A recent MIT study claims that total combustion emissions in the US account for about 200,000 premature deaths per year. This enormous figure is not unique. In the UK, roughly 29,000 premature deaths are…
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The motive and timing of the alleged chemical attack last week in Damascus appear strange, but Western powers including the US, UK and France, backed by other regional players including Turkey now seem…
This bank holiday weekend, London celebrates yet another glorious Notting Hill Carnival. Relatively few of the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of revellers enjoying the festivities appreciate the…
Contaminated during the surrounding area’s history of mining, the River Hayle in Cornwall contains metals including copper, zinc, nickel and cadmium at levels that can kill brown trout, a particularly…
Jacob Rees-Mogg, old-Etonian Conservative MP for North East Somerset, rightly feels “very silly”. Last week it was revealed on the BBC’s Newsnight program that Rees-Mogg had been the guest of honour at…
As A-level results day approaches, students and universities alike are gearing up for the most frantic period in the academic year - the short window during which results are issued and offers of places…
As a teenager I observed a strange phenomenon. On awakening from an unusually vivid dream, I would often find that the moon was full. And as the silvery light prevailed on subsequent nights, my nocturnal…
People are wildly wrong when we ask them about many aspects of life in Britain, as shown in a new survey by Ipsos MORI for the Royal Statistical Society and King’s College London. We think one in four…
In a memorandum of understanding signed this week, Imperial College London signed up to working with controversial communications technology firm Huawei. The two have set plans in motion to run a joint…
Over the past 25 years we have seen an explosion in top-level clinical trials in China. But only a tiny proportion of that research is available on the main databases used by doctors and researchers in…
A violent attack by someone who is mentally ill quickly grabs the headlines. And it’s usually implied that mental illnesses are a preventable cause of violent crime. Tackle that and we can all sleep safer…
It has been reported that Michael Adebolajo, one of the two suspects in the case of the Woolwich murder of a British soldier on Wednesday, is a Muslim convert. There are significant issues regarding the…
How much do we really spend on research and development, and how does it vary internationally? To provide some context for this science funding debate, the Scienceogram team has broken down spending across…
Since it was first published in 1952, the DSM has been the has been the diagnostic bible for many psychiatrists. Each time the manual is updated, new conditions are introduced, often amid much controversy…
DSM-5, the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, was published in the US at the weekend. Given that not even its most passionate supporters would…
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Professor of Early Intervention in Mental Health, King's College London
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Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, King's College London
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Senior Lecturer in the Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, King's College London
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Senior Lecturer and Director of Headache Research, Consultant clinical scientist; King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, King's College London
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Researcher, Department of War Studies, King's College London
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Senior Lecturer, Art and Public Engagement, King's College London
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Senior Lecturer in American Studies, King's College London
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Professor in Modern History and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, King's College London
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Informatics, King's College London
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PhD Candidate in the Department of War Studies, King's College London
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Lecturer in Geography, King's College London
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Research and Knowledge Transfer Manager, Department of War Studies and the Centre for Science and Security Studies, King's College London
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Head of Research at Institute of Alcohol Studies, Visiting Researcher, King's College London
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Consultant in Hydrology and Water Resources, Kenya citizen, Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London
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Professor of Robotics, Head of Centre for Robotics Research, King's College London
