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Teenage truancy rates in developed Anglophone countries have risen faster than non-English-speaking countries since the pandemic, with girls more likely to skip school than boys, finds a working paper by Prof John Jerrim UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/nov/…

A new type of therapy that ‘edits’ a gene in patients with a rare heart condition has been shown to be safe and effective, according to a new clinical trial led by Prof Marianna Fontana & Prof Julian Gillmore DoM_UCL UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences & Royal Free London ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/nov/…

Police services across Britain are failing to meet the public’s minimum standards of service delivery, according to a new report from Prof Ben Bradford UCL Crime Science UCL Engineering in collaboration with Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/nov/…

The way that nearly six million galaxies have clustered over 11 billion years backs up Einstein’s prediction about gravity, according to a new study of data from the DESI Survey involving Profs Ofer Lahav, Peter Doel and David Brooks UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/nov/…


Private school pupils in England no longer perform better than state pupils in English, Maths & Science GCSEs after socioeconomic adjusting, but still retain the edge in creative subjects, finds research led by Prof Jake Anders Centre for Ed Policy & Equalising Opportunities IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/nov/…

About one in five ex-smokers in England currently vape, equivalent to 2.2 million people, according to a new study led by Sarah Jackson and Professor Lion Shahab Behavioural Science & Health UCL, with around 200,000 adults taking up vaping years after giving up smoking ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/nov/…



The clinical language used around pregnancy loss can exacerbate patients' grief and trauma, and should be personalised where possible, according to work by Dr Dr Beth Malory (she/her) 🏴🇮🇪 Survey of English Usage UCL UCL Arts & Humanities ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/nov/…

Chemists including Dr Adam J Clancy and Gareth Williams have created the world's thinnest spaghetti, 200 times thinner than a human hair. It is not intended as food but as an eco-friendly nanofiber that could be used in smart bandages and to help bone regeneration ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/nov/…


The heart condition dilated cardiomyopathy can be caused by the cumulative influence of hundreds or thousands of genes and not just by a single “aberrant” genetic variant, finds a new study co-led by Dr Tom Lumbers The UCL Institute of Health Informatics with Imperial College London MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/nov/…


Infants whose mothers regularly use language to describe what their child is thinking or feeling have higher levels of the hormone oxytocin, which is important for developing social relationships and trust, finds a new study led by Dr Kate Lindley Baron-Cohen UCL Psych & Lang Sci ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/nov/…

🖊️From US $300 billion investment to methane commitments, Professor Mark Maslin 👋 𝕏 UCL Geography, Professor @PritiParikh73 The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction and Dr Simon CHIN-YEE UCL Political Science - School of Public Policy offer their five key takeaways from #COP29 in The The Conversation. theconversation.com/cop29-five-cri…

UCL researchers co-led by Professor Anna David Anna David UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health UCL Population Health Sciences will form part of a new £50m National Institute for Health and Care Research initiative to reduce maternity inequalities by improving care and support for families before and between pregnancies ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/nov/…

Congratulations to Dr Karen Nokes and Alex White from UCL Faculty of Laws on winning the Economic and Social Research Council's prestigious 2024 Celebrating Impact Prize for Outstanding Societal Impact award for their research with University of Exeter on the Horizon Post Office scandal ucl.ac.uk/laws/news/2024…

Large language models, a type of #AI that analyses text, can predict the results of proposed neuroscience studies more accurately than human experts, finds a new study led by Dr Ken Luo Xiaoliang (Ken) Luo and Prof Brad Love Bradley Love UCL Psych & Lang Sci ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/nov/…

Congratulations to Dr Juliano Denicol The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction The Bartlett who has been named on the PMI Future 50 Global Award 2024 list, in recognition of his work advancing the science to manage the world’s most complex infrastructure programmes. ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/dec/…