The London Institute is committed to a new way to fund and organize research, and the press is taking note. As well as the Institute as a whole, the media has publicized many of our research papers, making our scientific insights available to a broader audience.
THE SPECTATOR
In an interview with Thomas Fink, Sir Roger Penrose talks about his Nobel Prize, the beauty of physics—and why AI is nothing to fear.
THE GUARDIAN
From Newton to Penrose, Britain has always excelled at theoretical science — so why doesn't the government do more to support it?
FORBES
Forbes explains how the London Institute, working with the biologists at Bit.Bio, may revolutionise our understanding of human life.
the times
The Times welcomes the collaboration between London Institute mathematicians and the biologists at Bit.Bio to crack cell reprogramming.
Verdict
Verdict reports on the collaboration between the London Institute and cell coding company Bit.Bio to decode the operating system of life.
The Spectator
The London Institute talks about the power and importance of curiosity-driven science — and the role of storytelling in communicating it.
THE SPECTATOR
In The Spectator, the London Institute talks about the value of basic science and what the British government should do to promote it.
Science|Business
In today’s Science|Business, the London Institute welcomes the prospect of a UK DARPA and calls for shorter turn-around times for funding.
Open Access Government
In Open Access Government, the London Institute argues that Britain’s record of scientific leadership will continue regardless of Brexit.
Times Higher Education
In the Times Higher Education magazine, the London Institute contends that “We need to challenge the university monopoly on research”.
High Life
British Airways’ inflight magazine runs a three-page profile of the London Institute, its founder and its new approach to doing science.
Our research in the press
Reconstructing grain-shape statistics from electron back-scatter diffraction microscopy
Physical Review Materials 2, 73804 (2018)
How much can we influence the rate of innovation?
Science Advances 5, 1 (2019)
Serendipity and strategy in rapid innovation
Nature Communications 8, 2002 (2017)
Debunking in a world of tribes
PLOS ONE 10, 1371 (2017)
A new metric for countries’ fitness and products’ complexity
Scientific Reports 2, 723 (2012)
How predictable is technological progress?
Research Policy 45, 647 (2016)
Pathways towards instability in financial networks
Nature Communications 8, 14416 (2017)
The effects of Twitter sentiment on stock price returns
PLoS ONE 1, 1 (2015)
The price of complexity in financial networks
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, 36 (2016)
Photonic Maxwell’s demon
Physical Review Letters 116, 50401 (2016)
Coupling news sentiment with web browsing data improves prediction of intra-day price dynamics
PLoS ONE 1, 1 (2016)
Web search queries can predict stock market volumes
PLoS ONE 1, 1 (2012)
The heterogeneous dynamics of economic complexity
PLOS ONE 10, 1371 (2015)
Easily repairable networks: reconnecting nodes after damage
Physical Review Letters 113, 138701 (2014)
Ultralight fractal structures from hollow tubes
Physical Review Letters 109, 204301 (2012)