September 5, 2023 – The US continues to face stark inequalities in preterm birth and mortality rates between mothers of differing socioeconomic status and race, finds a new report led by UCL researchers. The study, published in JAMA Paediatrics, examined data from the US National Centre for Health Statistics Birth Infant/Death Dataset, of over 12 million preterm […]
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‘Deepfakes’ ranked as most serious AI crime threat
Aug. 4, 2020 – Fake audio or video content has been ranked by experts as the most worrying use of artificial intelligence in terms of its potential applications for crime or terrorism, according to a new UCL report. The study, published in Crime Science and funded by the Dawes Centre for Future Crime at UCL (and available […]
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Face of first Brit revealed: Blue eyes, dark-to-black skin and hair
Feb. 12, 2018 – The face of ‘Cheddar Man’, Britain’s oldest nearly complete skeleton at 10,000 years old, is revealed for the first time and with unprecedented accuracy by UCL and Natural History Museum researchers. The results indicate that Cheddar Man had blue eyes, dark coloured curly hair and ‘dark to black’ skin pigmentation. Previously, […]
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Cosmology safe as universe has no sense of direction
September 22, 2016 – The universe is expanding uniformly according to research led by UCL which reports that space isn’t stretching in a preferred direction or spinning. The new study, published today in Physical Review Letters, studied the cosmic microwave background (CMB) which is the remnant radiation from the Big Bang. It shows the universe […]