"The big problem is that if you’re literally going dollar for dollar, producing rare earth metals, or you’re producing fertiliser, the mining industry has much more money," said Professor Mark Maslin ...

A new type of long-necked plant-eating dinosaur – the largest ever found in Southeast Asia – has been revealed in a study led by researchers at UCL, Mahasarakham University, Suranaree University of ...

“The caring responsibilities many people take on in later life can be a double-edged sword," said Dr Baowen Xue (UCL Epidemiology & Health Care) on accelerated cognitive decline in carers aged 50 and ...

Regularly taking part in arts activities such as reading, listening to music or visiting a gallery or museum may slow the ...

In partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies and the organization’s Government Innovation program, we have developed the Public Sector Capabilities Index, the first global tool designed to assess ...

The side of a mountain slid into an Alaskan fjord last August, producing a tsunami 481 metres high, the second highest ever recorded, according to a new study involving a UCL researcher. The tsunami ...

Two frontier artificial intelligence startups founded by UCL researchers have raised a combined $1.6 billion in seed and early-stage financing, cementing London's position as a global centre for ...

For the first time, the G20 will meet on African soil - at a moment when demands to reshape the global economy are intensifying. Climate instability, biodiversity loss, the rising cost of capital, and ...

Public procurement is a key tool for mission-oriented innovation policies. It has been relevant in industrial policy, but underused as a tool for shaping markets to tackle social and ecological ...

The World Bank’s adoption of missions as an organising framework — through initiatives such as Mission 300 and Mission Water — signals an ambition to operate not only at greater scale, but with more ...

Young children who attend nursery get sick more often than those who don’t, but they will go on to have fewer illnesses during early school years, finds a new review of evidence by a group of ...

This article advances a market-shaping theory of the public sector to address one of the most persistent tensions in public administration: how governments can be both stable and agile, while also ...