In 2007, Demis Hassabis, a research fellow at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London, and his colleagues published a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing in five amnesiac patients an impoverished ability to imagine and describe future events.

WSJ: Memory: Research Finds Links Between Recall, Future Planning

Chris McManus, a professor of psychology at University College London who has made a study of the pros and cons of left-handedness, said it was true that left-handers did have an advantage in a fight.

BBC: NEWS | Health | Left-handers 'better in fights'

Professor Michael Adler, Head of Reproductive Health at University College Hospital in London, said the study reinforced the importance of taking a good sexual history from people visiting STD clinics.

BBC: Lesbians have 'same risk of sex diseases'

The study, out of the University College London, confirms that time spent at a computer is as damaging to the heart as time spent lounging in front of a television screen.

FORBES: Four hours on your computer doubles risk of heart disease

At 19 he went to London to study precision-instrument making, then worked for the University of Glasgow, where he devised his first major steam engine improvement: a separate, exterior condenser.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Researchers at University College London (UCL) have just finished a three-year study of British slave-owners and found the ancestors of novelists George Orwell and Graham Greene and the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott all owned slaves.

BBC: How many Britons are descended from slave-owners?

An A-level student, he had planned to study architecture at university, but was killed in a racist attack at a bus stop in south east London in April 1993.

BBC: Doreen Lawrence launches race education centre

At the age of 19, Hertz gained her degree at University College London (UCL) and then moved to the U.S. to study for an MBA. In her early twenties, she found herself in St.

CNN: The woman using social media to predict the future

The study at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital near Oswestry is being run by Dr Gareth Ackland at University College London Hospitals.

BBC: Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital

As a student in Vienna, he went to university armed with two Bengali tigers, though he has left them behind to study global governance at the London School of Economics.

ECONOMIST: Oh dear