UCL in the media
We are an obese, sedentary, pill-popping nation, NHS figures reveal
Professor Jenny Mindell (UCL Epidemiology & Health) has contributed to research analysing health trends in England.
Read: iNewsOwning a pet isn't the secret to staying young, say scientists
Research led by UCL Epidemiology & Public Health has shown owning a pet does not appear to slow the rate of ageing.
Read: TelegraphMeet the twins who are spicing up your cocktail mixers
Joyce and Raissa de Haas, alumnae of UCL School of Management, discuss their successful mixer startup, which started life as a dissertation at UCL.
Read: Evening StandardThe language of life
Professor Sophie Scott (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) will deliver this year's Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and discuss how we communicate.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Woman's Hour' (from 19 mins 40 secs); More: BuzzfeedThe cross-subsidy of research by teaching is a myth
Professor Peter Coveney (UCL Chemistry) says the mantra that research is loss-making is a fiction.
Read: THEThe part of my dad that dementia can't take
UCL neuroscientists led by Professor Jason Warren (UCL Institute of Neurology) use music to understand how Alzheimer's affects the brain.
Read: BBC FutureNew lease of life for life drawing classes?
Short courses at the Slade School of Fine Art are part of a roundup focused on the increasing popularity of life drawing classes.
Read: Art NewspaperGideon Rubin blacks out Hitler's Mein Kampf for Freud Museum exhibition
Gideon Rubin, an alumnus of the Slade School of Fine Art, has a new exhibition titled 'Black Book' at the Freud Museum, part of a critically acclaimed series curated by James Putnam.
Read: ArtlystAs the cartels grow deadlier, should the Mexican military be involved in law enforcement?
Patricio Estévez-Soto and David Perez Esparza (UCL Security & Crime Science) write about the regulation of military law enforcement in Mexico.
Read: The ConversationA family in Italy doesn't feel pain because of a gene mutation
Dr James Cox (UCL Medicine) identified a gene mutation that causes an Italian family to be barely able to sense pain.
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