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Monkeypox could affect any group
Professor Ali Zumla (UCL Infection & Immunity) urges people to avoid any “prejudicial, unfair and stigmatising” judgements about groups that monkeypox seems to be affecting.
Opinion: How Vladimir Putin today compares to Adolf Hitler in his bunker
Between the isolation, the paranoia and micromanaging the military, Professor Mark Galeotti (UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies) sees parallels between Vladimir Putin today and Adolf Hitler during his final days.
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The animal origins of cooperation
Professors Nichola Raihani (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) and Seirian Sumner (UCL Biosciences) explore the origins and nature of cooperation in humans and throughout the animal kingdom, from apes to wasps.
The impacts of climate change
"It was terrifyingly lethal in British Columbia last year and in India and Pakistan this year... There is little we can do, except stop the climate change we are causing," said Professor Ilan Kelman (UCL Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction).
Unidentified cases spreading monkeypox
Professor Francois Balloux (UCL Genetics Institute) said scientists are still trying to identify how monkeypox is spreading, but likely “there are circulations that have been missed, some people who have been infected and passed it on have not been identified.”
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Discovery of 'ghost' fossils reveals plankton resilience to past global warming events
An international team of scientists from UCL, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, the University of Florence and Natural History Museum have found a remarkable type of fossilization that has remained almost entirely overlooked until now.
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Fossilised faeces offer insights into diets of Stonehenge builders
“New evidence tells us something new about the people who came here for winter feasts during the construction of Stonehenge. Pork and beef were spit-roasted or boiled in clay pots but… the offal wasn't always so well cooked,” said Professor Mike Parker Pearson (UCL Archaeology).
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UK population reached “hybrid immunity”
Either through vaccination, infection or other exposure, 99 percent of the UK shows evidence of Covid-19 antibodies offering high levels of protection from the virus, said Professor Irene Petersen (UCL Epidemiology & Health).
Archaeologists scout Jersey for Ice Age sites
"We know there is a record of Neanderthal archaeology and extinct fauna, such as mammoth, out there waiting to be discovered and documented,” said Dr Matthew Pope (UCL Institute of Archaeology).
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Vladimir Putin’s personal style of authoritarianism
"Vladimir Putin has created a personalist authoritarian system in which loyalty is often privileged over competence… It is also a system with extraordinary coercive means domestically,” said Dr Ben Noble (UCL School of Slavonic & European Studies).