UCL in the media
Complex molecules essential to life can form in dust around young stars
The mystery of how complex molecules essential to life first formed may have been solved by a new study involving Dr Paola Pinilla (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory).
Read: Space.com, More: Yahoo! News, La Nacion (Argentina), MDZ Mundo (Argentina), Europa Press (Spain), Aristegui Noticias (Mexico), UCL News
Joe Biden's Supreme Court plan faces major hurdles
Biden's reform plans are a "symbolic gesture designed more to appease the progressive left" than they are a serious attempt at overhauling the Supreme Court bench, explains Dr Thomas Gift (UCL Political Science).
How Olympians manage their periods
Research conducted by UCL academics including Dr Flaminia Ronca (UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science) is cited in a Telegraph article that explores how menstruation can affect female athletes competing at the Paris Olympics.
How could European housing policies influence the UK?
“The real problem is not that we’re not building enough homes, it’s that we have turned housing into a financial asset,” says Dr Josh Ryan-Collins (UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose), adding that this is down to 1970s housing policy that prioritised home ownership.
How preventive medicine could be key to saving the NHS
Professor Sir Nicholas Wald (UCL Institute of Health Informatics) and Professor Aroon Hingorani (UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science) welcome the call for the UK to focus on disease prevention as "too many preventive health opportunities are missed".
How not having a home phone impacts our brains
Phones have moved from a place to a person, explains Professor Sophie Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience), who describes how the eradication of landline phones in most households may have affected human behaviour.
What is autism spectrum disorder?
Autism diagnosis criteria have changed over the years, explains Professor Joshua Stott (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences), which has created a "lost generation" of older people who may now meet those criteria.
New clues point towards how exercise reduces symptoms of depression
The processes in the brain and body through which physical exercise reduces depressive symptoms have been explored by UCL researchers including Dr Emily Hird (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience).
Read: Telegraph (£), More: MSN, Yahoo! News, New Atlas, El Tiempo (Colombia), UCL News
EU regulator rejects Alzheimer's drug lecanemab
"I am sure we will now see rich people with early Alzheimer’s disease flying to the US or other jurisdictions for treatment," says Professor Sir John Hardy (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) who is critical of the EU's decision.
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Academics react to Labour halting freedom of speech law in universities
Nine UCL academics including Professor Alice Sullivan and Professor Emla Fitzsimons (both IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society) sign a letter to the Observer objecting to Bridget Phillipson’s decision to halt the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023.