A total of 74 UCL academics are featured in Clarivate's annual 'Highly Cited Researchers List' 2024, recognising authors of the most influential research papers around the world.

Scientists from The University of Manchester have developed a pioneering process using engineered bacteria to transform complex mixed waste into sustainable biopolymers including human therapeutics such as insulin, and bioplastics. A new study from the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology describes a novel biological method to convert mixed municipal waste-like fractions - including food scraps, plastics, and textiles - into valuable bio-products.

Humanitarian organisations are being urged to look beyond the point of rescue.

Two massive asteroids hit Earth around 35.65 million years ago, but did not lead to any lasting changes in the Earth's climate, according to a new study by UCL researchers. The rocks, both several miles wide, hit Earth about 25,000 years apart, leaving the 60-mile (100km) Popigai crater in Siberia, Russia, and the 25-55 mile (40-85km) crater in the Chesapeake Bay, in the United States - the fourth and fifth largest known asteroid craters on Earth.

Excavations at an ancient Iraqi site called Shakhi Kora have revealed new clues about the origins of the world's earliest governing institutions, according to research led by the University of Glasgow. The research published in the journal Antiquity today (Wednesday 4 December 2024) suggests these early governing institutions emerged partly from their ability to provide large-scale meals, potentially as payment for labour.

Pupils in years 5 and 9 in England have maintained or improved scores in maths and science compared to pre-pandemic results, report UCL researchers who analysed findings in the latest Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).

New open access software could be used by clinicians, physiotherapists, sports coaches and athletes to analyse body movements without motion capture suits.

Beans and peas rank as the best meat and milk replacement from nutritional, health, environmental, and cost perspectives, finds a new study by researchers at UCL and the University of Oxford.

Around ten per cent of all'heterosexual couples of all'ages in the UK live in different households while maintaining a steady intimate relationship with each other, finds a new study led by a researcher at UCL. Published in the Journal of Family Issues, this new research found that in the UK, around four per cent of over 60s are in a relationship where they're living apart but together (LAT), which is comparable to that in other countries such as the United States, Netherlands, and Canada.

There is little evidence to support the increasing use of surveillance technologies on inpatient mental health wards, finds a new study involving UCL researchers.