21 secs)Money earned by exploitation is less rewarding
A UCL study involving Professor Ray Dolan (UCL Max Planck Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research) found that the brain responds less to money gained from immoral actions than money earned decently.
Read: The Guardian, More: The Telegraph, Daily Mail, Huffington Post, Wired, Scientific American, UCL NewsUCL's bold plan to automate financial regulation
Professor Philip Treleaven (UCL Computer Science) plans on automating financial regulation by coding up smart contracts that might be used to capture and automate compliance monitoring.
Read: International Business Times, More: NewsweekCan Empathy Protect You From Burnout?
A study involving Professor Chris Barker and Dr Lucy Maddox (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) found that, among police officers who work with survivors of rape and sexual assault, those with the high levels of empathy were less likely to experience burnout.
Read: Huffington PostMercury - Chemistry's Jekyll and Hyde
Professor Andrea Sella (UCL Chemistry) tells the story of Mercury, explaining the significance of this element not just for chemistry, but also the development of modern civilisation.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'In Their Element' (from the start)Behind the scenes of the Lux-Zeppelin experiment into dark matter
Dr Chamkaur Ghag (UCL Physics & Astronomy) explains UCL's role in screening the 500 materials that will be used in the Lux-Zeppelin experiment to detect one of the candidates for dark matter - the weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP).
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Inside Science' (from 21 mins 10 secs)Drones listen in on bats to reveal their in-flight secrets
Professor Kate Jones (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) says that little known about what bats get up to high in the air and using drones like this could give us clues, providing the bats don't fly away from them.
Read: New ScientistThe Brain Has Its Own "Autofill" Function for Speech
Professor Sophie Scott (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) comments on a study into how our brains interpret what comes next when we hear speech.
Read: Scientific AmericanBittersweet feeling as Cassini mission embarks on its 'grand finale' ahead of death plunge
Professor Andrew Coates (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) reflects on the finale of the Cassini mission exploring Saturn and its moons that he's worked on for 28 years.
Read: The Conversation