UCL in the media
Rethinking economics with Professor Wendy Carlin
Professor Wendy Carlin (UCL Economics) explains a way of rethinking how the public is educated about economics.
Watch: Bloomberg Surveillance (from 1 min 8 secs)Consumers abusing negative online review sites hit business bottom lines
In an article about consumers using the threat of negative online reviews to blackmail restaurateurs, Dr Dimitrios Tsivrikos (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) explains that the rise in social media has empowered consumers, however, more needs to be done to tackle systematic abuse of online reviewing.
Read: BBC NewsWhat happens in the minutes and hours after a major terror attack?
Professor David Alexander (UCL Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction) says that things change fairly dramatically within a matter of seconds following an attack and he explains the response processes.
Read: ViceNASA to announce its first mission to fly directly into the Sun's atmosphere
Professor Lucie Green (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) discusses NASA's Solar Probe Plus and ESA's Solar Orbiter missions to 'sniff and taste' the environment around the Sun.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Today' (from 1 hour 45 mins), More: BBC World Service 'World Update'Britain debates nationalising its rail system
Dr Nicole Badstuber (UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering) says Britain is in a situation where private companies profit without providing a truly free marketplace.
Read: The Atlantic CityLabSilicon - the world's building block
Dr Andrew Pontzen (UCL Physics & Astronomy) explains how silicon is made in the final life stage of a star before being distributed across the universe where it plays a key role in building planets.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'In Their Element' (from 3 min 45 secs)Most of the body can be replaced by bioprinting, transplant or synthetic parts
Professor Mark Miodownik (UCL Mechanical Engineering) and Professor Barry Fuller (UCL Surgery & Interventional Science) are interviewed about advances enabling the replacement of human body parts by bioprinting, transplant or use of synthetic parts.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Print me a new body'Young people taking risky steps to get onto the property ladder
Dr Dimitrios Tsivrikos (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) comments on the desire to own a home.
Read: The TelegraphAdding tobacco to cannabis will not make you more stoned
A study led by Chandni Hindocha and Professor Val Curran (UCL Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit) found that adding tobacco to a cannabis joint doesn't improve the experience of being stoned, but it does reduce the memory impairment inherent to cannabis use.
Read: Daily Mail, More: Metro, UCL NewsHuman tests suggest young blood cuts cancer and Alzheimer's risk
Professor Arne Akbar (UCL Division of Infection & Immunity) and Professor David Gems (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) comment on results from a study by a company called Ambrosia, highlighting the need for further investigations into the placebo effect and more tests over time.
Read: New Scientist (£)