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1. 'Deviant entrepreneurship' in Merseyside street gangs

   We talk to Dr Robert Hesketh from the School of Justice Studies about his research into drug dealing as a substitute for employment in Merseyside street gangs.

2. Over 200 students graduate at LJMU partner college in Malaysia

   262 students have graduated from YPC International College, one of LJMU’s long term academic partners, at a ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

3. The ‘Green Hell’ of our ancestors

   Tropical rainforests were once thought unliveable but scientists, including Liverpool John Moores University’s Professor Chris Hunt, are showing that our human ancestors lived in these conditions, and in fact the forests themselves are long-term documents of human action.

4. Recycle your old running shoes

   The LJMU Sports Team has joined forces with JOGON on their mission to keep millions of training shoes out of landfill.

5. Gravitational wave science used to search for catastrophic explosion

   Researchers at the Astrophysics Research Institute were among the first to use new gravitational wave science, ahead of the recent announcement by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) that they had made the first direct detection of gravitational waves.

6. Climate change ‘opened and closed’ migratory door through Arabia for 400,000 years

   One of the driest places on Earth has intermittently been a 'green corridor' for human migration due to historical periods of increased rainfall, according to new research.

7. Liverpool enters race for Channel 4 relocation

   Liverpool has announced it is to submit a “compelling bid” to host Channel 4’s new national headquarters.

8. The universe is smoother than the standard model of cosmology suggests – so is the theory broken?

   Ian G McCarthy, Reader in Astrophysics at Liverpool John Moores University writes for The Conversation's Cosmology in Crisis series.

9. 300 children's horizons widened by Christmas Space Lecture

   STARRY-EYED schoolchildren from across Merseyside enjoyed the Liverpool Space Lecture yesterday.

10. Fancy a Pint of Science?

    Academics and postgraduate students from across LJMU are set to share their research as part of the Pint of Science festival.