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Animals may avoid high voltage power cables because of flashing UV light that is undetectable to humans, according to new research led by UCL scientists.
Dame DeAnne Julius has been named as the next Chair of UCL Council – taking over from the current Chair, Sir Stephen Wall, with effect from 1 October 2014.
Professor Maria Wyke (UCL Greek & Latin) discusses the life of Spartacus, the gladiator who led a major slave rebellion against the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC.
He was an accomplished military leader, and the campaign he led contributed significantly to the instability of the Roman state in this period. Spartacus was celebrated by some ancient historians and reviled by others, and became a hero to revolutionaries in 19th-century Europe.
Annie Cavanagh & David McCarthy (@School_Pharmacy) won a @wellcomeimages award for amazing Zebrafish image #2014WIA
What does your DNA sound like?
Dr Nicolas Gold (UCL Computer Science), in collaboration with Penny Dreadful Productions, has created a web installation that generates music based on different genetic characteristics.
The British are famous for conversations about the weather, and this winter there has been much to talk about. The United Kingdom’s December–February rainfall was the highest since records began in 1910. Tracts of southern England have been flooded for weeks. The army has been deployed to build flood defences. Once again, climate change has floated to the top of the UK political agenda.
Extreme weather tends to do that — a similar dynamic has been seen across the world. After Hurricane Sandy hit the United States in 2012, climate change became a presidential election issue. In Australia, floods, droughts and heatwaves have pushed the topic in a way that reports from climate scientists could not. As a scientist who has been on the wrong end of climate change misreporting, this surge of interest begs the question: has the often dysfunctional relationship between science and the media improved this time around?
On Tuesday 25 February, the North Cloisters was transformed into an elegant reception venue. The reason for this metamorphosis was the biggest Scholarships and Bursaries Reception UCL has ever hosted.
‘A Fusion of Worlds: Ancient Egypt, African art and identity in modernist Britain’ is an exhibition at the UCL Petrie Museum, curated by Dr Debbie Challis, Dr Gemma Romain and a team of community participants. The exhibition explores the ways in which modernist artists – Jacob Epstein, Edna Manley and Ronald Moody – have been inspired by ancient Egypt.
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