Science »
Medical marvels from spaceMEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS and the detection of bootleg whiskey are not commonly associated with advances in space exploration. However, scientists are starting to apply space-age solutions to more down-to-earth problems.
Ireland's other liberator, of algebraSMALL PRINT: DANIEL O’CONNELL may have been known as The Liberator, but another important figure in 19th-century Ireland earned a similar title – mathematician William Rowan Hamilton (right) is considered to have liberated algebra.
- 'Another morning. I avoided being drowned in melancholy'
IT WAS one of those mornings when nothing seemed to matter except the shortening day, the cloudy sky, and the falling leaves, as I counted my years again, and counted each aching bone in my body again, and fingered the flabby muscles on my arms.
Romney soars. Obama adjusts. Twitter is unruffledWhat do you get if you cross a spirited Republican with a sleepy Democrat? Big Bird flu, if Twitter is anything to go by. INES NOVAVIC on this week’s debate
Health »
- St Michael's warns more cuts will be 'devastating'
208 adults with an intellectual disability live with parents aged 70 or over in Dublin, writes PAUL CULLEN, Health Correspondent
- Reports to expose HSE's accountancy deficits
TWO MAJOR external reports on spending in the health service will be published within the next fortnight, Minister for Health James Reilly has confirmed.
Education »
- 100 things you need to know about college life
Negotiating your way around the first few months of college takes a bit of know-how and nerve. GRÁINNE FALLER, PETER McGUIRE and EOIN CUNNINGHAM have compiled some tips.
I've done the maths: there are too few women in scienceThere is no shortage of female graduates, so why are women under- represented when it comes to university staff? It’s time to tip the gender imbalance, writes Dr AOIFE McLYSAGHT
News Features »
'If I had been elected, it would have been a tectonic shift in Irish politics'In an extract from his new autobiography, ‘A Kick Against the Pricks’, Senator David Norris reflects on the controversial presidential election campaign of 2011, which saw him lose friends, supporters and the election itself but from which he has emerged wiser and with few regrets
Put yourself in her shoes: 'Every woman I know has a story'OF THE THOUSANDS of women who marched to remember Jill Meagher in Melbourne last week, how many must have been thinking, It could have been me?
Environment »
Pine marten kits provide lesson in human interventionANOTHER LIFE: ONE OF THE DUTIES of the National Parks and Wildlife Service, as ordained by the EU’s habitats directive, is to keep a tally of the wildlife killed on the roads, or at least of those mammals whose welfare might concern us. As sightings flow into the biodiversity websitebiology.ie, little flags are hoisted on the excellent interactive maps of its major-domo, Paul Whelan.
Heritage hot spots: History, nature, art, environmentWildfowl Wetlands Trust
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