UCL in the media
Camden council pioneers computer coding in schools
The London local authority is working with UCL and Google to turn children from users to creators of computer technology.
Left behind
"The history department at »Ê¼Ò»ªÈË has redesigned its course to make it far more intellectually coherent and stimulating to its undergraduates." says Anthony Seldon.
Digital pill tells doctors if patients are taking their drugs right
Nick Barber, Professor of Pharmacy at »Ê¼Ò»ªÈË, said failure to take drugs properly was a major problem with up to 50 per cent of patients not taking them as prescribed.
Syria: legal doubt cast on British government's case for intervention
ProfÌýPhilippe Sands (UCL Faculty of Laws) Ìýsaid the argument set out on Thursday by Dominic Grieve, "is premised on factual assumptions - principally that the weapons were used by the Syrian government..."
Lactose Tolerance And Multiple Genetic Adaptations - A Soft Selective Sweep
Dr. Bryony Jones (UCL Genetics, Evolution and Environment) "Such variations have so far been very poorly studied and it will be important for them to be better characterized to understand better the relationship between historic adaptation and 21st century disease susceptibility."
Dementia patients face higher risk of urinary incontinence
British researchers, from UCL, Kingston University and St. George's University, looked at the records of more than 200,000 seniors, about a quarter of whom had dementia, to determine whether dementia played a role in incontinence diagnoses.
BBC Newsnight: Syria
Dr Meg Russell (UCL Political Science) says, "over the last decade - particularly in the run up to Iraq - we've seen more pressure for parliament to have explicit decsion making power."
Nanomagnets clean blood
'The significant advance of this work over previous research is that they used nanoparticles with a high magnetic moment,' saysÌýNguyen T K Ngan (UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health)
Spectral library chronicles chemical evolution of Italian stamps
ProfÌýRobin ClarkÌý(UCL Chemistry) says that, while useful in philatelic studies, the database is not entirely foolproof as not all the components are detectable with FT-IR alone.
Cambridge Mill Road chalk graffiti charts scientists' community data
Lisa Koeman and Vaiva Kalnikaite (UCL Department of Computer Science), are collecting "community data" and presenting it as street art.