UCL in the media
Explainer: how does an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider work?
Dr Gavin Hesketh (UCL Physics & Astronomy) gives a timeline account of the Large Hadron Collider restart.
Read: The ConversationHobbit first edition with JRR Tolkien's inscription doubles sales record
Professor Susan Irvine (UCL English Language & Literature) translates an Old English inscription by JRR Tolkien in a first edition copy of the Hobbit.
Read: GuardianE-cigarettes: The debate gets cloudier
Professor Robert West (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) says that the Welsh government has been misled by the "barrage of anti e-cigarette propaganda coming from public health activists with little knowledge or understanding of the evidence".
Read: BBC NewsBlood test for Down's syndrome may save babies
A new study, led by Professor Lyn Chitty (UCL Institute of Child Health), has shown that non-invasive prenatal testing for Down's syndrome is effective as an amniocentesis.
Read: Telegraph, More: Independent, Times (£)How 1970s deodorant is still doing harm
Professor Andrea Sella (UCL Chemistry) explains the risks of fluorine, describing it as the "tyrannosaurus rex of the periodic table".
Read: BBC NewsSchool experiment debunks Gwyneth's manuka honey myths
Lab_13, a project which Professor Andrea Sella (UCL Chemistry) helped establish and is designed to help introduce scientific thinking to the classroom at a younger age, has conducted the country's first proper randomised controlled trial of manuka honey.
Read: Times (£)Humanity won when men found their feminine side
Commenting on a paper on the "feminisation" of early man, Professor Mark Maslin (UCL Geography) said it "offered a convincing explanation of mankind's sudden cultural growth spurt".
Read: Times (£), The ConversationNewly discovered vessels beneath skull could link brain and immune system
Professor Nick Fox (UCL Neurodegenerative Diseases) said the possibility of links between immune disease and Alzheimer's is rapidly beoming a "hot topic and quite contentious".
Read: GuardianDesert Island Discs: Professor Lisa Jardine
Professor Lisa Jardine (UCL Centre for Editing Lives & Letters) is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Desert Island Disks'Origins of life
Dr Matt Powner (UCL Chemistry) explains how researchers try to answer the fundamental question of how life began.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Inside Science' (from 8 mins 26 secs)