UCL in the media
Ancient scrolls and AI
Dr Michael McOsker (UCL Greek & Latin) describes the scrolls and discusses how AI and 3D mapping has helped decipher an ancient scroll without damaging it as part of the Vesuvius challenge.
Russian colonel shot in the head and killed by Vladimir Putin's warlords in Chechnya
Dr Ben Noble (UCL Slavonic and East European Studies) said: “Ramzan Kadyrov is bolstering support for his family with the possible prospect that he may be seriously ill."
Children of care leavers risk inheriting parents’ emotional scars
The trauma associated with care experience casts a long shadow on mothers’ mental health and that of their children, finds new UCL research led by Dr Sam Parsons (UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies).
Dementia risk linked to age of first period
UCL researchers, including Professor Louise Marston (Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care) found that women who started their periods at or under the age of 12 were 12 percent less likely to develop dementia than those who began menstruating at or after 15.
Academic staff departures at Hong Kong public universities hit highest since 1997 handover, with 380 leaving jobs
Professor Paul Morris (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society) said Hong Kong had become far less attractive for academics since the introduction of the national security law in 2020, especially for those working in the social sciences.
You may be eating ‘predigested’ foods — and they’re making you fatter, experts warn
Dr Chris Van Tulleken (UCL Infection & Immunity) suggests ultra-processed foods undergo “predigestion,” which makes them seem less filling than truly whole and undigested foods.
Quitting smoking reduces cancer risk at any age, says study
Professor Robert West (UCL Epidemiology & Health) said: “This study confirms two crucial facts, one is that it can take many years for the risk of cancer to decrease relative to continuing smoking. The other is that the decrease is greater for those who quit at a younger age.”
New dinosaur-like reptile discovered in Scotland after bones found on field trip
A newly-discovered species of pterosaur has been named Ceoptera evansae, in honour of Professor Susan Evans (UCL Cell & Developmental Biology).
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Europe’s new AI rules could go global
Dr Michael Veale (UCL Laws) says the EU’s new AI Act is “at heart, an adaptation of EU product regulation”.
UK inaction on AI regulation
The UK has had “endless government and parliamentary reports, commissions, bodies, codes and centres around AI”, says Dr Michael Veale (UCL Laws), but this hasn’t resulted in an ambitious vision for how to oversee it.