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There needs to be a concerted effort to ensure all young people are protected against HPV, say Professor Helen Bedford (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) alongside Professor Carol Dezateux and Nicola Firman (both Queen Mary University of London).

Bewildered by the talks? Try viewing them as a struggle among three blocs of countries, companies and protest movements, says Professor Simon Lewis (UCL Geography).

Catastrophe is not foretold and we are freer to act than we think in the face of climate change, writes Professor David Wengrow (UCL Institute of Archaeology).

The Covid pandemic has proved that health systems are capable of making drastic changes when the need arises.

Immune cell patterns have been discovered within tumours that can help predict if patients with kidney cancer will respond to immunotherapy, as part of a study co-led by researchers at UCL, the Francis Crick Institute and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.

Climate experts from across UCL are at the COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow as observers and delegation members, with teams of academics also monitoring and providing expert commentary from London.

This week we meet Lola Solebo, Clinical Academic at the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Chair of the GOS ICH Race Equity Group.

Students from across UCL have agreed seven resolutions to tackle climate change after a marathon event emulating proceedings at the UN COP26 summit starting in Glasgow next week.

It's no longer sufficient just to show that child slavery practices are happening, campaigners need to invest time and effort to truly understand the processes and conditions that create them, says Dr Michael Odijie (UCL History).

Space scientists and engineers from UCL and the University of Leicester have delivered a key component for SMILE, a new space mission studying the impact of solar wind on the Earth's magnetic environment.

World-leading sustainability research from UCL and Cambridge University has been used to create technology which could cut CO2 emissions in the global cement industry and other energy-intensive trades.

The pandemic has shown the extent to which families rely on schools for 'basic needs' such as access to an adequate supply of food and help in accessing other support services, highlights new UCL research.

Sign up for hybrid Town Hall on Monday 1 November 2021, 2.30-3.30 with President & Provost, Dr Michael Spence.

Professor Henrietta Moore (UCL Institute for Global Prosperity) explains why GDP as a measure of prosperity is inadequate.

A painting of a naked woman by Pablo Picasso that has been hidden beneath one of his 'Blue Period' masterpieces for more than a century, has been recreated by UCL scientists using a combination of X-rays, AI and 3D-printing. PhD researchers Anthony Bourached (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) and George Cann (UCL Space and Climate Physics) have developed a five-step technology to reproduce art works, that have been painted over.

A new grading system to monitor complications during clinical trials involving pregnant women, which will significantly improve their safety, has been co-developed by UCL researchers and an internati