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Dr Nora Trompeter (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health), writing with Dr Tom Jewell in The Conversation, describes her research that found calorie labels on restaurant menus can negatively impact people with eating disorders.

A new study is seeking to harness the potential of weight-loss drugs without some of the unwelcome side-effects, in a £1.2 million research The anti-diabetic medication semaglutide, also known

Writing in The Conversation, Ali Akbar Septiandri (UCL Statistical Science) explains how we can prevent bias in the use of AI in the medical world.

There was a 65% increase in the number of children and young people being admitted to general acute medical wards in hospitals in England because of a mental health concern between 2012 and 2022, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

The remains of the earliest dinosaurs may lie undiscovered in the Amazon and other equatorial regions of South America and Africa, suggests a new study led by UCL researchers. Currently, the oldest known dinosaur fossils date back about 230 million years and were unearthed further south in places including Brazil, Argentina and Zimbabwe.

Doctors could in the future be able to predict individual chances of getting cancer and offer personalised detection and prevention, thanks to a new research The Cancer Data-Driven Detection programm

Wild baboons failed to demonstrate visual self-recognition in a test carried out by anthropologists at UCL. Published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the study found that while the baboons noticed and responded to a laser mark shone on their arms, legs and hands, they did not react when they saw, via their mirror reflection, the laser on their faces and ears.

Just over one in 20 adults in England both smoke and vape, according to a new study by UCL researchers. The study, published in the journal Addiction and funded by Cancer Research UK, looked at survey data between 2016 and 2024. It found that the proportion of people both smoking and vaping rose from 3.5% (about one in 30) to 5.2% (about one in 20) during this period, with a sharp rise from 2021, when disposable e-cigarettes first became popular.

Calorie labelling of food on menus and products leads people to choose slightly fewer calories finds a new Cochrane review co-led by UCL researchers.

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its sky-scanning phase, racking up more than three trillion observations of two billion stars and other objects over a decade to revolutionise our view of the galaxy.

A psychedelic drug is being tested as a novel way to reduce problematic alcohol consumption, in an ongoing study led by UCL researchers.

Professor Carla Figueira De Morisson Faria (UCL Physics & Astronomy) writes in The Conversation about how research into incredibly short laser pulses can have wide ranging impacts across a range of technologies.

Rapid change seen in the Formby squirrels' jaws following the removal of supplementary peanuts may have implications for the conservation of red squirrels and other species argues Dr Philip Cox (UCL Biosciences) in The Conversation.

Living in a family where there is genetic risk for dementia significantly affects choices about having children and how to parent, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

Better support is needed for prisoners and prison staff to protect them from moral injuries - psychological wounds caused by witnessing or experiencing events that deeply conflict with a person's values - finds a new study co-led by UCL researchers. Experts from UCL, the University of Bath, King's College London, Combat Stress, and NHS partners have published a report in the European Journal of Psychotraumatology , urging the UK government to provide targeted mental health support for prison staff and prisoners.

A test to detect tumour DNA circulating in the blood can predict lung cancer outcomes, finds new research from scientists at UCL, the Francis Crick Institute, UCLH and Personalis.