UCL in the media
Botox for your bladder… and other incontinence treatments that work
Professor James Malone-Lee (UCL Nephrology) says many regular remedies are worse than useless, warns a leading specialist.
Read: SpectatorAtmosphere analysed on distant 'super-Earth'
UCL researchers have successfully detected gases in the atmosphere of a super-Earth for the first time, revealing the presence of hydrogen and helium, but no water vapour.
Read: BBC News, More: Daily Mail, Mirror, TIME, Washington Post, Wired, Discovery, UCL NewsInvasive species blamed as second biggest cause of extinctions
A study by Professor Tim Blackburn (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) has found that invasive species are the second biggest cause of species extinctions.
Read: New ScientistWhy Liverpool FC scrapped its ticket price hike - and it's nothing to do with "fairness"
Dr Paul Ormerod (UCL Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology) explains the economical reasoning behind the owners of Liverpool FC's decision to withdraw a proposed ticket price increase and announce a two-year price freeze.
Read: City AME-cigarettes
Professor Robert West (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) debates the issues surrounding the UK's first licensed e-cig.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Inside Health' (from 3 mins 8 secs)How shift to computer-based tests could shake up PISA education rankings
John Jerrim (UCL Institute of Education) explains how some countries experienced big changes when the global test of 15-year-olds moved from paper to online.
Read: The ConversationPineapple: A Global History
Dr Kaori O'Connor (UCL Anthropology) discusses her book, Pineapple: A Global History, which follows the pineapple across time and cultures.
Listen: BBC Radio 2 'Simon Mayo' (from 17 mins)Focus on mental health
Dr Michael Bloomfield (UCL Psychiatry) comments on a report which has found that around three-quarters of people with mental health problems received no help at all.
Listen: BBC 5 live '5 live Drive' (from 1 hour 40 mins)Pleasure: why we like the things we like
Professor Semir Zeki (UCL Cell & Developmental Biology) explains how the brain reacts to something we consider beautiful.
Listen: BBC World Service 'The Why Factor' (from 3 mins 40 secs)Gravitational waves
Professor Andrew Coates (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) explains what the discovery of gravitational waves actually means.
Listen: BBC Radio Surrey 'Breakfast' (from 2 hours 49 mins)