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1. Sleeping 'well not long' linked to better health

   First study of restricted sleep patterns and respiratory illness

2. When are pandemics actually over - research?

   Welcome Trust study draws on LJMU psychology scholarship

3. 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

4. Top five ways to make the most of the LJMU Libraries

   Top five ways to make the most of the LJMU Libraries. As a student at LJMU, you have amazing access to three different Library spaces across campus in the Avril Robarts, Aldham Robarts and Student Life Building.

5. Improving animal welfare

   Happy Hamsters: Examining the effect of emotions on cognitive processes in pets

6. Zois Award 2015

   A key member of the Liverpool Telescope Gamma-Ray Burst Team, Professor Andreja Gomboc at the University of Nova Gorica in Slovenia, has received the 2015 Zois Award for her study of Gamma Ray Bursts.

7. Seasonal storminess, should we be concerned?

   Scientists give long-term perspective for unsettled British summers

8. Care experienced girls and young women still at risk of unnecessary criminalisation

   Girls and women who have been through the care system should be diverted away from custodial sentences into community alternatives wherever possible, says a new report published today (Weds 4 May 2022). And the study adds that moves to prevent the criminalisation of girls in care need to be high on the agenda for change.

9. Our ancient relative who “walked like a human, but climbed like an ape”

   New fossils are the missing link that settles a decades old debate proving early hominins used their upper limbs to climb like apes, and their lower limbs to walk like humans

10. Genes reveal how our pelvis evolved for upright walking

    From 3-4 million years ago the pattern points to bipedalism