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1. 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

2. Tenfold increase in childhood and adolescent obesity in four decades

   World will have more obese children and adolescents than underweight by 2022

3. Which dogs live longest?

   Concern from study of more than 150 breeds

4. Obesity rising faster in rural areas than cities

   Obesity is increasing more rapidly in the world’s rural areas than in cities, according to a new study of global trends in body-mass index (BMI).

5. Study dismisses hypothesized reduction in modern human brain size

   Paleoanthropologists warn against Holocene hypothesis

6. Face of the Great Pharaoh revealed

   Face Lab researchers work with Egyptologists to reconstruct the face of Ramses II

7. Liverpool's conference to debate record drug deaths

   Liverpool hosts LJMU Drug Deaths Conference

8. Continuous Monitoring and Enhancement updates on WebHub

   New and improved Continuous Monitoring and Enhancement (CME) for Module Leaders is now available on Webhub.

9. Professor's shock at destruction of Earth's habitats

   Leading primatologist Serge Wich has expressed his shock after contributing to research which suggests only 3% of the world's land remains ecologically intact with healthy populations of all its original animals.

10. Royal Society funds LJMU partnership with schoolgirl ‘researchers’

    Go-getting school girls hope to springboard into top science careers by undertaking their own research with Liverpool John Moores University.