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Professor Jacqueline McGlade (UCL Institute for Global Prosperity) explains why penguins have black and white feathers to camouflage when they’re swimming.
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Starmer is too soft on business, says top economist
Labour has adopted Professor Mariana Mazzucato's (UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose) idea of state-led ‘missions’ for the economy but she believes bosses should not get taxpayer support without something in return.
Is Biden’s re-election bid rapidly approaching its end?
Senior Democrat leaders are accustomed to strong-arming their subordinates into compliance, but Joe Biden is not someone who can be easily bossed around and clearly feels he's earned the right to the nomination, says Dr Thomas Gift (UCL Political Science).
Outcry over severity of Just Stop Oil sentences
“The judge’s characterisation of climate breakdown as a matter of opinion and belief is completely nonsensical and demonstrates extraordinary ignorance," says Professor Bill McGuire (UCL Earth Sciences) on the sentencing of five Just Stop Oil activists this week.
How CrowdStrike caused massive Microsoft outage
"What's happened here, almost certainly, is not malicious, it's a series of unfortunate accidents," says Professor Steven Murdoch (UCL Computer Science) on the major global IT outage today.
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Rugby player concussions increase blood changes linked to motor neurone disease
On a study that suggests rugby players who suffer multiple concussions have biological differences to make them more prone to developing MND, Dr Amanda Heslegrave (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) says she would want to see a much bigger study before drawing conclusions.
JD Vance VP pick represents confidence in the Trump camp
"Vance may help secure the swing state of Ohio, but Trump already won there in both 2016 and 2020. This is largely Trump doubling down on his MAGA, populist nationalism," says Dr Thomas Gift (UCL Political Science).
Saving the world: UCL’s must-see festival celebrates engineers
UCL's Festival of Engineering shows how ground-breaking technologies are used to address real-world problems. Co-organiser Professor Clare Elwell (UCL Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering) says she wants people to see that engineering is "fundamentally collaborative".
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How can we reduce the temperature of politics?
There is a degree of political violence that is random and difficult to stop, explains Dr Brian Klaas (UCL European & International Social & Political Studies), but you can also have politicians who ramp up the risk, and the US is currently in a moment of "unprecedented" risk.
Substantial rise in adults vaping for longer than six months in England
The number of adults in England who report vaping for more than six months has increased substantially from around one in 80 in 2013 to one in 10 in 2023, according to a new study led by Dr Sarah Jackson (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care).
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