UCL in the media
The New Power of Memory
Researchers from University College London and Harvard University have made strides charting how memory helps us draw a mental sketch of someone's personality and imagine how that person might behave in a future social situation.
How your hearing aid could stop you getting dementia
People losing their hearing may start to withdraw from many of the activities they used to enjoy, because certain scenarios might be embarrassing or difficult, writes Professor David McAlpine (UCL Ear Institute).
Vaccine hope for Tasmanian devil tumour disease
Professor Robin Weiss (UCL Division of Infection and Immunity) comments on new research that could help develop a vaccine to prevent healthy Tasmanian devils catching cancer.
Stonehenge may have been burial site for Stone Age elite
"It's in building the thing that's important. It's not that they're coming to worship, they're coming to construct it," said Professor Michael Parker Pearson (UCL Institute of Archaeology).
IERA event at »Ê¼Ò»ªÈË on 9 March
UCL has launched an investigation after an Islamic group hosted a debate on its premises with plans to segregate seating by gender.
BBC4 switches Danish crime drama for Swedish
"Nordic crime drama is at heart just a way of telling stories about everyday problems and challenges in an exhilarating way by the use of the crime plot," says Dr Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen (UCL Scandinavian Studies).
Stop the rot! Why thousands of British children are having their teeth taken out in hospital
"Thousands of children a year [are] having teeth taken out under a general anaesthetic. It's appalling in the sense that it's an entirely preventable disease," said Dr Paul Batchelor (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health).
Age-related Macular Degeneration
Professor Pete Coffey (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) is interviewed about his research into macular degeneration.
Birth of a new particle
From the switch-on of CERN's Large Hadron Collider through rumours, hints, discovery and now increasingly precise measurements, Professor Jon Butterworth (UCL Physics & Astronomy) discusses the Higgs boson so far.
Lingua Latina mortua est, vivat lingua Latina!
UCL Centre for Languages and International Education comments on Latin as a native language: "It could be argued that the native Latin tongue lasted for ever, inasmuch as modern Romance languages are the contemporary stages of an uninterrupted native usage of Latin."