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1. Industry trip wins Data Science students €25,000

   Young research students who won a major European data science competition have shared a prize of 50,000!

2. Research supports fears of UK voter suppression

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

3. Life in the fast lane: are digital technologies harming our quality of life?

   A new 1.7m multinational research project - TIMED - is led by LJMUs Dr Ruth Ogden, who shared her thoughts with us.

4. Global impact for publication on lack of exercise under ‘lockdown’

   Research which highlights changes to the human body during lockdown and other sedentary situations is having a huge impact among scientists worldwide.

5. Self-harm in women in prison 'deeply concerning' - study

   Women in prison who have experienced the care system as children report using self-harm as a way to communicate and stop the pain in their lives, says new research from LJMU and Lancaster and Bristol universities.

6. Tenfold increase in childhood and adolescent obesity in four decades

   World will have more obese children and adolescents than underweight by 2022

7. Civil engineers offer solution to Bangladesh's toxic construction industry

   A NOVEL brick made from industrial waste has the potential to make a positive environmental impact and create 'clean jobs' in Bangladesh and elsewhere.

8. Machines that 'learn how to learn'

   Researchers have developed a new approach to machine learning that mimics humans ability to learn how to learn.

9. Professor's shock at destruction of Earth's habitats

   Leading primatologist Serge Wich has expressed his shock after contributing to research which suggests only 3% of the world's land remains ecologically intact with healthy populations of all its original animals.

10. £1million study to aid fight against malaria

    LJMU and LSTM to investigate insecticide resistance in disease-spreading mosquitoes