Researchers at UCL are pioneering groundbreaking cancer treatments which reprogramme the patient’s own immune system to recognise and kill cancerous cells.

How do people move around a city? What are their habits? Where do they walk and why do they do it? UCL spin-out company Space Syntax has informed the development of more than 600 projects worldwide to improve the urban arena.

Automated vehicles (AVs) will likely be one of the most disruptive technologies of our time but do we know enough about them? Research by UCL’s Transport Institute highlighted almost 400 unanswered questions on AVs’ social, economic and environmental impacts.

The most vulnerable members of our community are often the ones most in need of legal advice, yet they struggle to get help. UCL’s unique advice clinic is changing that and transforming lives and communities.

Across the world, dampness accounts for 70-80% of all reported building problems including structural complications and related health issues. Dr Hector Altamirano, of UCL Bartlett School of Energy, Environment & Resources, is looking at ways to tackle damp.

Englicious is a web-based teaching and learning resource that uses realistic and relevant grammar examples that are easy for children to grasp. Find out more about how Englicious is giving children a taste for English grammar.

UCL has pioneered a radical new way of engaging communities to find greener, healthier and more sustainable ways of living – directly improving air quality and noise pollution for thousands of people.

Converting farm waste into renewable fuel and fertiliser is usually done on a mammoth scale for costly agricultural operations. A UCL entrepreneur has scaled down the technology to make it accessible to all.

Software developed by UCL’s Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) research group enables people with little or no literacy to collect and analyse data about their environment, helping them to monitor illegal poaching, wildlife, and other resources that are important to them.

With ULEZ and other CO2-reducing initiatives kicking in, what about shipping emissions? Dr Tristan Smith, and Dr Julia Schaumeier from UCL’s Energy Institute published innovative data on shipping emissions - a vital step in reducing CO2 emissions in the shipping industry.

An online tool developed at UCL has been helping people with diabetes manage their own health with easily accessible evidence-based information and support.

UCL’s groundbreaking research and development of magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications led to the introduction in 2012 of the world's first licensed nanoparticulate injectable medical device, the Magtrace® tracer, and its detection system, the Sentimag® probe.

UCL scientists are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and space satellites to fight the battle with cancer on Earth.

Feeding and protecting the world with technology, Dr Kenneth Tong of UCL Engineering Sciences is building smart farms to help farmers get the most out of their harvests.

Supported by UCL Innovation & Enterprise, four UCL prizewinning students are aiming to reduce food poverty in Southeast Asia through their social enterprise, Rice Inc.

The discovery of five new commercial paint colours by a UCL Slade School artist has led to five industrial sites in the UK being declared as public works of art.

UCL start-up bio-bean, co-founded by UCL graduate Arthur Kay, turns used coffee grounds into clean energy, helping companies reduce their methane gas and CO2 emissions and preventing thousands of tonnes of waste each year.

UCL researchers have developed an award-winning platform to protect older people in the UK from being targeted by fraudsters.

Despite huge investment aimed at engaging more young people with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), there are notable inequalities in participation in terms of gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic background at every stage of the post-16 education pipeline.