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UCL researchers are investigating how a UK-led team could design and build one of the core instruments on a flagship NASA mission, the Habitable Worlds Observatory, which will search for signs of life on distant planets.

Anti-obesity medication semaglutide may help to prevent heart attacks and other major cardiac events regardless of how much weight people lose while taking the drug, according to a new study led by a UCL researcher.

Professor Philippe Aghion, former Professor of Economics at UCL, has been awarded The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025.

A major UCL-led clinical trial, aiming to transform the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease through a simple blood test, is now welcoming its first participants who will be recruited via memory clinics across the UK.

The first new UK-wide long-term scientific study of babies and child development in a quarter of a century will be led by researchers at the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies.

UCL’s entrepreneurship hub in King’s Cross has supported thousands of staff, students and graduates since it opened its doors in 2015. Over 600 of them have gone on to launch their own startups. Here, on World Entrepreneurs Day, we look back at some of the many success stories.

We are pleased to welcome six new members to UCL Council. Together they bring a wealth of experience across academia, law, public affairs, technology, student leadership, and institutional governance.

Professor Philippe Aghion, former Professor of Economics at UCL, has been awarded The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025.

Two UCL academics have been awarded prestigious 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prizes for their work in Economics and Languages and Literatures.