UCL in the media
Learning from King Lear: the saving grace of low status
A study led by Dr Ana Guinote (UCL Experimental Psychology) has found that people are less likely to help others when they feel they are powerful and are more altruistic when they feel they are of low status.
Read: Wall Street JournalCharlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe
Professor John Martin (UCL Metabolism & Experimental Therapeutics) takes a satirical look at what medicine is.
Watch: BBC Two 'Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe' (from 25 mins 25 secs)Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe
Professor Iain Borden (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture) takes a satirical look at what is meant by architecture.
Watch: BBC Two 'Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe' (from 26 mins 12 secs)Looking on bright side helps recovery from heart attacks
A study led by Professor Andrew Steptoe (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health), in collaboration with the British Heart Foundation, has found that optimists are twice as likely as pessimists to recover well from heart attacks.
Read: Times (£), More: Daily Express, Daily Mail, IndependentScientists create self-cleaning paint
A team of UCL led researchers, including Yao Lu, Professor Claire Carmalt and Professor Ivan Parkin (all UCL Chemistry), have developed a new paint that makes robust self-cleaning surfaces.
Read: Telegraph, More: Independent, Daily Mail, Huffington Post, Washington Post, Reuters, Times of India, The Engineer, UCL News, Listen: BBC World Service 'Science in Action' (from 7 mins 22 secs), More: BBC 5 live '5 live Science' (from 22 mins 5 secs), BBC World Service 'The Science Hour' (from 14 mins 18 secs)Gene therapy
Professor Samuel Janes (UCL Internal Medicine) discusses a UCL trial into gene therapy and metastatic lung cancer.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Today' (from 2 hours 45 mins)Same Anger, Different Ideologies: Radical Muslim and Neo-Nazi
Amy Thornton (UCL Security & Crime Science) explains the role former extremists can play in the argument against radical temptations.
Read: New York TimesClever girls lack confidence in science and maths
Commenting on the disparity between boys and girls science results in the PISA test, Professor Michael Reiss (UCL Institute of Education) says: "This is nothing to do with genetics. The explanation must be a cultural one".
Read: BBC News, More: The ConversationReaping from the core of the earth
Dr Jonathan Craig (UCL Earth Sciences) says the Puga hot spring area has the greatest geothermal energy potential on the Indian subcontinent.
Read: Financial ChronicleWhy a submerged island is the perfect spot for the world's biggest wind farm
Dr Xavier Lemaire (UCL Energy Institute) examines why the UK government is proposing to build the world's largest offshore wind farm on the Dogger Bank, off England's east coast.
Read: The Conversation