UCL in the media
Noise during operations found to be causing doctors communication problems
An analysis of video footage by researchers from Imperial College London and Dr Terhi Korkiakangas (UCL Institute of Education) shows that some operating theatre teams are negatively affected by background music during surgery.
Read: Daily Mail, More: Telegraph, Guardian, Financial Times, Mirror, Listen: BBC Radio 5 live 'Morning Reports' (from 4 mins 38 secs)Titanium materials
Professor Andrea Sella (UCL Chemistry) explains why titanium is so difficult to extract from its ore.
Listen: BBC World Service 'Business Daily' (from 2 mins 4 secs)Constitutional upheaval
Professor Robert Hazell (UCL Constitution Unit) reflects on the achievements of the UCL Constitution Unit following its 20th anniversary.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Westminster Hour'Infections that wreck summer for millions of women
Dr Jenny Rohn and Professor James Malone-Lee (both UCL Clinical Physiology) comment on the rise in UTIs during the summer season.
Read: Daily MailChasing stardust
Professor Stephen Price (UCL Chemistry) has been using a number of surface analysis techniques, including reflection absorption IR spectroscopy and temperature programmed desorption, to probe interstellar ices.
Read: Chemistry WorldCan we reverse the ageing process by putting young blood into older people?
Commenting on a series of experiments which gave young blood to old mice, Professor John Hardy (UCL Molecular Neuroscience) said that there is a possibility that young plasma will be less effective in people than in mice.
Read: GuardianA year after massacre by Islamic State, Iraq's Yazidis are clinging on
Dr Tyler Fisher (UCL SELCS) examines how assaults by Islamic State have affected the Yazidi community in northern Iraq.
Read: The ConversationFour legs too many?
Professor Susan Evans (UCL Cell & Developmental Biology) explains what can be learnt from the discovery of Tetrapodophis, a 113 million-year-old fossil of a snake which has four legs with fingers and toes.
Read: Science (£)Leading academic answers the most common anti-immigration claims
Professor John Salt (UCL Geography) responds to some of the most common assertions about immigration to the UK.
Read: IndependentRecovery of UK economy is the slowest since records began
Professor Stephen Machin (UCL Economics) says that productivity growth in recent years has been "anaemic".
Read: Independent