UCL in the media
Women more likely to believe in God and the afterlife
A study by UCL Institute of Education shows that Women are more likely to believe in God and in life after death than men.
Read: Daily Mail, More: Independent, BBC NewsIt takes just a minute to test the brain
A research team, led by Dr Joseph Devlin (UCL Experimental Psychology), are asking volunteers to play the BBC Radio 4 panel show Just a Minute while lying inside an MRI scanner to see if those who have the ability to speak on the spot use a different part of their brain.
Read: Times (£), More: Daily Mail, Listen: BBC Radio Wales 'Breakfast' (from 54 mins 55 secs)How green is my university?
UCL has been ranked 29th in this year's People & Planet Green League, up 39 places from last year and the third highest Russell Group University.
Read: GuardianFitness 'rubs off on your partner'
A study co-authored by Professor Jane Wardle and Dr Sarah Jackson (both UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) has found that couples are more likely to give up smoking, visit the gym, or lose weight if they get healthy together.
Read: BBC News, More: Daily Mail, Telegraph, Evening Standard, Herald, CNN, Globe & Mail, Washington PostMan v milk
Professor Mark Thomas (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) helps to explain how the ability to drink milk forged the course of human evolution.
Listen: BBC World Service Radio 'The Food Chain' (from 5 mins 56 secs)Genetic screening tests
Professor Joyce Harper (UCL Reproductive Medicine) talks through the results of her 23andMe genetic screening test and questions whether such tests will be of use to the general public.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'PM' (from 23 mins 12 secs)London boundary
Professor Michael Batty (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) says that moving the London boundary to include Dartford, and other areas in Kent, would not solve the housing or transport problems in London.
Listen: BBC Radio Kent 'Breakfast' (from 1 hour 10 mins)Are lost languages coming back?
Chris Moseley (UCL SSEES) says that it is important to stop smaller languages being engulfed by bigger ones and that each language represents a different world of thought.
Read: BBC NewsAfter five years and £10 million, it's time to publish Chilcot
Commenting on the Chilcot Inquiry, Professor Philippe Sands (UCL Laws) says "it is hard to avoid the suspicion that party political considerations might be involved in the delay".
Read: Courier, More: GuardianThree get-fit rip-offs that can lose dieters hundreds of pounds
Dr Dimitrios Tsivrikos (UCL Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology) says: "Shops will try and dictate which products are healthy for you - and they may seem healthier than they actually are".
Read: Telegraph