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The European Space Agency (ESA) has approved a new mission, which includes scientists from UCL, to explore Jupiter and the habitability of its icy moons.

Professor David Bogle (Head of UCL Graduate School) gave evidence on 24 April to the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee inquiry into higher education in STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).

The first satellite to carry experiments devised and operated by UK universities including UCL was launched 50 years ago today. The launch of 'Ariel 1' marked Britain's first step into space, making it the world's third space-faring nation. The satellite carried six scientific experiments designed and built by British space scientists.

Older people are a benefit, rather than a burden, to the economy and society according to a new report from the UCL School of Pharmacy.

Internet users from countries with a higher per capita gross domestic product (GDP) are more likely to search for information about the future than information about the past, a quantitative analysis of Google search queries has shown. The findings, published today in the journal Scientific Reports, suggest there may be a link between online behaviour and real-world economic indicators.

UCL has contributed to setting the European research agenda relating to cultural heritage and global change.

All cattle are descended from as few as 80 animals that were domesticated from wild ox in the Near East some 10,500 years ago, according to a new genetic study. An international team of scientists from the CNRS and National Museum of Natural History in France, the University of Mainz in Germany, and UCL in the UK were able to conduct the study by first extracting DNA from the bones of domestic cattle excavated in Iranian archaeological sites.

UCL will play a key role in a new £3.7million regional centre for supercomputing, following an award from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

A new project is being launched that will help forecast what the UK's coastline will look like in up to 100 years' time. The four-year £2.9m iCoast project brings together UCL scientists with researchers from a number of other UK universities, research laboratories and leading consultants, to develop new methods that will characterise and forecast long-term changes to coastal sediment systems.

UCL Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML) and the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) in Tokyo have signed an agreement to work together to develop the field of statistical machine learning.

A UCL-led project to map changes in sea ice in the Arctic has released its data after the conclusion of the 5 year project.

In 1965, the UK government set the speed limit for UK motorways at 70mph. The UK government has indicated its intention to consult on the proposal to increase the motorway speed limit in England and Wales from 70 to 80mph.

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) today announced the award of £18million to three projects led by University College London (UCL) Engineering.

Familiarity with your partner is usually thought to promote teamwork, but new research has found that on coral reefs at least, female cleaner fish are more cooperative with unfamiliar males than their breeding partner.

Professor Tadj Oreszczyn and Professor Paul Ekins (UCL Energy Institute) have been announced as advisors to the Department of Energy and Climate Change's new Energy Efficiency Deployment Office (EEDO).

A multimedia exhibition featuring film, images and rarely seen cultural objects from Sierra Leone that explores the role cultural heritage can play in reanimating post-conflict and developing societies opens at UCL this week.

At any one time a million people in England are living with long term pain which could have been prevented or be being significantly better treated, according to joint UCL School of Pharmacy and UK Clinical Pharmacy Association report published today.

Without human carbon dioxide emissions the next ice age would be imminent, according to a Nature Geoscience study led by a UCL scientist.

Professor David Price, UCL Vice-Provost (Research), comments on the recent speech, Our Hi-Tech Future , by the Minister of State for Universities &.

The School of Pharmacy, University of London, today merged with UCL. The School is now a part of UCL Faculty of Life Sciences, and will officially be known as the UCL School of Pharmacy.

The School of Pharmacy, University of London, today merged with UCL. The School is now a part of UCL Faculty of Life Sciences, and will officially be known as the UCL School of Pharmacy.

A new centre dedicated to the understanding and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases will be established at UCL following the award of a £20million grant from the Wolfson Foundation, it was announced today.

Tackling rising CO2 emissions from the residential sector could make a vital contribution towards mitigating climate change, according to a new report from the UCL Bartlett School of Planning.

The 2011 UCL Research Strategy calls for a transformation of the understanding of the role of our comprehensive research-intensive university in the 21st century.

Why are there two sexes? It's a question that has long perplexed generations of scientists, but researchers from UCL have come up with a radical new answer: mitochondria.

Professor Sir John Tooke, Vice-Provost (Health) at UCL, has today begun a five year term as President of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

The Bloomsbury Institute for Pathogen Research (BiPR), a joint venture between UCL and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), was launched this week.

UK home owners could see reduced energy bills if the government's energy policy takes lessons from a publicly owned German bank that has pioneered energy-efficient construction over the past 30 years, a new report has found.

A time capsule was buried yesterday under the site of The Francis Crick Institute by Francis Crick's daughter Gabrielle.

This year UCL's 'Your Universe' Festival of Astronmy is running in partnership with the London Science Festival 2011.

UCL scientists and engineers are to provide instruments for two major space missions which have been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA).

Solar power could be harvested more efficiently and transported over long distances using tiny molecular circuits, according to research inspired by new insights into natural photosynthesis.

The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging (WTCN) at UCL is cited as a world leader in a new report on human functional brain imaging.

The low genetic diversity of the Iberian lynx ' the most endangered carnivore in Europe - may not decrease the species' chance of survival, according to new research by geneticists. Research looking at DNA from Iberian lynx fossils shows that they have had very little genetic variation over the last 50,000 years, suggesting that a small long-term population size is the 'norm' in the species and has not hampered their survival.

UCL is pleased to announce that it has filled all its places for 2011 entry to its undergraduate degree programmes.

Between 15th and 19th August, 30 talented students from disadvantaged backgrounds will be taking part in the 'Generating Genius? programme at UCL's Faculty of Engineering.

Animal's brains are only roughly aware of how high-up they are in space, meaning that in terms of altitude the brain's 'map' of space is surprisingly flat, according to new research. In a study published online , scientists studied cells in or near a part of the brain called the hippocampus, which forms the brain's map of space, to see whether they were activated when rats climbed upwards.

Ten UCL researchers have received European Research Council (ERC) Starting Investigator grants with a total value of more than £12.4 million.