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Writing in The Conversation, Dr Giorgio Di Gessa (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) explores why women from poorer backgrounds help out most with childcare.

More than 78 million cigarettes are smoked in England, Wales and Scotland every day, translating to about 900 being lit up every second, according to a new study from UCL researchers.

A UCL-led group of world-leading scientists is joining Pacific sailors on a voyage like no other - to understand how indigenous navigators expertly find their way by sensing the swells of the ocean. Sailors from the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific are famed for their extraordinary skill of wave piloting.

While parenthood is linked with better mental health, new UCL research reveals social and economic circumstances also matter. Mothers and fathers in their early 30s in England are slightly less likely to report symptoms of depression and anxiety and tend to be more satisfied with life than their peers who have not started a family.

Innovative virtual eye clinics in shopping centres could significantly reduce waiting times for routine eye appointments, UCL-led research suggests in a first-of-its-kind study.

Paul Dobraszczyk (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture) explores five ways of integrating plants into buildings beyond simply trying to grow them on walls in The Conversation.

The annual number of heat-related deaths in England and Wales is set to rise up to fiftyfold over the next 50 years because of climate change, finds new research by UCL and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Writing in The Conversation, Professor Richard Wortley (UCL Security & Crime Science), explores his research into what happens when drinking precedes killing.

Professor Joanna Moncrieff (UCL Psychiatry) argues in The Conversation that a new review of antidepressant withdrawal effects risks underestimating the potential harms to long-term antidepressant users by focusing on short-term, studies.

An artificial intelligence (AI) system that enables a four-legged robot to adapt its gait to varied, unfamiliar terrain, just like a real animal, has been developed by researchers at UCL and the University of Leeds.

When people watch a live contemporary dance performance, their brainwaves sync up, signalling shared focus and attention, according to a new study led by UCL researchers. That synchrony dropped when the same performance was viewed alone on video, report the authors of the new iScience paper. Dr Guido Orgs (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience), a neuroscientist and dancer who was the senior author of the paper, said: "We wanted to explore what makes live performance feel so different from watching a recording.

The largest review of 'gold standard' antidepressant withdrawal studies to date has identified the type and incidence of symptoms experienced by people discontinuing antidepressants, in a study involving UCL authors, finding that most people do not experience severe withdrawal.

The NSS 2025 results, released on Wednesday 9 July, reflect improvements across areas of importance to our studentsexperience.

Emma Connolly (UCL Digital Speech Lab) explores the issues, from fears about technology to threats to democracy, that voters on both sides of the political divide agree in The Conversation.

Writing in The Conversation, Professor Jamie Brown and Professor Lion Shahab (UCL Behavioural Science and Health) offer strategies to help vapers quit the quit-aid.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be made more sustainable by making practical changes, such as reducing the number of decimal places used in AI models, shortening responses, and using smaller AI models, according to research from UCL published in a new UNESCO report.

Contributing to The Conversation's user-friendly guide to climate finance , Professor Mark Maslin (UCL Geography) explains key technical terms and jargon.