UCL in the media
The Heathrow problem - and how London mayoral candidates can handle it
In an op-ed piece, Professor David Metz (UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering) looks at how the London mayoral candidates will solve the London air capacity crisis.
Read: The ConversationNHS technology: saving the health service one byte at a time
Professor Harry Hemingway (UCL Institute of Health Informatics) explains the substantial benefits that could come from the collection and analysis of data by the NHS.
Read: GuardianHumanity and milk
Professor Mark Thomas (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) explains humanity's genetic history with milk.
Listen: BBC Radio 5 live '5 live Science' (from 25 mins 55 secs)Beagle 2: most detailed images yet of lost Mars lander revealed
The surface of Mars, including the location of Beagle-2, has been shown in unprecedented detail using a revolutionary image stacking and matching technique developed by Professor Jan-Peter Muller and Yu Tao (both UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory).
Read: Guardian, More: BBC News, Daily Mail, Motherboard, Mirror, Wired, Daily Express, ITV News, UCL News, Listen: BBC 5 Live '5 Live Breakfast' (from 56 mins 9 secs)What's wrong with milk from a cow?
Dr Anton Emmanuel (UCL Institute for Liver & Digestive Health) says that for many Britons milk phobia has little medical basis.
Read: Times (£)This mesmerising data viz shows all of the world's shipping routes
An interactive shipping map, developed by the UCL Energy Institute and digital journalism studio Kiln, charts the movements of the world's commercial shipping fleet over the course of 2012.
Read: City AMTolullah Oni: public health specialist with a global ambition
Dr Tolullah Oni, appointed as one of the first Next Einstein Fellows for Africa, talks about her 'transformative' intercalated medical degree at UCL which she hopes to emulate at the University of Cape Town.
Read: The LancetPsyche
Professor Patrick Haggard (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) explains whether there is any benefit in searching our brains for soulful activity.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'The Ideas That Make Us' (from 10 mins 38 secs)Scientists have been using a flawed method to diagnose pain
Patterns of brain activity thought to show pain responses have been called into question after research by Professor John Wood (UCL Medicine) and the University of Reading found such patterns in rare patients born without a sense of pain.
Read: Gizmodo, More: Scientific American, UCL NewsIB and BTEC 'overvalued' in Ucas tariff
Professor Francis Green (UCL Institute of Education) says the new tariff due to be introduced by UCAS is "disappointing", arguing that schools and universities needed good information to make admissions decisions and advise students on their options.
Read: THE (£)