UCL in the media
Parents 'less likely to invest in children's education if their school performs poorly'
Parents are more likely to invest time and money at home on educational resources if their child attends a higher performing school, according to a new study by Dr Teodora Boneva (UCL Economics).
Read: Evening Standard, More: UCL NewsYiddish: A maven's quest to reclaim the mamaloshen
Dr Helen Beer (Hebrew & Jewish Studies) talks about Yiddish literature and rescuing the language from comic curses.
Read: Jewish ChronicleThe great academy schools scandal
Professor Becky Francis (Director, UCL Institute of Education) comments that Labour's academies programme was "focused on the revitalisation of schooling as an engine of social mobility in deprived areas" whereas DfE evidence shows "hardly any difference in outcomes" between academies and local authority schools.
Read: ObserverGay men taking daily anti-HIV pills are sexually non-infectious, says major study
Men on effective HIV treatment, where the virus is reduced to undetectable levels, are sexually non-infectious, finds an 8-year study led by Dr Alison Rodger (UCL Global Health) and Professor Jens Lundgren (UCL Global Health).
Read: Evening Standard, More: ABC News, Yahoo, Daily Mail, Times (£), UCL News'Amazing dragon' fossils rewrite history of long-necked dinosaurs
Professor Paul Upchurch (UCL Earth Sciences) has discovered a new dinosaur that lived 174 million years ago which suggests that neosauropods diversified much earlier than previously thought and spread across the globe before Pangaea began to break up.
Read: National Geographic, More: Metro, Reuters UK, Express, New York Post, China Daily, Fox News, New York Times, UCL NewsPainkiller used for dementia ''could make symptoms worse''
Dr Liz Sampson (UCL Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department) comments on a study finding that a painkiller commonly used in dementia treatment could make symptoms worse as it was linked to an increase in problematic side-effects such as confusion.
Read: Guardian'Capacity to innovate matters far more than panic over spending'
Visiting Professor Paul Ormerod (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences), suggests the debate over post-Brexit Britain should focus on how to boost innovation, rather than panic over consumer spending levels.
Read: City AMTeenage boys to get the HPV jab to protect against cancer
Professor Helen Bedford (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) welcomes the news that teenage boys aged 12 to 13 will be given a jab that protects against the HPV virus.
Read: SunBlood moon 2018 in London: causes, best spots and apocalypse theories
Dr Francisco Diego (UCL Physics & Astronomy) reveals London's top places to see Friday's "blood moon" eclipse. Set to be one of the longest total lunar eclipses of the century, it will feature a red tinge on the fully eclipsed moon.
Read: Evening StandardThinner retinas are early sign of cognitive decline
A landmark study led by Professor Paul Foster (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) has shown thinner retinas in the human eye are a clear sign a person is at significant and increased risk of future mental decline. The UCL team worked with researchers from Moorfields Eye Hospital.
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