Research news

Pollinating insects such as bees, butterflies, hoverflies and wasps, interact more with plants at well-managed farmland ponds than those that are severely overgrown by trees, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

After Arctic sea ice was blown into warm waters over winter, it’s likely that 2021 will set a new record for the lowest perennial ice cover, says PhD student Robbie Mallett (UCL Earth Sciences).

Record-breaking winter winds have blown large swathes of old Arctic sea ice into warmer waters, putting them at high risk of melting this summer, according to a new study by a UCL-led research team.

A UCL-led dementia prevention programme which helped older adults make lifestyle changes to support their health in a pilot study, is now recruiting hundreds of people with memory problems to take part.

This week we meet Dr Onyaglanu Idoko, Lecturer and Co-Programme Leader at the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity. Here, she chats to us about working on a new project on entrepreneurial resilience and recovery as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

When under stress, people reach undesirable conclusions based on weaker evidence than when they are relaxed, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

Light to moderate drinking may be associated with a decreased risk of heart attack, stroke, angina or death among those with cardiovascular disease, finds a new study led by a UCL researcher.

UCL researchers are leading the largest clinical trial on long Covid to date, involving over 4,500 people, as well as a study seeking to understand and treat the cognitive impairment associated with the condition, commonly known as brain fog.

A new UCL-led project deploying 50 highly sensitive seismometers on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean aims to fix a gap in our understanding of powerful movements deep within Earth’s interior.

The arrival of plants on land about 400 million years ago may have changed the way the Earth naturally regulates its own climate, according to a new study led by researchers at UCL and Yale.

Patients who experience long Covid have reported more than 200 symptoms across 10 organ systems*, in the largest international study of ‘long-haulers’ to date, led by UCL scientists together with a patient-led research collaborative.

Witness accounts given to police ought to be recorded by body-worn video cameras rather than summarised in written statements, according to a new report by criminal law experts at UCL and the University of Melbourne.

A research team co-led by UCL has solved a decades-old mystery as to how Jupiter produces a spectacular burst of X-rays every few minutes.

The risk of severe illness and death from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, is extremely low in children and teenagers, according to the most comprehensive analyses of public health data, co-led by researchers at UCL.

This week we meet Professor Ruben Saakyan, experimental particle physicist at the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Here, he chats to us about his new project in which he will be using recent breakthroughs in quantum technologies to attempt to weigh the neutrino particle.