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1. Improving lives using local green spaces

   A ground-breaking'Nature4Health' programme delivering healthy activities in local green spaces has changed people’s lives for the better.

2. Scientists to simulate 14 billion years of cosmic evolution

   Astrophysics Research Institute wins time on STFC Supercomputer

3. Astronomers spot oldest ‘dead’ galaxy yet observed

   Dr Renske Smit, of the Astrophysics Research Institute, contributed to research in Nature

4. Cosmic fireworks as distant star ‘squeezed’ by massive black hole

   Daniel Perley and collaborators describe only third Black Hole 'tidal event' on astronomical record in the journal Nature

5. LJMU showcases exciting £30m New Robotic Telescope

   Scientists take project to city industry as partnership builds to launch

6. Does this painting offend you?

   Was Manchester Art Gallery's removal of JW Waterhouse's Hylas and the Nymphs a brilliant conversation-starter or a PC act of censorship? History of Art lecturer Dr Juliet Caroll and students give their thoughts

7. Reaching for the stars

   Sport scientists and astrophysicists prepare school children for demands of space travel

8. Discovery of rotating disc around nascent star 'a special moment'

   Finding from ARI, ESO and Durham University could help us understand how stars are born

9. Researchers on hand at Tim Peake link up

   Researchers from LJMU’s Astrophysics Research Institute and School of Sport and Exercise Sciences supported the live in-flight call with British astronaut Tim Peake, which took place at Liverpool’s World Museum.

10. Reconstructing Ice Age environments

    A study into the feeding behaviour of two extinct European rhinoceros species has revealed an unexpected survival strategy for a mammalian family of the Ice Ages.