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A major review of mental health provision in England, led by Professor Peter Fonagy, has prompted Government plans to move towards earlier, needs-led support without long waits for clinical diagnosis.

A team co-led by UCL researchers has identified a new species of extinct crocodile that lived in the Mediterranean Sea about 45 million years ago.

Most young people (58%) believe antidepressants to be effective, particularly if they have ever experienced mental health difficulties, according to polling commissioned from YouGov by UCL.

Super elastic springs developed by researchers at UCL, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) and Durham University, have been used in surgery to treat a rare childhood skull condition.

A new analysis from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment involving UCL researchers has recorded a single particle interaction that is the most compelling hint of dark matter to date.

The first use of artificial intelligence to support a neurosurgeon in real time during live surgery has protected the sight of a man having a brain tumour removed, in a UCL-UCLH collaboration.

A UCL academic internationally recognised for her work studying how cancers evolve, spread and become resistant to treatment has been appointed Cancer Research UK’s (CRUK) new chief clinician.

Professor Dame Celia Hoyles has been awarded the Institute of Mathematics & its Applications Gold Medal in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the field.

Professor Paolo De Coppi (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) has been recognised as an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (ACS).