UCL in the media
Festival of the Planets brings European Planetary Science Congress wonder to London
From the Natural History Museum and the Royal Society to the British Interplanetary Society and the humble Baker Street Irregular Astronomers, the University College London-led Festival of the Planets has brought a diverse group of sky enthusiasts together.
Read: Culture 24GlobAlbedo Project Mapping Changes In Earth's Reflectivity
"GlobAlbedo is the first gap-free, 1 km-resolution map of Earth's land surface with an uncertainty estimate for every pixel. This could only have been produced from satellite data," said UCL Professor Jan-Peter Muller, leader of the GlobAlbedo project.
Read: Red OrbitSnap decisions sometimes the best
University College London found making subconscious snap decisions is more reliable in certain situations than using rational thought processes.
Read: BBC NewsSocial science Academicians announced
Among the 51 academics given the title are Sir Peter Hall, professor of urban regeneration and planning at University College London, a town planning and regeneration pioneer.
Read: Times Higher EducationNew £1m skatepark to replace Southbank's undercroft? Not interested, say protesters
Prof Iain Borden said he could understand their refusal as he agreed the existing site was best. But he said the Southbank had done more than any developer he had known to provide an alternative for skaters as well as BMX-ers and graffiti writers.
Read: Standard More: GuardianUK online marketplace for 'pop-up' shops draws investors
Arts Alliance, the venture capital group that backed lastminute.com, has put up £420,000 investment alongside UCL Advances, the venture capital arm of University College London.
Read: FTHuge Martian Panorama On Show At UCL
An incredible photographic panorama of the surface of Mars has just been installed at UCL. The mural is 40 metres long and 3 metres tall, and depicts a 10 mile sweep of the red planet's surface.
Read: LondonistBBC is dumbing down science
Professor Lisa Jardine (UCL Centre for Editing Lives & Letters) argues that BBC programme makers steeped in the humanities underestimate their audiences' understanding of science.
Read: Daily Mail TelegraphGenetics plays key role in shaping outlook
A person's disposition toward happiness or misery is genetic, according to work by UCL, Harvard and the universities of California, San Diego and Zurich.
Read: China DailyHiggs boson: at a crossroads
Professor Jon Butterworth (UCL Physics & Astronomy) says that there are still more exciting discoveries to come following discovery of the Higgs.
Read: New Scientist (£)