UCL in the media
Summer-born children can delay school entry by a year
Professor Lorraine Dearden (UCL Institute of Education) discusses plans to allow summer born children to delay school entry by a year.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Today' (from 2 hours 34 mins)Stone Age porridge
Dr Matthew Pope (UCL Archaeology) comments on new research which suggests that hunter gatherers ate oats as far back as 32,000 years ago.
Listen: BBC Radio Scotland 'Newsdrive' (from 56 mins 41 secs)The new cure for liver disease
A team from UCL and the Royal Free Hospital, led by Professor Rajiv Jalan (UCL Liver & Digestive Health), have invented a charcoal-like substance that soaks up deadly toxins that are released in liver disease.
Read: Daily Mail'Weekend effect' blamed for 11,000 extra deaths in hospital each year
A collaborative analysis by UCL and University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trusts has found that patients admitted to hospital at the weekend are more likely to be sicker and have a higher risk of death, compared with those admitted during the week.
Read: Telegraph, More: Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Mirror, Sky News, BMJ, UCL NewsWhy being good-looking makes you funnier
Speaking at this year's British Science Festival, Professor Sophie Scott (UCL Cognitive Neuroscience) said that the amount a couple laughs is not based upon the quality of humour, but rather how much they fancy each other.
Read: Telegraph, More: Daily Mail, Telegraph (2), The WeekRight of self-defence central to legal debate over Syria drone strike
Following a UK drone strike on the Syrian city of Raqqa, Professor Philippe Sands (UCL Laws) examines David Cameron's justification of the strike.
Read: Guardian, More: Daily Mail, The Week, Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Today' (from 1 hour 13 mins), Watch: BBC Two 'Victoria Derbyshire' (from 4 mins 49 secs)Glow in the dark eye drops to save your sight
A collaborative study led by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, in collaboration with UCL and the Wellcome Trust, is working to develop a new test that could detect glaucoma ten years before symptoms appear.
Read: Daily MailThe golden rules the health experts stick to in their own lives
Professor David McAlpine (UCL Ear Institute) explains why he tries to minimise prolonged exposure to loud noise where possible.
Read: Daily MailParents of summer-born children get right to delay start of school
Tammy Campbell (UCL Institute of Education) says she welcomes moves to address the disadvantages of younger children but added that "flexibility in starting age will not completely solve the problem".
Read: Guardian, More: Daily Mail, The ConversationWill software that writes code alter tech's script?
A team of computer scientists at UCL, including Dr Guillaume Bouchard (UCL Computer Science), are working on developing software that can write code.
Read: Financial Times