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The number of children and young people accessing NHS-funded mental health services has increased by nearly 80,000 in the past year, sparking renewed concern over a system already under strain.

As artificial intelligence and data centers demand more power from the grid, Carnegie Mellon University is improving a key technology at the heart of America's energy future - batteries.

A large number of University of Limerick researchers have been listed among the World's Top 2% Scientists.

As new  Statistics Canada data  reveals that two-thirds of Canadians are considered overweight or obese, researchers are urging the public and policymakers to rethink how we define and measure health - starting with one of the most used metrics - the body mass index (BMI).

Students from less wealthy backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a language to GCSE is treated as optional - and not necessarily strongly encouraged - new research shows. The University of Cambridge study of 615 state schools in England found that while socio-economic background does not have a significant impact on students' desire to study languages, poorer students are disproportionately concentrated in schools that give languages lower priority.

National Weather Service used Northern Tornadoes Project study to re-categorize major severe storm event After weeks of engineering analysis, informed largely by a new technique developed by Western'

Our researchers are helping young people discover the overlooked stories of Black British communities through art, history and literature.

Algae may call to mind discoloured pool water or the green film floating to the top of your rain barrel , b they're much more than a summertime nuisance.

New detector concept uses cutting-edge optical cavity and atomic clock technologies to sense gravitational waves in the elusive milli-Hertz frequency band. Scientists have unveiled a new approach to detecting gravitational waves in the milli-Hertz frequency range, providing access to astrophysical and cosmological phenomena that are not detectable with current instruments.

COVID-19 caused a huge dip in scientific publications in the Netherlands, but female researchers were not hit harder than their male colleagues.

An international team, including scientists from the University of Fribourg, has succeeded in extracting two ice cores over 100 metres long from a glacier in Tajikistan. A real technical and logistical feat at an altitude of 5,800 metres. The two-week expedition, which began on September 24, aims to safeguard several millennia of climatic history.

Researchers at McGill's Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP) have launched a first-of-its-kind guide to help Canadian health-care providers offer more inclusive, respectful and affirming care to intersex adults.

Analysis focused on Global South considers multiple scenarios, underscores urgent need for planning Sea level rise could put more than 100 million buildings across the Global South at risk of regular

Women with an inherited risk of developing ovarian cancer because they have the so-called Angelina Jolie gene alteration can now be tested on the NHS thanks to UCL research.

Dr Elizabeth Rosser (UCL Division of Medicine) explores the symptoms, complications and treatments for lupus, an autoimmune disease which celebrity Selena Gomez suffers from as well as an estimated five million people worldwide.

Blast fishing causes long-lasting damage to coral reefs, finds new research co-led by former UCL researcher Satrio Hani Samudra (UCL Division of Biosciences).

Although most of their work is driven by numbers and equations, economists are inherently curious about the peculiarities of human behavior-especially when it comes to the forces that affect buying and selling.

An AI-powered hearing test is reliably able to check your hearing on a computer or smart phone without clinical supervision according to a study by University of Manchester researchers.

Medical trainees are particularly vulnerable to sexual abuse and are often shut down or silenced when they do report incidents, finds ground-breaking research led by the Universities of Glasgow and Dundee. The study, carried out by Professor Rosalind Searle from University of Glasgow's Adam Smith Business School, and Lewis Garippa from the University of Dundee, follows a surgical trainee's sexual harassment and abuse (SHA) reporting journey.

The DRD1 Gaseous Detectors School 2025 was held at the University of Bonn for the first time As part of the DRD1 Gaseous Detectors School 2025, twenty-five young researchers from around the world vis

Detect influenza viruses quickly and easily with chewing gum or a lollipop: researchers from Würzburg, Braunschweig and Cologne demonstrate with a new diagnostic tool how this works.

AI chatbots are taking over writing for students and researchers. Linguist Giorgio Iemmolo explains what we are jeopardising in the interest of efficiency gains.

Juli Peretó and Pablo Carbonell, researchers at the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), a joint centre of the University of Valencia (UV) and the Spanish National Research Council (C

Climate policy Researchers have asked over 400 international experts which climate policies work best.

The fossil of a tiny fish found in southwestern Alberta provides new insight into the origin and evolution of otophysans, the supergroup of fish that includes catfish, carp and tetras, which today account for two-thirds of all freshwater species.

Fear of the fabled 'big bad wolf' has dominated the public perception of wolves for millennia and strongly influences current debates concerning human-wildlife conflict.