UCL in the media
Best probiotics to take for IBS symptoms
Professor Simon Gaisford (UCL School of Pharmacy) advises on the best probiotics to take and emphasise that a maintaining a healthy gut is one of the best things you can do to ward off illness or disease.
Can the UK still hit net zero?
Professor Michael Grubb (UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources) says a decision to drop the 2030 fossil fuel car deadline would be “extraordinary”, ahead of Rishi Sunak's proposals being announced.
Ingmar Bergman’s most celebrated film
Professor Claire Thomson (UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society, SELCS) joins a discussion about Ingmar Bergman’s film The Seventh Seal.
MRI scans improve prostate cancer diagnosis
Professor Caroline Moore (UCL Surgery & Interventional Science and consultant surgeon at ʼһH) discusses her research showing that using MRI as a screening test alongside PSA density allowed detection of cancers that would have been missed by the blood test alone.
What scientists think of UK’s net zero U-turn
Professor Jim Watson (UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources) and Professor Mark Maslin (UCL Geography) criticise Rishi Sunak’s U-turn, saying it will make it harder for the UK to meet climate targets and “goes against sensible economics”.
Finding alien life may require finding new sorts of planets
In a piece about a possible signal of life on the planet K2-18b, the Economist references UCL researchers including Professor Giovanna Tinetti (UCL Physics & Astronomy) detecting water vapour on the planet in 2019.
How to support someone who is experiencing domestic abuse
Dr Karen Schucan Bird (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society) writes about how best to support survivors of domestic abuse, drawing on her research findings.
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Is House GOP imploding?
Dr Thomas Gift (UCL Centre on US Politics) says Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s influence on Republicans in the House of Representatives is weakening and that the real surprise is that it didn’t happen sooner.
Solar storm: why the next disaster could come from the sun
A solar storm’s disruption to GPS and similar satellite networks would cause a “rolling cascade of effects” that are difficult to capture in tabletop exercises, says Visiting Professor Ewan Haggarty (UCL Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction).
Researchers discover how neurons die in Alzheimer’s disease
A team of researchers led by Professor Bart De Strooper (UK Dementia Research Institute at ʼһ, and VIB-KU Leuven) and Dr Sriram Balusu (VIB-KU Leuven) have discovered how neurons die in Alzheimer’s disease.
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