UCL in the media
Could tax cuts benefit everyone?
In an article exploring the impacts of tax cuts, Visiting Professor Paul Ormerod (UCL Computer Science) suggests recent cuts and improved US economic growth this year may be linked.
Read: City AMCould we send nuclear waste to the sun?
In a programme exploring options for disposing of nuclear waste, Professor Lucie Green (UCL Space & Climate Physics) comments that sending waste to the sun is "feasible but not without enormous risk."
Listen: BBC World Service 'CrowdScience' (from 11 mins 44 secs)Trump and US midterms discussed
Thomas Gift (UCL Political Science) discusses the US midterm elections and recent Trump pronouncements.
Watch: Euronews 'Good Morning Europe' (from beginning, via Twitter)How will Brexit affect further education in the UK?
Professor Peter Scott (UCL Institute of Education) expresses his concerns over the future of further education in the UK, post-Brexit.
Read: GuardianIs there a gender imbalance in healthcare?
Co-author Professor Judith Mank (UCL Biosciences) discusses a new study suggesting a gender imbalance in healthcare research, diagnosis and treatment.
Read: Daily MailNew research on child tonsil operations
New research on child tonsil operations and subsequent readmissions may have 'limitations', commented Professor Martin Birchall (UCL Ear Institute), saying the data misses the majority of bleeding episodes that occur at home, or present to emergency centres.
Read: GuardianUS midterm elections
Thomas Gift (UCL Political Science) comments on the US midterm elections.
Listen: BBC World Service 'World Update' (from 1 min 30 secs)The Shetland Islands against insets
Dr Nick Bearman (UCL Geography) discusses the Shetland islanders' ongoing dispute with map-makers over their continual 'insetting' of the archipelago.
Read: The ConversationComet tails: Charged dust blowing in the solar wind
How a comet's dust tail forms bands stretching millions of kilometres across the sky has been observed for the first time by PhD student Oliver Price and Professor Geraint Jones (UCL Space & Climate Physics).
Notorious 1920s murder case judgement may have been illegal
Commenting on evidence about the hanging of Edith Thompson for murder in 1923, Professor René Weis (UCL English Language & Literature) said if Thompson was pregnant at the time of her death "then she was unlawfully hanged," as it was illegal to execute a pregnant woman.