Astronomers, including Professor Maurizio Salaris from the Astrophysics Research Institute at Liverpool John Moores University, used the Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the globular star cluster NGC 6752 (located 13,000 light-years away in our Milky Way's halo).
Professor Mary Marshall OBE, director for 16 years of the world expert’s in applied dementia research: the Dementia Services Development Centre at the University of Stirling, gave an architectural lecture which explained why certain designs in buildings can be distressing for people with dementia.
Scientists at LJMU are to undertake a pioneering study on children's early number skills which will inform the way young children learn. Read the news story.
More than one in ten men and one in seven women across the globe are now obese, according to the world’s biggest obesity study.
Alexandra, first of many as LJMU targets under-represented community
The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery is marked on 2 December. Dr Scott Foster, Reader in Post Graduate Research Culture, spoke to our Diversity and Inclusion team.
Obesity is increasing more rapidly in the world’s rural areas than in cities, according to a new study of global trends in body-mass index (BMI).
Assisting conservationists in combating primate extinction threats
LJMUs Dr Susan Grant has spent the last decade researching and tracing the history of nursing care in the Soviet Union, with her discoveries now documented in a new publication Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism.
LJMU scientists team up with police, farmers and unions ahead of new legislation on dog attacks