UCL in the media
The 12 most important moments in science in 2014
Professor Sophie Scott, Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (both UCL Cognitive Neuroscience), Dr Helen Czerski and Professor Mark Miodownik (both UCL Mechanical Engineering) pick their key scientific moments of the year - including Professor John O'Keefe (UCL Cell & Developmental Biology) being awarded the Nobel Prize.
Read: GuardianHow much gin makes a party fizz?
As part of the Times' Christmas science experiment series, Ravi Das (UCL Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology) investigates the impact of alcohol on verbal fluency.
Read: TimesStem cell scandal scientist Haruko Obokata resigns
Professor Chris Mason (UCL Biochemical Engineering) comments on the resignation of Dr Haruko Obokata, a Japanese stem cell scientist at the heart of a scandal over false claims and fabricated research.
Read: BBC NewsOh, pardon; those gassy burps may signal life on Mars
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock (UCL Physics & Astronomy) explains what may cause the spikes of methane detected in Mars' atmosphere.
Read: TimesResearchers read and write brain activity with light
A team led by Dr Adam Packer (UCL Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research) has developed a new way of simultaneously recording and manipulating the activity of multiple cells in the brains of live animals using pulses of light.
Read: Guardian, More: UCL NewsBrain's 'internal compass' found
A study led by Dr Hugo Spiers and Dr Martin Chadwick (UCL Experimental Psychology) has pinpointed the precise part of the brain that gives people a sense of direction.
Read: BBC News, More: Independent, Daily Mail, Times (£), Metro, Shropshire Star, Times of India, UCL News, Listen: BBC Radio Scotland 'Newsdrive' (from 51 mins), More: BBC Radio Wales 'Good Evening Wales' (from 1 hour 47 mins)Anti-psychotic drugs given for wrong illnesses
Research by Professor David Osborn (UCL Psychiatry) has found that more than half of prescriptions for anti-psychotic drugs in Britain are for conditions other than serious mental illnesses.
Read: Daily MailLosing your teeth could be a sign of wider mental and physical decline
A study led by Dr Georgios Tsakos (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) has found that tooth loss could be an indicator of wider physical and mental decline in older people.
Read: IndependentDiplomatic thaw with the US is a gift to the Cuban economy
Dr Emily Morris (UCL Institute of the Americas) explains how the restoration of full diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba will change Cuba's economy.
Read: The ConversationUCL breaks Oxbridge stranglehold on university research
Results from the Research Excellence Framework (REF) show UCL has overtaken Cambridge in the league table for research quality ranked by research power rating, placing it 2nd in the UK.
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