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A new drug combination could significantly delay the progression of a life-threatening form of prostate cancer in men with specific genetic mutations, finds a major international trial led by UCL researchers. The Phase III AMPLITUDE trial, published in Nature Medicine , tested the addition of niraparib, a type of targeted cancer drug known as a PARP inhibitor 1 , to the standard treatment of abiraterone acetate and prednisone (AAP).

For the first time, the OHCAO team at University of Warwick have published national data for children who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, underscoring urgent need for CPR training.

In Switzerland, 88.3% of wolves' diet consists of wild animals, particularly deer, and 11.7% of livestock, mainly sheep.

An international study led by Nikola Vladic and Cihan Ay from the Department of Medicine I (Division of Hematology and Hemostaseology, MedUni Vienna) shows that artificial intelligence (AI) language

The demise of the rules-based international order is jeopardising Switzerland's success model, says security expert Daniel Möckli.

Image captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the remains of a Type Ia supernova in a neighbouring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, 160,000 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard. A new study co-led by the University of Oxford and Google Cloud has shown how general-purpose AI can accurately classify real changes in the night sky - such as an exploding star, a black hole tearing apart a passing star, or a fast-moving asteroid - and explain its reasoning, without the need for complex training.

A study by the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the University of Valencia reveals that constructed wetlands significantly m

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