UCL in the media
What are nerve agents and what do they do?
Professor Andrea Sella (UCL Chemistry) explains the toxicity of nerve agents following police reports that a nerve agent was used in an attempt to murder the Russian former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury.
Read: BBC News, More: Sky News, iNews, The Telegraph, Financial Times (£), Reuters.Scientists studying worms find how death spreads through the body
Professor David Gems and Dr Evgeniy Galimov (UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing) have found new discoveries about how death actually works by studying earthworms.
Read: The Independent, Daily Mail, More: UCL NewsUCL professors win the 2018 Brain Prize
The 2018 Brain Prize, the world's most valuable prize for brain research at €1m, has been awarded to Professor John Hardy (UCL Institute of Neurology) and Professor Bart De Strooper (UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL) for their groundbreaking research on the genetic and molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease.
Read: BBC News, More: The Telegraph, BBC Radio 4 'Today' (from 2 hrs 54 mins 17 secs), The Guardian, The Times, i News, Express, Evening Standard, New Scientist, Mail Online, UCL News'We are the people who are desperate beyond emotion': Lou Reed's lost poetry to be published
Professor John Mullan (UCL English Language & Literature) comments on Lou Reed's poetry in light of his songwriting.
Read: GuardianOver-reliance on screens can be 'damaging', psychologist warns
Dr Kiki Leutner (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) comments on a survey suggesting our dependence on screens affects behaviour within relationships, concentration levels and causes some people to lose touch with the real world.
Read: IndependentIs it wrong to be blunt about obesity?
Professor Nick Finer (UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science) argues that blaming people for being overweight ignores the role of the food environment around us and how easy it is to over-acquire calories and energy.
Read: BBC NewsUniversities match scientists and financiers to boost start-up success
UCL Technology Fund, a collaboration between venture capital firm Albion Capital and UCLB, the university's technology transfer arm, is profiled as a new model for facilitating spin-outs.
Read: Times (£)Acclaimed DJ creates sleep album designed to help Britons drift off
Dr Michelle O'Reilly (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) comments on the efficacy of a new sleep album.
Read: Daily MailCampaign against cancer vaccine puts lives at risk
Professor Helen Bedford (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) says scientific evidence shows no link between HPV vaccinations and health problems such as neurological conditions and paralysis.
Read: Times (£)British Socialism: The grand tour
Dr Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL History) discusses Tony Benn in the context of a conversation about British socialism in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'British Socialism: The Grand Tour' (from 48 mins)