http://www.irishtimes.com Articles from The Irish Times - Science Today en-ie Copyright 2009, irishtimes.com. The Irish Times 2009-11-19T00:00:00 http://www.irishtimes.com/ http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/rss_logo.gif Search for articles on irishtimes.com keywords http://www.irishtimes.com/search/index.html?rm=listresults http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sciencetoday/2009/1119/1224259098398.html ONE OF the greatest geologists of the 19th century went down in history as the man behind perhaps the greatest biological discovery of all time, writes DICK AHLSTROM Text Science Today TopStories 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098398 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sciencetoday/2009/1119/1224259098371.html WOULDN’T IT be great if there was a single vaccine to cover all flu strains? Imagine the potential. One shot could reduce the global need for yearly jabs and possibly even avoid frantic races to design, manufacture and roll out vaccines in the face of pandemic strains such as the H1N1 virus. Text Science Today TopStories 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098371 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sciencetoday/2009/1119/1224259098359.html NOVEMBER 24th will mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, in which Charles Darwin spelt out the famous theory. The big discovery, made by Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, was not evolution itself, but the mechanism through which it works – natural selection. Some people still challenge the theory, despite it having received massive scientific validation. A recent publication entitled 15 Evolutionary Gemsby H Gee, R Howlett and P Campbell (www.nature.com/nature/newspdf/ Text Science Today TopStories 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098359 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sciencetoday/2009/1119/1224259098417.html The pick of the science news Text Science Today TopStories 2009-11-19T00:00:00 1224259098417