“This compromise fundamentally ignores the needs of some of the most vulnerable countries… There is a better compromise available,” said Professor Tristan Smith (UCL Bartlett School of Environment, ...

The earthquake’s epicentre is “beneath Mandalay, which is Myanmar’s second largest city, home to about 1.5 million people… This is pretty much the worst-case scenario that we think of as earthquake ...

"The idea that humans evolved to live in just one form of society almost all the time is almost certainly wrong," said Professor David Wengrow (UCL Institute of Archaeology) on the flexibility in ...

The Survey of English Usage carries out research in English language Corpus Linguistics. From its inception, the Survey gathered samples of naturally-occurring language for the purposes of description ...

The main aim of the SuPPL project was to identify any language used in relation to pregnancy loss in the UK that is particularly objectionable to people with lived experience of pregnancy loss and, ...

“This is probably the biggest earthquake on the Myanmar mainland in three quarters of a century, and a combination of size and very shallow depth will maximise the chances of damage,” said Professor ...

Dr Jennifer Hall (UCL EGA Institute for Women’s Health) says that new research finds that the post-natal period in women’s bodies is longer than assumed, running counter to societal expectations that ...

The Constitution Unit has today released a new report, Reform of Stormont: Options for Discussion, by Conor Kelly, Alan Renwick and Alan Whysall. While the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement is rightly ...

“It is highly likely that build quality will generally not be high enough to survive this level of shaking, and casualty numbers will almost certainly climb significantly as more becomes known,” said ...

Professor John Butterworth and Professor Ruben Saakyan (both UCL Physics & Astronomy) weigh in on the different possible future plans for a next-generation particle accelerator to replace the Large ...

“The usual mantra is that earthquakes don’t kill people, collapsing infrastructure does. Governments are responsible for planning regulations and building codes,” said Professor Ilan Kelman (UCL Risk ...

Before we could begin this research, we had to decide what to call it. We set out to show how fraught it can be to choose words to refer to the experience of a baby dying during pregnancy. It was ...