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An update from Ian Dancy, UCL's Executive Director of Operations, with the latest news on UCL's security consultation process and details of drop-in sessions for staff.

An international project to find new treatments for muscular dystrophy, led by a UCL researcher, has been awarded a €9.5 million (£8 million) grant from Horizon Europe and UKRI.

A key innovation of the industrial revolution, credited to Englishman Henry Cort, was in fact pioneered in Jamaica by Black metallurgists, the majority of whom were enslaved, according to a new study by UCL's Dr Jenny Bulstrode (UCL Science & Technology Studies).

Almost half the school pupils with long COVID felt they had fallen behind classmates, a UCL study shows.

Writing in the Conversation, Dr Joana Jacob Ramalho (UCL SELCS) breaks down the latest in a series of global marketing stunts promoting Greta Gerwig's new film, a real-life Barbie DreamHouse created by Airbnb.

Professor Christina Pagel (Clinical Operational Research Unit at UCL) and Professor Katherine Brown (UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science) share the findings of their new research in The Conversation on the rates and factors impacting COVID infections in children. At the heights of the pandemic, particularly since 2021, many children and teenagers admitted to hospital had COVID.

Experts at UCL, Queen Mary University of London and Great Ormond Street Hospital are aiming to develop revolutionary treatments for children diagnosed with low-grade brain tumours, following major new funding. The research team have been awarded £1.6 million by The Brain Tumour Charity to advance knowledge of low-grade brain tumours, how they behave in the body, how to better treat them and how to improve quality of life for children affected.

UCL researchers among leading experts to sign open letter highlighting the "alarming misunderstandings and misconceptions" around the proposed Online Safety Bill. Scientists from the UK's National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online (REPHRAIN) has called on Parliament to consider independent scientific evaluation before voting through the online safety bill, which could inadvertently enable surveillance technologies and erode online protection.

A lack of understanding by, and encouragement from, management is proving a barrier to the uptake of technologies like artificial intelligence in the legal services sector, according to a new report by UCL, the University of Manchester, and the Law Society.

Early years practitioners working in socially disadvantaged areas should receive bespoke professional training to help boost children's English oral language development, finds a study led by UCL.

A new "landmark" report recommending ways to address the ongoing and historic racism, elitism and sexism prevalent in English and Welsh cricket was co-led by a UCL researcher.

Dr Victoria Garfield (MRC Unit for Lifelong Health & Ageing at UCL), Valentina Paz (University of the Republic (Uruguay) and MRC Unit) and Hassan S Dashti of Harvard University share the results of their new study on the benefits of napping in The Conversation. Sleep plays an important role in keeping the brain healthy, which is why people are advised to get at least 7-9 hours each night.

The true number of autistic people in England may be more than double the number often cited in national health policy documents, suggests a new study by UCL researchers. The first-of-its-kind research, published in  The Lancet Regional Health Europe,  estimated how many adults in England may have undiagnosed autism.

As young people weren't considered to be at high risk from Covid-19 directly, pandemic policy decisions largely ignored their needs and resulted in their long-term detriment, finds a global consortium of universities led by UCL researchers. The report, titled "The Impact of COVID-19 on Education, Food & Play-Leisure and Related Adaptations for Children and Young People," outlines how slow government action and policy gaps in efforts to stop the spread of Covid-19 had negative impacts on children and young people's health and welfare.

Euclid, a space mission led by the European Space Agency that includes a massive optical camera designed and built by UCL researchers, will map the large-scale structures of the universe to better understand two mysterious components: dark matter and dark energy. Everything that we can see and detect in the world around us - the stars, galaxies, flowers, our bodies, atoms - represents just 5% of the universe.

Read more about our new electrical vehicle (EV) salary sacrifice lease scheme, which will go live on Friday 23 June at 9am.

Around 20% of women who needed fertility treatment, such as IVF, to conceive their first child are likely to get pregnant naturally in the future, finds a new UCL study.

To prompt discussion about the circular economy and celebrate the role of stone in the City of London's creation, 58 granite blocks from London's Victoria Embankment on the Thames have been relocated throughout the City, as part of a project designed by UCL architects.