UCL in the media
US warning about terror attack 'unheeded'
Professor Mark Galeotti (UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies) spoke of Vladimir Putin’s reaction to the Islamic State attack on Moscow: “He was irritated that this public warning came as an embarrassment and a spoiler before this election."
Understanding the health risks of vaping
Action is “absolutely needed” to tackle youth vaping but it cannot be at the cost of driving potential and existing smokers back onto cigarettes, says Professor Lion Shahab (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care).
App can help people reduce their alcohol intake
A free smartphone app, Drink Less, can help people who would benefit most from reducing their alcohol consumption to do so successfully, according to a large randomised controlled trial led by UCL researchers, led by Dr Melissa Oldham (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care)
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Humans pass more viruses to other animals than we catch from them
Humans pass on more viruses to domestic and wild animals than we catch from them, according to analysis of viral genomes by Professor Francois Balloux (UCL Genetics Institute), PhD student Cedric Tan (UCL Genetics Institute) and Dr Lucy van Dorp (UCL Genetics Institute).
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How UCL research helped achieve the UKs’ first cyberflashing conviction
The first conviction of cyberflashing, which was directly informed by Prof Jessica Ringrose (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society) and Dr Kaitlyn Regehr’s (UCL Information Studies) research has taken place, evidencing the online harms of a ‘dangerously normalised’ practice.
Donald Trump is crushing Joe Biden in Michigan
Dr Thomas Gift (UCL Political Science) said: "Trump was able to flip the Wolverine state narrowly in 2016, and if recent polling is indicative, he looks poised to make a serious run at it again".
Could anti-Trump Republicans form a brand-new party?
Dr Thomas Gift (UCL Political Science) said forming a new party would be ‘political suicide’ for Donald Trump. He said: "Trump has remade the GOP thoroughly in his own image".
New classification of tuberculosis to support efforts to eliminate the disease
A new way to classify tuberculosis (TB) that aims to improve focus on the early stages of the disease has been presented by an international team involving researchers at UCL, including Dr Hanif Esmail (UCL Institute for Global Health).
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What’s happening to arctic ice?
Professor Julienne Stroeve (UCL Earth Sciences) explains how to read the data regarding recent fluctuations in the arctic ocean’s ice levels.
Donald Trump has a suburban problem
Dr Thomas Gift (UCL Political Science) said: "Trump is doubtlessly alienating to large swathes of suburbia, which tend have higher concentrations of wealthier and college-educated voters that have broadly turned away from the GOP”.