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1. Sensor City moves into Liverpool Science Park ahead of launch

   Liverpool’s Sensor City project has moved into Liverpool Science Park (LSP) ahead of the opening of its official home at Copperas Hill in 2017. Established hi-tech sensor businesses, start-ups and graduate entrepreneurs from across the region will be able to get access to leading experts and world-class research from the field of sensor technologies and learn more about how they can benefit from Sensor City in the run up to the building’s opening in July 2017.

2. Why our brains need touch

   An LJMU academic is leading a Neuroscience Group (SANG) that is revolutionising how we view the basic human sense of touch.

3. National showcase for world class conservation research

   The making of Conservation AI told on film by funding body the Science & Technology Facilities Council

4. Nvidia boosts LJMU AI computing power

   The Faculty of Engineering and Technology acquires three powerful deep learning systems for research into wildlife conservation and public safety

5. Sport playing catch up on women's physiology

   Just 12% of studies focus on women's needs, Liverpool symposium hears

6. LJMU technology to revolutionise sustainable road building

   'Recycled' road materials trialled in Picton, Everton and Belle Vale to reduce city's carbon footprint

7. £1.2m win for LJMU as Science and Technology Facilities Council supports cutting edge research at ARI

   The Astrophysics Research Institute (ARI) has won a £1.2m grant from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), to support cutting-edge research at Liverpool John Moores University

8. Blistering Barnacles! Boat detritus boost for marine conservation

   eDNA from biofouling sponges offers clearer view of marine life

9. PFAS: you can’t smell, see or taste these chemicals, but they are everywhere – and they’re highly toxic to humans

   Dr Patrick Byrne, Reader in Hydrology and Environmental Pollution, writes in The Conversation on the growing dangers of 'forever chemicals' - PFAs - in our water resources.

10. Technicians Survey headline findings

    The headline results from the recent Technicians Survey are now available, along with an outline of our next steps.