UCL in the media
Plans for UK’s first menopause education programme launched by UCL academics
A team of UCL experts led by Professor Joyce Harper (UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health) and Dr Shema Tariq (UCL Institute for Global Health) have teamed up with leading women’s health charities to design a new education and support programme for women experiencing menopause.
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New Covid variant with ‘high number of mutations’ found in UK
Professor Francois Balloux (UCL Genetics Institute) calls a new strain of the virus causing Covid-19 “the most striking SARS-CoV-2 strain the world has witnessed since the emergence of Omicron”, but adds that a wave of severe disease and death is unlikely thanks to immunity.
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Extreme renting: how rising rates turned the screws on tenants across Europe
The heated market in housing hotspots is compounded by increasing mortgage costs deterring buyers. Professor Yolande Barnes (UCL Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction) said: “These cities are victims of their own success.”
MRI scans improve prostate cancer diagnosis in screening trial
Using MRI as a screening test alongside PSA density allowed detection of cancers that would have been missed by the blood test alone, according to new research from Professor Caroline Moore and Professor Mark Emberton (UCL Surgery & Interventional Sciences).
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Will AI take your job?
Professor Jack Stilgoe (UCL Science & Technology Studies) says ChatGPT does an “extraordinarily good job of seeming human-like”, but “underneath the hood… it is designed to do one thing: predict what the next word in a sentence is going to be”.
To make good decisions about AI, we need to apply the Weizenbaum test
Inspired by arguments from the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum, Professor Jack Stilgoe (UCL Science & Technology Studies) suggests that, “rather than asking whether these [AI] machines are intelligent, we should instead ask whether they are useful”.
The public image of wasps
Professor Seirian Sumner (UCL Biosciences) is interviewed about wasps, saying they have important ecosystem roles including as pollinators and as 'nature's pest controllers'.
Trump Voters Trust Ex-President More Than Their Family and Friends: Poll
In response to a new poll, Dr Brian Klaas (UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society) commented: "Again: to understand the modern GOP, you need to understand what an authoritarian cult of personality is, because that's what it has become."
Expert warns 'there's not much we can do' despite real threat of supervolcano eruption
Professor Christopher Kilburn (UCL Earth Sciences) says it is a "myth" that the world's supervolcanoes are being watched by the appropriate authorities, warning that little would prevent the ensuing chaos should one erupt.
Creatine or maca — should you take the new supplements?
"Rigorous clinical trials on humans are lacking, especially when it comes to weight loss," says Alex Ruani, doctoral researcher at IOE - UCL's Faculty of Education & Society.