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1. Best places to visit in Liverpool

   We asked our LJMU community for their top spot across the city. Here are their favourites...

2. LJMU train 40 Mersey Care matrons and nurses in anticipatory and advanced care planning

   Helping patients across Merseyside to be involved in the planning of their future treatment and care.

3. environment, sustainability, climate, people and planet

   LJMU has been ranked as one of the best performing universities in the North West for environmental and ethical performance.

4. Covid-19: Antiviral therapeutics from herbs

   Research finds natural proteins block SARS-CoV-2 from entering human cells

5. Update on university coronavirus recovery plans

   We are working to reassure everyone at LJMU about the measures we are putting in place to protect all of our staff and students.

6. Tyrannosaurus or Hadrosaur: How well can AI identify dinosaur footprints?

   Artificial intelligence comes out on top in machine v human challenge to identify fossil dinosaur tracks

7. New study suggests explanations for usage of plesiosaurs’ long necks

   Plesiosaurs are an extinct group of marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs who are famous for their long necks. The effect of such long necks on how these animals swam is a mystery but now computer simulations are helping LJMU scientists understand what would happen if a plesiosaur turned its head while swimming.

8. Young chimpanzees reconcile through play

   Researchers at LJMU's School of Natural Sciences and Psychology have discovered for the first time that, unlike their adult counterparts who kiss and embrace immediately after a fight, young chimpanzees reconcile through play.

9. Energy from plants - how hybrids can boost biomass production

   Plant biologists show methods to improve Miscanthus hybrids to optimise seed production

10. Galaxies are "wasteful" and retain fewer materials needed to build stars and planets, says new study

    Galaxies “waste” large amounts of heavy elements they generate via star formation by ejecting them up to a million light years away