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Sustainable development goals for water quality will not be met without the involvement of citizen scientists, argue an international team led by a UCL researcher, in a new policy brief. The policy brief and attached technical brief are published by Earthwatch Europe on behalf of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)-coordinated World Water Quality Alliance that has supported citizen science projects in Kenya, Tanzania and Sierra Leone.

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Toddlers in the UK obtain nearly half (47%) of their calories from ultra-processed foods (UPFs), and this rises to 59% by the age of seven, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.

Over 1.5 billion objects in the Milky Way have been mapped in a project involving UCL researchers. Over the course of 13 years, the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) survey and its extension, the VVV eXtended survey (VVVX), observed the central regions of the Milky Way. The surveys used VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy), a European Southern Observatory (ESO) facility in Chile, with 420 nights of observation capturing approximately 200,000 images, generating 500 terabytes of scientific data.

The number of adults vaping in England who have never regularly smoked has increased sharply since 2021, when disposable e-cigarettes first became popular, according to a new study by UCL researchers. The study, published in Lancet Public Health and funded by Cancer Research UK, estimated that, as of April 2024, about one million adults who had never regularly smoked now vaped in England, a sevenfold increase since 2021, with most of them vaping daily and over a sustained period.

A UCL engineer, who designed and built his own electric motorbike, is the first person to complete two of the UK's most historic motoring trials, the Edinburgh Trial and the Land's End Trial, with an electric vehicle of any kind.

Structural racism affects the health and wellbeing of ethnic minority group communities in London and contributes to avoidable and unfair inequalities between ethnic groups, finds a new report published by the UCL Institute of Health Equity (IHE). Structural Racism, Ethnicity and Health Inequalities in London reviews both published and unpublished reports, materials and research, as well as health and social determinants data.

The European Space Agency's Plato satellite, which will search for Earth-like planets orbiting the habitable zone of stars, is a step closer to launch after a UCL-led team delivered key electronics for the mission.

Results of a world-first phase 3 trial for secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS), led by UCL researchers, have shown that the commonly used high-cholesterol drug simvastatin cannot slow disability progression. The results, announced at the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS) conference in Copenhagen, followed promising phase 2 trial findings.

Targeted interventions can raise overall educational outcomes for students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) by an average of five months, compared to teaching-as-usual or standard interventions, finds a report by UCL researchers.

Analysis: Growing number of war-weary Ukrainians would reluctantly give up territory to save lives, Writing in The Conversation, Professor Kristin Bakke (UCL Political Science) examines survey result