UCL in the media
What would happen if we banned work emails at the weekend?
With more of us are checking emails outside working hours, Professor Anna Cox (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) stresses the need to switch-off from work and how not doing so can affect productivity and physical and mental health problems.
Read: BBC News"Private companies have been riding on the 'coat-tails' of government for too long"
Professor Mariana Mazzucato (UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose) argues that some of the world's largest and most successful companies, including Apple, Tesla and Amazon, are heavily reliant on public sector research.
Listen: BBC Radio 2 'Jeremy Vine' (from 1 hr, 10 mins)National cycling and walking targets expected to be missed
PhD researcher Nicole Badstuber (UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering) comments on statistics showing government cycling and walking targets will be missed, saying there was a pressing need to improve safety at junctions.
Read: FT (£)Almost 90% of fibromyalgia sufferers have difficulty sleeping
Professor Anisur Rahman (UCL Medicine) talks about the effects of fibromyalgia, which he says patients often describe as 'having brain fog'.
Read: Daily MailWhat happens when a tropical storm meets a volcano?
The meeting of tropical storms and volcanoes can cause 'big problems', warned Emeritus Professor Bill McGuire (UCL Earth Sciences), commenting on the effects of recent weather events around Indonesia.
Read: ExpressOver-65s needing 24-hour support to rise by a third
New research suggesting more than a million older people will require 24-hour care by 2035 means care provision will need 'careful thought and planning at both local and national level,' comments Professor Eric Brunner (UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care).
Read: ExpressAre classroom friendships all they seem?
An article on classroom friendships quotes Professor Peter Blatchford (UCL Institute of Education), who suggests we underestimate the importance of pupil interactions for the learning environment, 'and a child's overall success at school.'
Read: TES (£)British Heart Foundation to award £30-million grant - one of the largest single grants in medical research
Dr Amitava Banerjee (UCL Institute of Health Informatics) comments on the importance of the BHF grant, highlighting the need for global data outside London and Oxford and also to tap into the talents of younger scientists.
Read: NatureCERN's mini particle accelerator could finally smash apart electrons
Professor Matthew Wing (UCL Physics & Astronomy) and Dr Simon Jolly (UCL Physics & Astronomy) in the AWAKE collaboration at CERN have demonstrated a new way of accelerating electrons to high energies which could dramatically shrink the size of future particle accelerators and lower their costs.
Read: Nature, More: New Scientist, Gizmodo, Physics World, Science News, Futurism, Science Magazine, UCL NewsEnergy drinks ban for children
Dr Adrian Slee (UCL Medicine) explains how energy drinks affect the metabolism, and why the government plans to ban sales of these products to under-18s.
Read: Daily Mail