Why is Anxiety in Youth Increasing Faster than Ever? Anxiety rates in young adults are increasing rapidly all over the world. Researchers and clinicians are attempting to decipher the cause. UCL Science Magazine • Beyond
The Illusion of Ancestry: What Your DNA Test Isn’t Telling You DNA ancestry tests compare your DNA to reference populations(not exact ancestry) so results vary by company and over time. Despite this, they feel compelling. Experts like Kostas Kampourakis and Adam Rutherford stress their limits but highlight value in finding relatives. UCL Science Magazine • Biology
Will ‘magic mushrooms’ be the future antidepressant? By Natalie Christovic Psychedelics, including psilocybin, are making a ‘come-back’ in psychiatry as potential tools to tackle depression. On a bright spring’s day in March 2022, Sarah went on a trip to Lake Bled, Slovenia. She walked along a path seemingly engrained in diamonds, gazed upon perfectly symmetrical clouds, UCL Science Magazine • Biology
From Coding to Commanding: How AI Is Rewriting the Developer’s Role How a shift from writing code to directing AI agents is redefining one of the most in-demand skills of the digital age. UCL Science Magazine • Technology
From Twitching Frogs to Contaminated Rivers - The Story of the Lithium-Ion Battery By Ana Kerridge In 1781, biophysicist Luigi Galvani accidentally discovered that a frog’s leg would twitch when simultaneously touched by a steel scalpel and brass hook. The mechanism found to be responsible for this led his rival, physicist Alessandro Volta to invent the world’s first electrochemical cell (Veritasium, UCL Science Magazine • Physics
What Your DNA Can’t Tell You Teaching genetics as a complex interaction between many genes and environmental factors can reduce students’ belief that human differences are biologically fixed, according to a new study of more than 2,000 US undergraduates. UCL Science Magazine • Biology
