UCL in the media
How much can we learn from home DNA tests?
Professor Mark Thomas (UCL Biosciences) discusses the scientific limitations of the £7.7bn DNA test industry and explains how results can be skewed as companies are looking at recent samples from small groups.
Read: GuardianRise in corporate market power offers clues to feeble wage growth
Professor Jan Eeckhout (UCL Economics) comments on the factors behind persistently low wage growth in the US including how a few "superstar firms" can dominate market prices.
Read: FT (£)UCL alumni's mixers start-up goes from strength to strength
UCL alumni Raissa and Joyce de Hass (UCL School of Management) set up their mixers start-up 'Double Dutch' with the help of a £10,000 award from UCL Technology Fund.
Read: Daily TelegraphHow do our eyes experience colour?
Professor Andrew Stockman (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) explains the science behind colour-blindness, how our eyes actually experience colour and how easily they can be tricked.
Listen: BBC World Service 'CrowdScience' (from 9 mins, 30 secs)You See Less Than You Think
Professor Geraint Rees (UCL Life Sciences) breaks down brain signals to show how we are often under the impression of multitasking but we are actually hopping rapidly from one task to the next.
Read: Wall Street Journal (£)Left handers day: How many people are left handed and why are more people right handed?
Professor Chris McManus (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) explains that some people are left handed because their brains are "organised differently".
Read: Metro, Watch: BBC IdeasWorms help scientists unlock the key to ageing
Ageing in worms mainly results from the direct action of genes and not from random wear and tear or loss of function, and the same is likely to be true in humans, finds a study led by Professor David Gems (UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing).
Read: iNews, More: Daily Telegraph (£), Science Magazine, UCL NewsNavigation skills depend more on where you live than your gender
People in Nordic countries, North America, Australia, and New Zealand have the best spatial navigational abilities, according to a new study using the Sea Hero Quest mobile game, led by Dr Hugo Spiers (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) and researchers at the University of East Anglia.
Read: Daily Telegraph (£), More: Daily Mail, BBC News, BBC Radio 4 News (from 26 mins, 4 secs), BBC World Service 'The Newsroom' (from 6 mins, 35 secs), iNews, Times (£), Harper's Bazaar, New Zealand Herald, UCL NewsLatest subject rankings place UCL in top ten
In the latest data from the Complete University Guide, UCL has been recognised as one of the top ten places to study
architecture, biology, chemistry, English literature, and history.Solar probe will improve our understanding of the sun
Professor Andrew Coates (UCL Space & Climate Physics) comments on thermodynamic mysteries which the US's Parker Solar Probe may help to explain. The probe will fly through the corona, a shell of hot plasma surrounding the sun.
Read: Economist (£)