UCL in the media
Call to test children for the ovarian cancer gene
Dr Sue Gessler (UCL Institute for Women's Health) says early genetic testing would help women to "live with the uncertainty" of getting the disease.
Read: The Times (£)Majority of pupils forced to resit at flagship academy
A flagship academy hailed as "the future of education" by Labour peer Lord Adonis has launched an internal review after the "majority of students" were forced into exam resits.
Read: TelegraphFashion 'too scared to innovate with tech', says ex Topshop marketing chief
UCL spin-out, Chirp, has partnered with Topshop during London Fashion Week to inspire the fashion world through the power of digital birdsong.
Read: GuardianTomorrow's cities: Sensor networks for the elderly
"Smart homes are not about internet-connected fridges, who wants that? But if sensors could tell me when my dad opened a fridge, I would know that he is OK," says Professor Andrew Hudson-Smith (UCL CASA).
Read: BBC NewsThe future of housing
Dr Jez Wingfield (UCL Energy Institute) talks to Radio4 about the government's Zero Carbon Hub report.
Listen: BBC Radio4 (from 45 mins)Tuition fees rise has not put off applications by disadvantaged students
A study found that the number of 18-year-olds applying from poorer areas included a small rise in applications to England's 30 most selective universities - including Oxford, UCL and Manchester...
Read: GuardianStart schooling later than age five, say experts
Prof Sir Al Aynsley-Green, emeritus professor of child health at University College London, said: "If you look at a country like Finland, children don't start formal, full-scale education until they are seven.
Read: Telegraph'Very significant' stem cell breakthrough could pave way to regrow legs
Prof Chris Mason, (UCL Dept of Biochemical Engineering), called the research the 'beginning of limb regeneration'.
Read: Metro More: IndependentArctic ice expands after record melt
"If you get a record one year, you don't expect another record the next year," said Professor Chris Rapley (UCL Earth Sciences).
Read: WSJ (£)Youngsters learn more from good news than dire warnings
The findings "could help to explain the limited impact of campaigns targeted at young people to highlight the dangers of careless driving, unprotected sex, alcohol and drug abuse, and other risky behaviours," said, Christina Moutsiana (UCL Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences).
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