UCL in the media
Energy Crunch for Britain's Poor
Professor Paul Ekins (UCL Energy Institute) comments on how the Conservatives have changed their environmental stance. "[It's] changed out of all recognition. There's been a huge shift," he said.
Newsnight: Typhoon in the Philippines
Professor David Alexander (UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction) talks about the typhoon in the Philippines, and the importance of having a review into how the disaster was managed.
Why too much confidence can be a bad thing
Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic (UCL Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology) talks about why overconfidence, far from getting you ahead, can actually harm your career.
One-stop breast cancer treatment: Radiation breakthrough will help thousands
"We are hoping the publication of the trial results will lead directly to changes in NHS practice. Many women will be spared six weeks of treatment going back and forth to the radiotherapy centre," said Professor Michael Baum (UCL Research Department of General Surgery).
Minority report: Predicting where to put your policeman
"In about 2000, we started using techniques from epidemiology to see whether the risk of burglary spreads like disease," said Professor Shane Johnson (UCL Security & Crime Science). "And that's what we found: if a burglary occurs at one location, very swiftly others nearby are more likely."
The Tudors: Italian versions of English royals, done almost perfectly by the Welsh National Opera
After seeing Schiller's play Maria Stuart, Donizetti created a new Tudor opera in which a central feature would be the meeting between Anne's daughter Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots. Such a meeting never took place but it makes for riveting drama, says Professor Mark Ronan (UCL Mathematics).
Swiss scientists say Arafat was poisoned with polonium
Professor Derek Hill (UCL Medical Physics & Bioengineering) said if there was enough polonium left in the Arafat samples, it might be possible to trace where the element came from, providing more clues about whether Arafat was poisoned.
Funding cuts fear as cycling mileage is forecast to drop
Professor Phil Goodwin (UCL Transport Studies) has questioned whether the Government's model for future cycle use was fit for purpose. "It is not just that they got the numbers wrong, they got the direction of change wrong, which seems to me to be a much bigger problem. If it says it is going down when it is going up, there is something seriously wrong with the model," he said.
Is there an 'angst canon' of books that teenagers read?
Professors Lisa Jardine (UCL Centre for Editing Lives & Letters) and John Sutherland (UCL English Language & Literature) comment on the books, such as The Outsider by Albert Camus, which generations of disaffected teenagers have turned to as a rite of passage.
Volcanic obsidian lava flows for a year
Professor Peter Sammonds (UCL Earth Sciences) said the imaging techniques the team had developed would be "powerful" for the future study of volcanoes.