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1. Bringing the Universe down to Earth

   Astrophysicists engage public through RHS gold garden and £100k STEMM outreach project

2. Turner Prize 2015 winners take up unique position at School of Art and Design

   Turner Prize 2015 winners are taking up a unique ‘virtuoso’ position at LJMU’s School of Art and Design, which aims to partner the School with high profile creative artists who will enhance the student experience and promote Liverpool’s global profile within popular culture.

3. How the brain controls our sense of touch

   MRC Funded grant to offer most detailed insight yet

4. New phase of biochemical technology

   Blood-monitoring medical solution could change healthcare forever

5. World education for safe water resources

   Professor Rafid Al Khaddar recently became the 29th President of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM).

6. Honours for Archbishop of Canterbury

   The Most Reverend Justin Welby to receive Honorary Fellowship

7. The evolution of large-bodied dinosaurs

   Scientists from LJMU, working with external researchers, have developed examine the evolutionary history of sauropod dinosaurs using computer models.

8. More Sumatran orangutans found in the wild than expected

   Researchers have discovered c.14,600 animals still live in the wild today - 8,000 more than expected.

9. LJMU launches 'eco houses' to help reduce carbon emissions from UK housing stock

   First purpose-built, multi-unit housing test facility in the North will be used by innovation and construction SMEs to address sustainability challenges of homes built over the last 100 years.

10. Researchers prove herbivore mammals do have bigger bellies

    Dr Carlo Meloro from Liverpool John Moores University, with a team of European scientists, has investigated the volumes of body cavities in a large range of extant and fossil tetrapods and found that plant feeding animals have bigger bellies than their carnivore counterparts.