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1. Face Lab expertise 'demasks the dead'

   LJMU Face Lab's latest project ventures into the extraordinary funerary practice of fusing masks to the faces of the dead, practised by many pre-Columbian peoples of South America.

2. 'Diatom Detectives' to help solve crime

   Algae's unique 'fingerprint' is powerful tool in crime fighting

3. Alcohol deaths in the UK rose to record level in 2021

   Harry Sumnall, Professor of Substance Abuse, LJMU and Ian Hamilton, Honorary Fellow, University of York write in The Conversation

4. Paranormal beliefs associated with coping less well

   Psychologists Dr Andrew Denovan and Professor Neil Dagnall find notable behavioural differences between New Age and traditional paranormal beliefs.

5. Anthropologists play down links between modern humans and Denisovans

   An anthropologist at Liverpool John Moores University and other researchers have played down links between modern Asian physiology and a recently discovered early human species, Denisova hominins.

6. Mystery of the world's largest antlers

   Evolution 'complicated' says new study which overrules Gould's principle of size allometry

7. Great Apes ‘outnumbered 200 to 1’ by 2050 in own feeding grounds

   Research review in Frontiers in Conservation Science predicts habitats increasingly overrun by farmers

8. 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.

9. 'Exercise as medicine' of most benefit to disadvantaged

   Analysis by LJMU and partners finds rehab improves life after heart attacks and angina

10. LJMU research reveals the size and shape of voluntary and community activity across the Liverpool City Region for the first time.

    Voluntary sector contributes £900m to Liverpool city region economy