UCL in the media
Leeds children's heart unit future in jeopardy
Leeds is a statistical outlier with a mortality rate outside the expected and acceptable range. Experts believe that even when the other data is submitted, the unit's performance is unlikely to improve. The data has for the first time been risk-adjusted using new software devised by University College London.
Read: GuardianProper policing works
The work of two researchers from the Institute for Fiscal Studies and University College London shows that in Lambeth between 2001 and 2002, the number of people being admitted to hospital because of hard drugs doubled.
Read: TelegraphEconomic Hard Times Increase Immigration Tensions in Europe
"It's not sustainable given the knock-on effect on land use, housing pressure, water availability, energy consumption, energy production for that matter," said Professor John Salt (UCL Geography).
Read: Voice of AmericaDoes dark humour help?
"Writers are real tough nuts sometimes facing the awful end to it," says Professor John Sutherland (UCL English Language & Literature).
Listen: BBC Radio 4's Today (from 2 hours 56 mins)The problem with Bitcoin
"Bitcoin is the Napster of payments - the flawed writing on the wall for banking as we know it," says Chris Cook (UCL Institute for Security & Resilience Studies).
Read: FT More: Left Foot Forward BBCSpace experts find dark matter clues
"Dark matter is very elusive, because it doesn't interact with light," says Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock (UCL Physics & Astronomy).
Listen: BBC Radio 4's Today (from 1 hour 22 mins)Obama invests in brain research
Professor John Hardy (UCL Institute of Neurology) comments on President Obama's $100 million BRAIN project to push forward our understanding of the brain.
Listen: BBC Radio 4's Material World (from 14 mins)Lung cancer hits non-smokers
"Lung cancer causes 25%, so a quarter, of all cancer deaths. Lung cancer actually receives about 5% of research funding," said Dr Sam Jones (UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering).
Watch: BBC One's The One Show (from 5 mins)Animation offers clues to the bystander effect
Dr David Swapp (UCL Computer Science) comments on his research building an interactive animation used to study the 'bystander effect'.
Watch: BBC News London (from 20 mins) BBC Breakfast (no link) Listen: BBC Radio London's Breakfast Show (from 2 hours, 12 mins)Faith in Suburbia
"Religion is often neglected in the history of suburban change," said Dr Claire Dwyer (UCL Geography).
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