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'Incredibly exciting': astronomers including PhD candidate Larissa Palethorpe MullardSpaceScience Physics Astro @ Edin and Dr Vincent Van Eylen UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences have discovered a temperate, Earth-sized planet that could conceivably host life ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…
Researchers at UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science have been awarded £3m from British Heart Foundation to advance their work trialling new treatments, delivering a simulation lab and robotics programme, and better understanding ethnic differences in cardiovascular health UCL Population Health Sciences ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…
Vaping has tripled among young adults in England since the arrival of disposable e-cigarettes, but smoking has also declined more in this age group, finds a new study led by Dr Harry Harry Tattan-Birch, PhD and Sarah Jackson UCL IEHC Behavioural Science & Health UCL UCL Population Health Sciences ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…
Five new views of the Universe have been released today, captured by the ESA's Euclid mission space telescope, whose massive optical camera was designed and built by an international team led by Professor Mark Cropper MullardSpaceScience UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…
'Home, school & the workplace are all environments where boys may receive overly positive reinforcement, especially when it comes to...science & tech, and girls might not': Dr Nikki Shure @uclsocres writes about research into the 'confidence pay penalty' ft.com/content/1e8a89…
Congratulations to Professors Christopher Denton @IIT_UCL, Alison Rodger UCL Global Health, @Mayor_lab @UCLBiosciences & @SQuezadd @UCLCancer on their election as Fellows to @AcMedSci in recognition of their outstanding contributions to biomedical research
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UCL researchers are to partner with RISE Research Institutes of Sweden to explore how the brain interacts with built environments, to help design sustainable surroundings that can enhance health and wellbeing
UCL Global Engagement UCL Brain Sciences The Bartlett
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'The message is clear: it would be an extraordinary act of national self-harm for the government to curb the right of international students to stay in the UK for two years after they graduate': Dr Michael Spence, UCL President & Provost writes in Financial Times ft.com/content/48c1c5…
Considerable progress has been made in curbing the trade of big cat-derived products in South Korea, but some risk of small-scale illegal trade remains, reports a new study led by PhD candidate Joshua Elves-Powell UCL Geography UCL Biosciences ZSL Science
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'It does not negate the vital role it played in 2021 in saving millions of lives across the world.'
As the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine is discontinued, Prof Prof. Christina Pagel UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences and Prof Prof Sheena Cruickshank (she/her) explore the vaccine's wide-reaching global impact.
newstatesman.com/spotlight/heal…
Climate change, including its effects on weather patterns and adverse weather events, is likely to negatively affect the health of people with brain conditions such as dementia, argue a team of experts led by Prof Sanjay Sisodiya UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL Brain Sciences ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…
Congratulations to Professor Sarah Tabrizi UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL Brain Sciences UK Dementia Research Institute and Professor Bart Vanhaesebroeck UCL Cancer Institute UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences for being elected Fellows of the The Royal Society in recognition of their invaluable contributions to scientific research
ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…
🔊'On the ground, in Westminster and Whitehall, people's minds have turned to post-election realities.'
Director of UCL Policy Lab Marc Stears Marc Stears joins The @Guardian’s #PoliticsWeekly podcast to examine Labour's new deal for working people.
theguardian.com/politics/audio…
Congratulations to Dr Kirsty Kirsty Sinclair Dootson (she/her) UCL SELCS/CMII UCL Arts & Humanities for being recognised as one of 2024’s New Generation Thinkers by BBC & Arts and Humanities Research Council, allowing her to share her research on the dark history of Technicolor film with BBCRadio4 listeners
ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…
The newly improved public realm on the northside of Gordon Square, directly outside UCL Institute of Archaeology and managed by UCL Estates, was officially opened to the public after a launch event yesterday
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The ability to regulate body temperature, a trait all mammals and birds share today, may have evolved among some dinosaurs 180 million years ago, suggests a new study led by Dr Alessandro Chiarenza EarthSciences UCL UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences and Universidade de Vigo researchers 🦖🌋 ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…
The weight loss drug #semaglutide delivers benefits to heart health that are independent of a person's weight and the amount of weight they lost while taking the drug, finds preliminary analysis led by Professor John Deanfield UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science UCL Population Health Sciences ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…
'The reception [of] migrants across the EU often entails criminalisation, persecution, and health harms': writing in The Lancet, Ibrahim Abubakar UCL Global Health & co-authors call for a 'rekindling of humanity' in Europe's approach to migrants thelancet.com/journals/lance…
Apps to monitor female health are exposing users to unnecessary privacy and safety risks through their poor data handling practices, finds new research involving Dr Mark Warner UCL Computer Science UCL Engineering and colleagues at King's College London
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