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An entrepreneur who has just graduated from UCL is launching a new Kickstarter campaign to fund the opening of a revolutionary type of concept store.

People with lower incomes attempting to quit smoking are 36% more likely to succeed if they use a new interactive website called 'StopAdvisor' than if they use a static information website, finds a randomised controlled trial led by UCL researchers.

The mechanism by which statins increase the risk of type 2 diabetes has been investigated in a large-scale analysis from an international team led by researchers from UCL and the University of Glasgow, using information from genetic studies and clinical trials. Published in The Lancet, the work received support from a number of funders including the Medical Research Council, British Heart Foundation, Rosetrees Trust and National Institute for Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre.

Dr Rodney Harrison (UCL Institute of Archaeology) has been awarded a £1.6million AHRC Large Grant to lead an innovative research programme called 'Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage', one of three grants announced today by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

Sugars in the diet should make up no more than 3% of total energy intake to reduce the significant financial and social burdens of tooth decay, finds new research from UCL and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

The sexual exploitation of boys and young men is a much bigger problem than previously thought according to a landmark study released today.

UCL scientists are set to continue investigations into why expansion of the universe is speeding up, having already secured high quality early data. On 15th August, with its successful first season behind it, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration, which includes over a dozen researchers from UCL's Astrophysics Group (within Physics & Astronomy), began its second year of mapping the southern sky in unprecedented detail.

In July, UCL Engineering and UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (CEGE) teamed up with the James Dyson Foundation to create an innovative week-long summer school.

A group of secondary school students have designed their own space missions during a new week-long work experience programme at the UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL).

UCL has no places available through Clearing. However, we have a small number of places available through UCAS Adjustment for very well qualified applicants that have exceeded the conditions of their firm choice.

Proposals are invited for the IOE/UCL New Grant Development Fund. The Fund is intended to facilitate applications for significant external funding for research collaboration between the IOE and UCL.

UCL is continuing its commitment to the growth of technology entrepreneurship and the development of London's Tech City through a revolutionary scheme that aims to encourage and nurture brand new start-ups within the technology industry.

The UCL Green project primarily works closely with UCL departments, academics and the student union to improve the sustainability and environmental impact of UCL in terms of their curriculum, energy and transport.

Weight loss significantly improves physical health but effects on mental health are less straightforward, finds new UCL research funded by Cancer Research UK. In a study of 1,979 overweight and obese adults in the UK, people who lost 5% or more of their initial body weight over four years showed significant changes in markers of physical health, but were more likely to report depressed mood than those who stayed within 5% of their original weight.

Every year, London's centralised stroke services save around 96 stroke patients who would have died under standard hospital treatment, finds UCL-led research.

UCL has appointed Professor Stephen Caddick to a new position to include responsibilities for London.

After a string of penalties aimed in the same direction, goalkeepers are more likely to dive in the opposite direction on the next penalty but kickers fail to exploit this pattern, finds new UCL research.

The world's largest arts festival returns this summer, offering a huge programme that includes theatre, comedy, dance, music and more.

Invertebrate numbers have decreased by 45% on average over a 35 year period in which the human population doubled, reports a study on the impact of humans on declining animal numbers.

An experiment in 'scholarly crowdsourcing', which engages the public in the online transcription of papers written by the celebrated philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), has published its 10,000th transcription this week.

The partners of women who miscarry often feel invisible, ignored and sidelined during and after miscarriage - and unable to talk about their own feelings of loss and pain - according to new findings from UCL and the Miscarriage Association.

Labelling people with moderately high blood sugar as pre-diabetic is a drastically premature measure with no medical value and huge financial and social costs, say researchers from UCL and the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota. The analysis, published in the BMJ, considered whether a diagnosis of pre-diabetes carried any health benefits such as improved diabetes prevention.

UCL Special Collections, in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust, have announced the launch of a digitised archive of papers by the Victorian scientist, Sir Francis Galton. Containing a substantial number of biographical notes and images spanning several generations, the digitised collection also includes a number of letters between Galton and notable Victorian scientists, travellers, and politicians including his cousin Charles Darwin and Joseph Hooker.

Schools from in and around London have used over 12000 lemons in a day of frenzied lemonade selling that would rival The Apprentice as part of international Citrus Saturday.

An initiative to see if playground design can inspire schoolchildren to be more active, Camden Active Spaces, is launched today at the Institute of Sport Exercise and Health (ISEH) in partnership with UCL and Camden Council.

A team of researchers led by Dr Helen Chatterjee (UCL Museums & Collections) will begin a new three year project this month, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), to explore the value and role of museums in social prescribing.

Treatments to reduce blood sugar levels do more harm than good in many type 2 diabetes patients, particularly older people, finds new research from UCL, the University of Michigan and the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Hospital.

UCL, in collaboration with Ricardo-AEA, has been appointed by WWF Scotland - part of the international WWF network, one of the world's most influential environmental organizations - to propose possible 2030 targets for the country's renewable energy production.

Climate scientists need to establish a professional body to help define their roles, values and practices to satisfy society's needs, and to provide guidance to improve their training and development

The bright core of a spiral galaxy has unexpectedly dimmed, according to a new study by an international team of astronomers. The nucleus of galaxy NGC 5548, which contains a region of powerful X-ray light surrounding the galaxy's central black hole, has been obscured by a fast-flowing stream of gas.

Over the past four months, we have been working with colleagues from across UCL to develop our academic and financial plans to establish a new campus on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (QEOP).