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1. Birth trauma may increase risk of harmful drinking

   First UK study to look at psychological birth trauma and long-term effects on coping with drink

2. Student teachers learn together with families seeking asylum in Toxteth

   A group of student teachers are working with families seeking asylum in Liverpool to provide education sessions for children without a place at school.

3. Students use music to improve lives of people with dementia

   More than 200 students undergo practical training to deliver Playlist For Life treatment in care settings

4. Solving the evolutionary puzzle of menopause

   The evolution of the menopause was ‘kick-started’ by a fluke of nature, but then boosted by the tendency for sons and grandsons to remain living close to home, a new study by Liverpool scientists suggests.

5. Scientists discover the dawn of spoken language evolution

   Why did our ancestors combine a consonant with a vowel to make up the first word? Scientists from several institutes have found some clues to the answer.

6. Researchers reveal new findings into greatest scientific fraud

   A new analysis of the famous Piltdown Man forgeries, conducted by LJMU researchers, points the finger of suspicion even more firmly at their discoverer, Charles Dawson. The Piltdown Man scandal is arguably the greatest scientific fraud ever perpetrated in the UK, with fake fossils being claimed as evidence of our earliest ancestor.

7. LJMU train 40 Mersey Care matrons and nurses in anticipatory and advanced care planning

   Helping patients across Merseyside to be involved in the planning of their future treatment and care.

8. Sport science programmes promote greater diversity

   "We have a chicken and egg situation, which is unsustainable"

9. Cave bears may have been adapting to survive the ice age

   Recent research published in Quaternary Science Reviews on the long extinct cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) has found their attempt to adapt to the growing harshness of the last ice age before their extinction.

10. Astronomers catch Tatooine multiple star system as it forms

    For the first time astronomers, including Dr Richard Parker, of the Astrophysics Research Institute at LJMU, have caught a multiple-star system as it is created, and their observations are providing new insight into how such systems, and possibly the solar system, are formed. The amazing images taken from a series of telescopes on Earth show clouds of gas which are in the process of developing into stars.