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# science - Sunday 19 May, 2013
USA on alert of invasion… from cicadas
The cricket-like insects are overdue an invasion after 17 years – and have been seen amassing in two east coast states.
# science - Thursday 16 May, 2013
Do you like to tell a fib? Don’t worry, it’s part of evolution
Trinity College scientists have found that humans’ ability to lie to each other may have evolved because of our cooperative nature.
Cutting edge technologies in healthcare will increase efficiency
Tablet devices for nurses and electronic medical records – just some of the ideas showcased at a digital healthcare gathering in Dublin yesterday.
# science - Monday 13 May, 2013
# science - Sunday 12 May, 2013
Weird Wide Web: Pizza, glass tweets, and a text pest
All of your essential tech and social media news for the week in one byte-sized portion.
# science - Thursday 9 May, 2013
How insects’ wings help engineers…
Insects are one of the most successful groups of animals…so what can we learn from them?
# science - Monday 6 May, 2013
Drugged Spiders Spinning Webs Archive Experiment of the Day
This is what happens to their spinning skills when they light up a doobie.
# science - Sunday 5 May, 2013
Why some people (and mice) can eat a lot and stay skinny
It may be in the genes – but you don’t give up the exercise or healthy eating just yet…
# science - Saturday 4 May, 2013
‘Budding psychopaths’ can be identified ‘by how they react to people in pain’
A study has found that children who don’t react the same as other people when they see photos of people in pain may be at risk of developing psychopathy as adults.
# science - Sunday 28 April, 2013
NASA spots meteors crashing into Saturn’s rings for first time
Saturn is now the only place besides Earth, the moon and Jupiter where scientists have been able to observe meteor impacts as they occur.
# science - Tuesday 23 April, 2013
Here’s why you might be crying this Tuesday morning
We’re talking science here, not that you had a big weekend.
# science - Monday 15 April, 2013
The 9 at 9: Monday
Good morning! Here are the nine things you need to know as you kick off your Monday.
# science - Saturday 13 April, 2013
Hey lazybones, good news: scientists say laziness could be genetic
It’s not you, it’s your genes…
# science - Thursday 11 April, 2013
The sun emitted its biggest flare of 2013 today
NASA has all the science behind the phenomenon.
# science - Wednesday 10 April, 2013
Test-tube baby pioneer Robert Edwards dies
Robert Edwards pioneered in vitro fertilisation and was awarded the nobel prize in 2010, three decades after the birth of the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, in 1978.
Explainer: Why we grunt at the gym
Is it biology or all in your head?
# science - Saturday 30 March, 2013
New study finds no link between vaccines and autism
A US study tries to dispel parents’ fears about ‘too many vaccines’.
# science - Sunday 24 March, 2013
Scientists want to bring 22 animals back from extinction
No, seriously.
# science - Monday 18 March, 2013
Demand for exotic pets pushes species to brink
For every endangered animal in a pet shop or home – ten others could have died during capture or transportation.
What causes a sinkhole?
And why are some more slow-moving than others?
# science - Saturday 16 March, 2013
This is what happens in your brain when you fancy someone
You can blame your medial prefrontal cortex. It’s so romantic.
# science - Saturday 9 March, 2013
Science, business and agriculture courses increase in CAO popularity
However teaching, medicine and arts have all dropped.
# science - Sunday 3 March, 2013
Remembering the ‘silent teachers’, those who gave their bodies to science
“She might be gone but think of all the good she will still do” – Gretta Farrell remembers her mother Teresa.
# science - Saturday 16 February, 2013
The history of the two-headed dog experiment
The stuffed dog toured Germany for the past two years but is now back in Riga’s Museum of History of Medicine. Here’s its full story.
# science - Sunday 10 February, 2013
A year in robotic legs: paralysed adventurer hits new milestone
Mark Pollock has spent a year gathering data on how robotic exoskeleton is working on his body – and he hopes scientists might get on board for formal study.
# science - Thursday 7 February, 2013
Supersonic skydiver fell faster than THOUGHT
Final data from Felix Baumgartner jump shows that he dropped faster than the speed of a human thought…
# science - Monday 4 February, 2013
VIDEO: Here’s what happens when you serve a ping pong ball at 900mph
Hint: it’s not returnable.
# science - Wednesday 30 January, 2013
Woman becomes world’s first to give birth after heart transplant
The creation of extra blood, and the drugs needed to stop a transplant being rejected, usually make it impossible.
# science - Monday 28 January, 2013
Good news: Irish scientists to play key role in giant €1 billion project
The largest ever research project funded in the history of the EU was announced this morning.
# science - Sunday 27 January, 2013
# science - Friday 25 January, 2013
€60m investment released for pioneering research projects
Government funding of €60 million will support 85 research projects in areas like science, technology and mathematics.
# science - Thursday 24 January, 2013
19 lives saved since introduction of defibrillators at Dublin Airport
One 85-year-old man and his family return to thank crew for saving his life after a cardiac arrest last September.
Research chimpanzees to be ‘retired’ in the US
A ‘Chimp Haven’ has been constructed to house the chimps as only 50 to be left in studies and “invasive” research to be phased out.
Dublin to be studied in its capacity as a ‘smart city’
€2.3m grant will fund five years of research into how technology influences life in the capital.
# science - Sunday 20 January, 2013
Weird Wide Web: the week in online oddities
The internet’s best offerings in social media, tech and science news.
# science - Sunday 13 January, 2013
13 major global risks that used to be the stuff of science fiction
Orbital debris, persistent extreme weather, digital meltdown, geomagnetic storms… the World Economic Forum considers some risky business.
# science - Sunday 6 January, 2013
Weird Wide Web: the week in online oddities
The internet’s best offerings in social media, tech and science news.
# science - Saturday 5 January, 2013
Hot chocolate tastes better in an orange cup
Does it matter what colour the cup, as long as the stuff inside is liquid heaven? Apparently, yes.
# science - Friday 4 January, 2013
Scientists look at weather to predict illness outbreaks
Data from various weather events beginning to help predict conditions in which a disease will flourish.
# science - Wednesday 2 January, 2013
Here’s when you reach the saddest point in your life
A behavioural economist has analysed data in 72 countries, coming up with an average for when people are least content with life in each.
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