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UCL's partner schools in east London achieve outstanding A Levels success
Students from schools working in partnership with UCL's Schools Engagement team are celebrating exceptional A Level results, with many progressing to leading universities including here at UCL.
14 Aug 2026
£8 million gift to create quantum institute at UCL
The David Potter Institute for Quantum Information and Spacetime, established with an award from the David and Elaine Potter Foundation, will aim to reconcile two fundamental theories of the universe.
10 Aug 2026
AI platform to help devise new treatment approaches
UCL scientists will be developing an AI platform which could one day help researchers identify new treatments for illnesses such as lung and liver diseases, as part of a new international consortium.
09 Jul 2026
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More vulnerable groups experience the most online abuse
Young people, LGBT+ people and ethnic minorities report experiencing high levels of online abuse, and those with a combination of these characteristics are especially targeted, finds a UCL study.
18 Aug 2026
Experiment places best ever limits on mysterious muon property
UCL scientists have co-led the most sensitive search yet for an elusive property of the subatomic muon particle – a search that has the potential to solve one of the biggest mysteries of the Universe.
18 Aug 2026
Analysis: 4,000-year-old Indonesian rock painting has clues to a major migration event
Writing in The Conversation, Dr Ceri Shipton (UCL Institute of Archaeology) explains that Austronesian explorers may have 'leapfrogged' their way across thousands of kilometres of ocean.
18 Aug 2026
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