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Stronger policies and accountability measures to safeguard women athletes online are being called for, as part of a new study on the issue focusing on the case of former footballer Joey Barton. A team from the universities of Manchester, Chester, Hull, Durham and Loughborough investigated misogynistic online rhetoric directed at women and girls in sport.

Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage has penned a new poem for World Cancer Day, inspired by Yorkshire patients and the researchers working to improve outcomes.

After decades of growth, the use of antimicrobials - including antibiotics - in livestock peaked in 2013 and then dropped by nearly a third by 2020, finds a major new study led by UCL researchers.

While popular AI models such as ChatGPT are trained on language or photographs, new models created by researchers from the Polymathic AI collaboration are trained using real scientific datasets.

Studentscore knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust remains insecure, with many struggling to answer basic questions about what happened, to whom, where and when, finds new research from the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education. The findings, published in the Knowledge and Understandings of the Holocaust report, show progress in students' knowledge and understanding compared with results from the Centre-s previous national study in 2016, but also reveals persistent gaps and prevailing misconceptions.

Menopause is linked to reductions in grey matter volume in key brain regions as well as increased levels of anxiety and depression and difficulties with sleep, according to new research from the University of Cambridge.

The University of Cambridge is launching a new Institute aimed at tackling one of the biggest bottlenecks in UK medical research: turning promising laboratory discoveries into regulated devices that can be tested with patients.

New research into the lives of children who attend special schools has revealed a mixed picture of strong support from teachers alongside ongoing challenges with bullying and friendships, as well as unmet needs for some groups of pupils.

A promising new scanning agent developed by researchers at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh has proved suitable for further testing in humans, opening the way for further clinical exploration.

Clinical NHS practices to dispose of pregnancy remains following an early-stage miscarriage (first trimester) appear at odds with some patient wishes and therefore are not conducive to inclusive care, a new study finds.

The use of medications for Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has increased substantially across Europe over the past decade, with the steepest rises seen among adults - particularly women - according to a large population-based study published in The Lancet Regional Health - Europe .

Restricted access to healthcare appointments during typical working hours leads to poorer health-related quality of life, a University of Manchester led study has found.

After death, our digital lives persist. Digital remains raise complex questions surrounding the ownership, privacy and dignity of people after death.

A new initiative will harness the latest advances in artificial intelligence for weather prediction, with a goal of improving climate resilience and food security in West Africa.

Microorganisms live in biofilms - the equivalent of microbial "cities"- everywhere on Earth. These city-like structures protect and house microbial communities and play essential roles in enabling human and plant health on our planet. Now, a new Perspective article published in npj Biofilms and Microbiomes sets out a path to uncover the role of biofilms in health during long-duration spaceflight, and how spaceflight research can reshape our understanding of these microbial communities on Earth.

Four in five women musicians have experienced sexual violence and harassment while working or taking part in the Scottish folk music scene, according to new survey findings.

The latest results from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration, which involves UCL researchers, combined four methods for measuring the expansion of the universe for the first time. Dark energy is the mysterious force that is accelerating the expansion of the universe and represents about 70% of the total content of the universe.

Researchers are harnessing the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance weather prediction and improve climate resilience and food security in West Africa.

A new collaboration between University of Glasgow engineers and the European Space Agency (ESA) has showcased the potential of nomadic mobile communications networks to enable remote healthcare.