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Around seven in ten (68%) young adults who are part of generation Z report binge drinking in the past year, with almost a third (29%) regularly consuming six or more alcoholic drinks in one sitting, according to new UCL research. For the study, researchers from the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies analysed data from nearly 10,000 people born across the UK in 2000-02 who are taking part in the Millennium Cohort Study.

The world's longest continuously running birth cohort study, which follows thousands of participants born in the first week of March 1946 and is hosted by UCL, is celebrating its 80th birthday.

University of Warwick and MIT scientists reveal hidden microscopic networks on catalyst surfaces that could lead to cleaner and greener chemical processes. Catalysts are essential to modern industry, accelerating reactions used to produce everything from fertilisers and fuels to medicines and hydrogen energy.

A year after stopping taking weight loss drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy, people regain on average 60% of their lost weight - but beyond this, their weight regain plateaus, with individuals managing to keep off 25% of the weight lost to treatment, say researchers at the University of Cambridge. Drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy act like brakes on our appetite.

Cambridge scientists have shown that when tumours first emerge, interactions with healthy cells in the underlying supportive tissue determine their ability to survive, grow, and progress to advanced stages of disease. The way healthy tissue responds to the emergence of early tumours also plays a crucial role in whether disease develops Greta Skrupskelyte The study, carried out in mice and further validated using human tissue, may explain why some tiny, newly-formed tumours disappear, while others manage to survive and eventually grow into cancer.

Payments that enable landowners to rewild ecologically degraded land - in the form of biodiversity credits bought by investors wishing to offset their impact on nature - could be an effective component of the emerging market for nature recovery, but will not work as a stand-alone approach.

Dr Lucy Core (UCL UK Dementia Research Institute) describes in The Conversation how some patients with dementia can develop new and unexpected interests, suggesting that not all dementia symptoms are related to memory loss.

A new analysis of Child Measurement Programme data from England, Scotland, and Wales challenges recent reports suggesting children in Britain are getting shorter. The analysis, conducted by researchers at the University of Oxford, reveals that average child height has increased over the past two decades.

Suicide in autistic people originates in the inequalities they face across their lives, starting in childhood, and spanning education to employment, and health and social care, a new study by a team at Cambridge and Bournemouth Universities has found.

University of Warwick research warns that popular deep learning systems trained for cancer pathology may be relying on hidden shortcuts rather than genuine biological signals.

Black women in the UK are entering menopause severely under informed, under supported, and often dismissed by healthcare professionals, according to new research from the UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health. Published in the journal Post Reproductive Health , researchers say the study highlights urgent gaps in menopause education and calls for culturally competent care to address longstanding health inequalities.

A new study has revealed a critical gap between global promises to restore forests and what is happening on the ground for the communities who depend on, manage and care for them. The research, led by researchers from The University of Manchester and published in the journal Restoration Ecology , is based on a detailed assessment of national policies in Mexico.

Getting children to play together cooperatively depends less on their personal social skills and more on what they are doing - especially if they are not friends - a study shows.

More than two thirds of people in the UK are living with their parents at age 23, around three times higher than a generation of millennials when they were a similar age a decade ago.