UCL in the media
Touchless computing software developed
Researchers in UCL’s Department of Computer Science developed MotionInput 3, touchless accessibility software for any computer that uses a webcam to detect and interpret movement from gestures.
Many long-Covid sufferers may be undiagnosed
Because Covid-19 is often portrayed “as a short, flu-like disease, especially in the young,” people might not realise that later health issues may be related to the disease, said Professor Elisa Perego (UCL Institute of Archaeology).
Study links universal credit to rising crime rates
A study by Matteo Tiratelli (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education & Society) found “salient and plausible evidence linking [Universal Credit] to an increase in recorded crime.”
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Later diagnosis of children with Wilms tumours in the UK leads to lower survival chances
Children in the UK and Republic of Ireland with Wilms tumour – a common children’s kidney cancer – are less likely to survive than those in Germany and France due to later diagnosis, finds a new study led by Professor Kathy Pritchard-Jones (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health).
Grocery store theatrics
Dr Dimitrios Tsivrikos (UCL Psychology & Lang Sciences) describes how businesses employ ‘consumer theatrics’ to make products visually appealing to entice or even mislead consumers to purchase them.
Getting Ofsted to listen to students
Dr Chris Bagley (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education & Society) leads the States of Mind project, an effort to get Ofsted to listen and engage more directly with students during the office’s inspections of schools.
Reindeer eyes change to match the season
Professor Glen Jeffery and Dr Robert Fosbury (both at ʼһ Institute of Ophthalmology) worked together to learn the secret of how reindeer seasonally change the colour of their eye to better see during the long dark arctic winter.
Hope for unexpected discoveries at the Large Hadron Collider
“I would have been a little disappointed if we’d discovered [supersymmetry] because it would have been just another example of experiment following theory,” said Professor Jon Butterworth (UCL Physics & Astronomy).
New climate change book reaches audiences through humour
“The funny comes first. [But] comedy is really good at helping people to focus, and people learn much better when the positive parts of the brain are stimulated,” said Dr Matthew Winning (UCL Bartlett School Environment, Energy & Resources).
More than 270,000 Covid infections a day
“I anticipate that [the Covid infection rate] will peak (or at least plateau) in the next week or two – but I could be very wrong,” said Professor Karl Friston (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology).