UCL in the media
Is sugar really worse for you… or is it a big fat lie?
Professor David Allen Bender (UCL Structural & Molecular Biology) delves into the science of sugar to see if the sweet stuff is the real diet villain.
Read: SpectatorGlibc security bug affecting thousands of Linux devices outed by Google
Dr Steven Murdoch (UCL Computer Science) comments on a bug that effects Linux devices and could affect hundreds of thousands of internet-connected devices, apps and software.
Read: TelegraphThe NSA's SKYNET program may be killing thousands of innocent people
Dr George Danezis (UCL Computer Science) comments on recently published Snowden documents that detail GCHQ's machine learning methods.
Read: Ars TechnicaTor: 'Mystery' spike in hidden addresses
Dr Steven Murdoch (UCL Computer Science) says that it is "…hard to know for certain what the reason is for the jump [in hidden addresses] because one of the goals of Tor is to protect people's privacy by not disclosing how they are using Tor".
Read: BBC NewsWhat is time - and why does it move forward?
Dr Tom Kitching (UCL Space & Climate Physics) examines why scientists understand time in a completely different way.
Read: The ConversationMatt Dawson reveals 'two weeks of hell' over son's meningitis
Professor Nigel Klein (UCL Institute of Child Health) comments on the introduction of a vaccine to protect against meningitis B which will became available on the NHS in September for children under the age of one.
Read: BBC News5,000 year old Egyptian garment confirmed as world's oldest dress
The Tarkhan Dress, a V-neck linen shirt currently on display in the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, has been confirmed as the world's oldest woven garment with radiocarbon testing dating the garment to the late fourth-millennium BC.
Read: Daily Mail, More: Independent, Culture 24, National Geographic, Discovery, UCL NewsIs unconscious bias holding your pupils back?
Dr Sally Palmer (UCL Institute of Education) says that as of yet no one has been able to establish the true extent of bias in UK schools.
Read: TES (£)Warnings to GPs who dish out antibiotics
UCL research has found that both trainee and senior GPs prescribed antibiotics without clinical need when faced with a virtual reality scenario where patients angrily demanded them.
Read: Times (£), More: UCL NewsOur first sex with Neanderthals happened 100,000 years ago
Dr Maria Martinon-Torres (UCL Anthropology) comments on a study which has suggested that some Neanderthals carried modern human DNA.
Read: New Scientist (£)