Research Lives: Prof Ken Murphy, professor of pathology & immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis
French surgeon says he has performed a second face transplant on the patient
What is not widely known is the significant Irish connections to probably the greatest scientific discovery of the 20th Century
Access Science: The maritime and astronomy museums, Greenwich, London
Crowd-sourced science moves to new level with the help of artificial intelligence
That’s Maths: Flight planners, astronomers and satnav all rely on geodesics and the effect of Earth’s bulge
Recent re-examination of his work suggests that he may have discovered epigenetic inheritance, a phenomenon not recognised until long after his death
‘Quite simply, we have found support for the existence of internal bathroom scales’
That’s Maths: The Fast Fourier Transform dramatically reduced the way computation scales with problem size, making it practicable to solve many problems that could not otherwise be tackled
16th century battles on the frontier of mathematics
The formula for optimum distribution of funding between basic and applied research is not being applied at present
‘Much more attention must be paid to how beehives are deployed and account must be taken of the effect on local pollinators’
That’s Maths: Widespread vaccination can prevent epidemics by replacing the exponential rate of spread by a linear growth rate
Science is not immune to allure of BS, and we’re not as good at detecting it as we think
That’s Maths: Perhaps Galileo’s greatest contribution was ‘mathematisation’ of science
The old answer to the problem of how the world existed before the advent of conscious observers was that God was watching it
That’s Maths: Ireland was the first of many countries to use a so-called semi-Lagrangian advection scheme in an operational setting
Maths can help to improve our understanding of cardiac malfunction
We should not allow cremation to drive cemeteries out of existence and to hide death from us
That’s Maths: It can be argued that there is a close relationship between his turbulent state of mind and the turbulent atmosphere evident in his work
Higher education is to broaden horizons, not to simply embrace a homogenous view of the world
The unsteady path of the earth around the sun means we see a stretch in the evenings weeks before the mornings start to become noticeably brighter
Many people have a deep-seated and powerful emotional need to support their favourite ideology or worldview
National Children’s Science Centre is aimed at stimulating children’s natural curiosity and encouraging them to explore and discover
That’s Maths: And lo, the supernova theory
‘Gravity assists’ seem to provide free energy but it depends on your point of view
Since emotion plays a large part in motivating those who reject the consensus, then science communicators should also use emotion in making their case
William Reville: As software improves, the supremacy of such vehicles will become clear
That’s Maths: Modular arithmetic is used to calculate checksums for ISBNs and Ibans
Maths Week has contributed greatly to raising the level of appreciation of mathematics and enhancing public understanding of its importance
Schools are viewed as instruments of social engineering as much as institutions for the transmission of knowledge
Scientist warns continued sperm count decline in men ‘may lead to human extinction’
That’s Maths: Pedro Nunes, a Portuguese cosmographer and one of the greatest mathematicians of his time, was first to develop a mathematical basis for navigation
In a Markov process we can predict future changes once we know the current state
Why the changes to human behaviour necessary to ease climate change will have to be directed by government
Robo-bees could give us incredible insight into how real bees navigate, forage, communicate and avoid predators – but they are not a solution to crop pollination
Anton Mesmer combined his ideas with a flair for the dramatic that orthodox medicine found distasteful and the public found intriguing
‘I don’t think anyone knows where the universe came from, and I think we just have to accept that’
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