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1. Beatles' similarities revealed

   A new exhibition at LJMU’s John Lennon Art and Design Building creates an ‘average’ face of The Beatles, and highlights the similarities of the Fab Four.

2. "Girls are good enough" – says LJMU student fighting for more women to enter STEM professions

   The UK's percentage of female engineers in the UK is far lower than other developed countries, according to a recent report by the Royal Academy of Engineering, with women only making up a small fraction of the nation's engineering graduates.

3. Shaping global business sustainability

   According to a new study, collaboration between business and academia can identify the most urgent research priorities to ensure the sustainability of food, energy, water and the environment. This is

4. The explosive times that led Liverpool to trade superpower

   As we approach the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5 November 1605), Liverpool John Moores University research allows us to take a look at the overall impact of the Stuart-era (1603-1714) on Liverpool.

5. Future-proofing history

   Liverpool workers’ memories of the Elder Dempster Lines, the UK’s largest shipping group trading between Western Europe and West Africa, have been recorded and captured as part of an online archive created by Liverpool John Moores University.

6. The ‘Green Hell’ of our ancestors

   Tropical rainforests were once thought unliveable but scientists, including Liverpool John Moores University’s Professor Chris Hunt, are showing that our human ancestors lived in these conditions, and in fact the forests themselves are long-term documents of human action.

7. Were sauropods swimmers or walkers?

   An international team of scientists, led by the China University of Geosciences in Beijing and including palaeontologists from the Liverpool John Moores University, has shed new light on some unusual dinosaur tracks from northern China. The tracks appear to have been made by four-legged sauropod dinosaurs yet only two of their feet have left prints behind.

8. Solving the evolutionary puzzle of menopause

   The evolution of the menopause was ‘kick-started’ by a fluke of nature, but then boosted by the tendency for sons and grandsons to remain living close to home, a new study by Liverpool scientists suggests.

9. FAMELab2016 regional heat winner

   Marine Biogeochemistry PhD student Emma-Lou Smith has won the regional heat of FAMElab2016, held at LJMU.

10. Support for Young Adult Carers

    On national Young Carers Awareness Day, LJMU announced an official package of specialised support to ensure young carers are able to benefit from the advantages a university education can provide.