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1. Applying science to catch country criminals

   Forensic Research Institute partners Police Scotland and the Hutton to tackle wind farm attacks.

2. Size really does matter! Professor Satya Sarker talks nanomedicine.

   Professor Satya Sarker, Director of the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, has published a new book on nanomedicine. We asked him about advances in this exciting field of science which actually dates back to Asia, 2,500 years ago.

3. Identifying dinosaurs from their footprints is difficult – but AI can help

   Can AI help us identify dinosaurs from their fossilised footprints, asks Dr Paige dePolo, lecturer in vertebrate biology, writing in The Conversation.

4. Our ancient relative who “walked like a human, but climbed like an ape”

   New fossils are the missing link that settles a decades old debate proving early hominins used their upper limbs to climb like apes, and their lower limbs to walk like humans

5. Can grass help solve the cleaner energy crisis?

   Government calls on expertise of LJMU plant biologist for energy solution

6. Genes reveal how our pelvis evolved for upright walking

   From 3-4 million years ago the pattern points to bipedalism

7. Experts advising world's governments on 'cleaner' mining

   Advising governments and industry on best, or better practices, is a vital job carried out by scientists such as Patrick Byrne of LJMU.

8. Ecologists track rare bird for BBC Springwatch

   Research scientists join National Trust to conserve under-threat Pied Flycatchers

9. World’s rarest great ape virtually wiped out in a century

   The survival of the worlds rarest great ape the Tapanuli Orangutan is hanging in the balance, according to a team of scientists.

10. Do birds walk like dinosaurs?

    Major LJMU research study looks at evolutionary changes in animal and bird movement.