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Companies around the world are underestimating their total greenhouse gas footprints because of inconsistent accounting standards for methane emissions, finds a new study by researchers from UCL and Imperial College London.

Euclid, the European Space Agency telescope whose massive optical camera was designed and built by an international team led by UCL researchers, has captured a rare phenomenon known as an Einstein ring which reveals the extreme warping of space caused by a galaxy's gravity.

Conversations about parental duties continue to be led by mothers, even if both parents earn the same amount of money, finds a new study by a UCL researcher.

A personalised intervention for hearing care could help protect cognitive health in older adults at risk of dementia, according to a pilot study from UCL and UCLH.

People would be encouraged to eat more healthy and sustainable diets if Value Added Tax (VAT) rates were set based on health and environmental considerations, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

Providing tuberculosis (TB) patients with advice and money can help them to finish their treatment and recover, finds a new study involving UCL researchers. The research, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases , demonstrated that patients who received counselling and cash incentives (around $10) for turning up to appointments on time, had a 52% lower relative risk of having an unsuccessful treatment outcome.

Responding to an Nature article that reported the growth of heart muscle patches from precursor cells to mend the damaged monkey hearts, Professor John Martin (UCL Medicine) cautions scepticism in The Conversation. There are many difficulties in converting any biological research into a medicine that will treat patients.

The GLP-1 drug, exenatide, has no positive impact on the movement, symptoms or brain imaging of people with Parkinson's disease, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. The world's largest and longest trial of exenatide in people with Parkinson's disease was funded by the National Institute for Health & Care Research (NIHR) with support for sub-studies from Cure Parkinson's and Van Andel Institute.

Generally, things really do seem better in the morning, with clear patterns across time of day in how we report our mental health and wellbeing, suggest the findings of a large study led by researchers at UCL. The findings, published in the open access journal BMJ Mental Health , suggest that people generally wake up feeling in the best frame of mind in the morning but in the worst around midnight, with day of the week and season also playing their part. But the researchers caution that the findings need to be replicated in other studies to be sure they are a true picture.

Children are nearly three-quarters (71%) more likely to develop mental health problems between the ages of five and 18, if the firstborn child in their family experienced adversity during their first 1,000 days, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

A quarter of all children in England receive services from children's social care before turning 18, finds a new study by UCL researchers.

Increased use of ventilation and air cleaners, designed to mitigate the spread of viral infections in hospitals, is likely to have unpredictable effects and may cause viral particles to move around more, according to a new study from researchers at UCL and UCLH. In the study, published in Aerosol Science & Technology , researchers investigated the effect of using built-in mechanical ventilation and portable air cleaners (PACs) 1 upon the spread of airborne particles, which are similar to those breathed out by a person with a viral respiratory infection such as SARS-CoV-2 or influenza.

People who exercise throughout their lives have a better chance of avoiding dementia - even if they show signs of diseases like Alzheimer's, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. The research, which is published in Brain Communications , is part of the Insight46 study, which has been collecting health data from over 450 people since their birth in 1946.