King's College London

Star Wars at Fifty

This symposium celebrates the 50th anniversary of Star Wars (1977) with nineteen short essays from scholars who discuss its meaning, impact, and legacy. The essays examine the migrations and manifestations of the Star Wars universe across media, including animation, video games,...

A practical framework for exploring non-linear dose–response using adherence data in complex interventions

Abstract Background Randomised trials of complex interventions commonly estimate the effect of being offered treatment using intention-to-treat (ITT) analyses. However, in many settings, particularly psychological therapies, participants adhere to varying amounts of treatment. Es...

Meta-Analysis of ALS Post-Mortem Cerebral Cortex Transcriptome Studies Identifies Robust Shifts in Gene Expression Despite Significant Between-Study Heterogeneity

Background: ALS is characterized by motor neuron failure with potential neurocognitive comorbidity. Cortical neurons, and their support cells, exhibit pathologic features, some of which have been identified in post-mortem transcriptome studies of the cortex from ALS patients and...

Therapeutic-scale CAR-NK microrobots with programmable swarm navigation for targeted solid tumor therapy

An urgent requirement in chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) immune cell therapy [e.g., CAR–natural killer (NK) cells] for solid tumors is to engineer the cells for precise tumor targeting. Meanwhile, medical microrobots can be navigated toward specific target sites using external ma...

Schizophrenia research in 2026: report from the annual meeting of the Schizophrenia International Research Society

Abstract SIRS 2026, held under the theme “Schizophrenia Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence,” brought together researchers, clinicians, and persons with lived experience to take stock of a field whose tools for measuring, predicting, and intervening in psychosis have e...

Electrically driven chiral emission from plasmonic tunnel junctions

Chirality plays a crucial role in a broad range of processes, including light-matter interactions in physics, chemistry, and biology, while quantum tunneling provides a promising mechanism for light generation at the nanoscale. By integrating tunnel junctions with chiral plasmoni...

Embedded Morgan Fingerprints for More Efficient Molecular Property Predictions With Machine Learning

High‐dimensional molecular fingerprints have become a quiet bottleneck for chemical machine learning, where bit collisions in large, chemically diverse datasets and escalating computational costs constrain model discovery. This work introduces the embedded Morgan Fingerprint (eMF...

Impact of COVID ‐19 Restrictions on Estimating Causal Effects: Fluoroquinolones and Tendon Rupture

ABSTRACT Purpose The COVID‐19 pandemic disrupted healthcare services, potentially affecting causal effect estimation using real‐world data. As a case study, we replicated a cohort study using Clinical Practice Research Datalink Aurum to evaluate whether pandemic‐related disruptio...

Characterisation and modelling of lightning strokes as point events in time and space

Abstract. Lightning is a spatio-temporal phenomenon comprised of individual strikes with specific occurrence times and spatial coordinates. This study models and characterises lightning strikes from single thunderstorms, treating each strike as a point event. Utilising real-world...

Smooth muscle ultrastructure – still shrouded in mystery?

Smooth muscle is fundamental to life, as its function underpins circulation, nutrition, and reproduction. However, in contrast to striated muscle, the arrangement of its contractile filaments, composed of myosin and actin, is not readily apparent by light microscopy and, even ele...

Validation of the MSK-HQ in a hand therapy setting

Objectives There is a shortage of clinical tools integrating the individual journey through healthcare, as care providers frequently use diverse Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) that cannot be easily aggregated. The use of a single PROM from primary care into tertiary ca...

How effective are interventions at enhancing preschool children's empathy? A meta-analytic review

Empathy, defined as sharing and understanding others’ emotional experiences, is key to the formation of social groups and plays an important role in children’s social development. While enhancing this skill in early education has been a focus in the field, whether trainings emplo...

Artificial Intelligence for Cardiac Ischemia Detection: A Review of Biosensor, Biomarker, and Imaging Applications

Ischemic heart disease is the leading cause of global mortality, yet accurate and timely detection remains constrained by incomplete signal capture, noise, operator dependence, and imperfect reference standards. Artificial intelligence (AI) may enhance cardiovascular sensing by e...

Understanding cancer nurses’ training, development and career progression needs: insights from the ACCEND workforce survey

The Aspirant Cancer Career and Education Development (ACCEND) programme provides a clear, structured framework for the education, training and career development of the nursing and allied health professions workforce who provide care to people affected by cancer. The programme is...

CD34+ myofibroblasts promote neointima formation in vein grafts by activating ferroptosis-induced smooth muscle cell phenotype switch

Abstract Aim Vein graft (VG) failure due to adverse remodeling and aggressive neointimal hyperplasia is a major complication and key limiting factor for maintaining long-term VG patency. CD34+ cells have been implicated in multiple cardiovascular diseases, but their functional in...

Genetic evidence for the psychosis continuum: polygenic score analysis

Background The psychosis continuum conceptualises psychotic phenomena as existing on a spectrum from subclinical experiences to psychotic disorders. Despite epidemiological and clinical evidence in support of this model, few studies have examined polygenic liability across the se...

Russo-Iranian Tank Cooperation: Between Entrapment and Alliance-Building

The Russo-Iranian tank cooperation has not been the focus of research so far. Yet, this program is a puzzle piece in understanding the future of Russo-Iranian relations. Should Russia decide to help Iran build a modern tank fleet by exporting T-90 tanks and providing technology t...

Improving on the spatial location of geostationary satellite-derived FRP by accounting for parallax effect

When a satellite observes the Earth at an angle, the apparent position of elevated features, such as mountains, clouds or fires in high terrain, can be shifted from their true ground location. This effect, which may be particularly pronounced in the case of geostationary platform...

Heterochronicity shapes brain network formation

Brain network formation unfolds on a nonuniform developmental timetable, with different cortical regions generating connections at different developmental phases. Generative network models (GNMs) aim to uncover the principles underpinning the organization of connectomes by creati...

Popski’s Private Myth: Vladimir Peniakoff, the Libyan Arab Force and the Problem of Memoir Evidence

Abstract Vladimir Peniakoff’s Popski’s Private Army remains one of the most influential published accounts of the Libyan Arab Force (LAF) during the Second World War. This archive-led article reassesses Vladimir Peniakoff as a problematic source for the LAF, showing how his memoi...