UCL in the media
Education Sec wants grammar schools for 'ordinary families'
Dr Alice Sullivan (UCL Institute of Education) comments on the government's grammar schools plan, stating they are "by definition selective" and will "never be the solution for average or below average kids". She argues the government should instead focus on getting good graduates into teaching and making sure it's a successful profession.
Watch: BBC NewsThe four factors that decide how we feel about income inequality
Professor Adrian Furnham (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) writes about the complexities of income inequality, and when it seems most unjust.
Read: The ConversationWeird science pushes back the boundaries
Professor Andrew Fisher and Professor Jonathan Butterworth (UCL Physics & Astronomy) comment on the development of a fluid with negative mass that works counter to Newton's second law of motion as it moves slower when pushed.
Read: The Times (£)LGBT London: what venue closures mean for the capital's future
An article about the closure of LGBTQI nightlife spaces in London includes quotes from a report on the issue by the UCL Urban Laboratory.
Read: The GuardianBrain's 'hand area' used by other body parts in people born with one hand
A study co-led by Dr Tamar Makin (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) found that the area of the brain used to control the hand gets used instead to support the lips, feet or arms of people who were born with only one hand.
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Terry Jones: `I've got dementia. My frontal lobe has absconded'
Professor Nick Fox (UCL Institute of Neurology) comments on the Monty Python actor's diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
Read: The ObserverAre police forces equipped for changing crime patterns after years of cuts?
Professor Gloria Laycock (UCL Security and Crime Science) is interviewed about the challenges facing the new Metropolitan police commissioner Cressida Dick.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Today' (from 2 hrs 55 mins)Umbilical cord blood could slow brain's ageing, study suggests
Professor Rob Howard (UCL Psychiatry) says that while a study using infusions of a protein found in umbilical cord blood is interesting, it may just add to the list of Alzheimer's studies that have proven successful in mice but not in humans.
Read: The GuardianMastercard launches card that replaces PIN with fingerprint sensor
Dr Steven Murdoch (UCL Computer Science) expects the trial will aim to answer how reliable the technology is and how physically robust the new cards are.
Read: The RegisterOcean on Saturn's icy moon has hot vents suitable for life
Professor Andrew Coates (UCL Space & Climate Physics) talks about the last voyage of the Cassini spacecraft and recent evidence of 'the building blocks for basic life' on one of Saturn's moons.
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