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1. Bonobos share and share alike

   Bonobos are willing to share meat with animals outside their own family groups. This behaviour was observed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is documented in a new study in Springer’s journal Human Nature

2. Merseyside researchers ask what do your eyebrows say about you?

   Scousebrow or powerbrow? Pluck, pencil, thread or wax? Researchers at LJMU and the University of Liverpool want to hear about your relationship with your eyebrows at a special Brews & Brows event hosted by FACT.

3. Pain Signalling in Humans: A Superfast Highway to the Brain Discovered

   Pain signals can travel as fast as touch signals, according to a new study from researchers at Liverpool John Moores University’s SomAffect Group, Linköping University (Sweden), and the National Institutes of Health (USA).

4. Photo ID – Did it impact on voter rights in Liverpool?

   Early research by Dr Ben Stanford, LJMU School of Law, suggests Government changes could be significant

5. Research supports fears of UK voter suppression

   Scrutiny of pilots for Photo-ID scheme cause for concern for legal experts

6. £2m study to open doors in synthetic biology

   Dr Femi Olorunniji partners University of Chicago in search for 'synthetic biology toolkit'

7. Humanities PhD student awarded for outstanding paper

   Sean Creaney, a lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies at Stockport College, who is currently studying for his PhD in the School of Humanities and Social Science, has just been awarded ‘Outstanding Paper’ in the 2015 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence

8. Discovery of new type of space dust excites astrophysicists

   LJMU works with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on study of early Universe

9. The Conversation: Woman spends 500 days alone in a cave – how extreme isolation can alter your sense of time

   Reader in Experimental Psychology Dr Ruth Ogden writes for The Conversation on the extraordinary experience of Beatriz Flamini.

10. New species of human relative discovered in South African cave

    The discovery of a new species of human relative has shed light on the origins and diversity of our origins.