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Mental health problems such as worries, low mood and behaviour problems are more common in children and young people with brain conditions such as epilepsy, than in the general population – with up to 60% of those with epilepsy having…

A new study, published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM, studied 243 pregnant women who had been referred to a preterm birth surveillance clinic at University College London Hospital between January 2017 to April…

The study, carried out by the Dark Energy Survey collaboration, doubled the precision at which key characteristics of the Universe, including the overall density of dark energy, could be inferred from the map. This increased precision…

Currently, it takes around 10 years for new treatments to be studied in large-scale trials. However, the new research showed that the length of time a man lives without his cancer progressing – known as progression-free survival –…

The new Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) centres will address key challenges in areas including net zero, AI, defence and security, healthcare and quantum technologies. The centres, among 65 announced by the…

The study, published in Nature, is the first to chart “indirect economic losses” from climate change on global supply chains that will affect regions that would have been less affected by projected warming temperatures. These previously…

The study, published in the journal Tobacco Control and part-funded by Cancer Research UK, looked at survey responses from 66,868 adults in England, Wales and Scotland between October 2020, five months after the ban was introduced, and…

The new research, published in Royal Society Open Science, found that the most massive species of redwood trees, Sequoiadendron giganteum, known as the giant sequoia, can potentially pull an average of 85 kilograms of carbon out of the…

The research, published in three new papers in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, brings together observations of more than 80 young stars that might have planets forming around them, providing astronomers with a wealth of data and…

The study, published in The Lancet to mark World Kidney Day, draws on the largest rare kidney disease dataset ever created. It found that patients with rare kidney diseases are 28 times more likely to experience kidney failure than those…