Science

Using DNA to solve a family mystery: ‘It brought great comfort to some of the older relatives’

India’s moon rover completes assignments and is ‘parked’ until next sunrise

Super blue moon in pictures: From Dublin to Istanbul

Wildfires and warming seas: 2023 is the year that has offered a grim glimpse of the future

Super blue moon visible across Irish skies again tonight

Ireland leading the way in drive to make science laboratories more sustainable

Sugar-crazed common wasp gives the species a bad name

Is the answer to Earth’s power conundrum in space?

India lands spacecraft near moon’s south pole in world first

James Webb Telescope captures unprecedented detail of Ring Nebula

Russia’s first moon mission in 47 years fails after Luna-25 smashes into moon

The human cost of electric car batteries

The deep connections between the art of music and the science of maths, from Bach to Bacharach

What's driving the new race to the moon?

Russia joins race to find water on moon with launch of lunar lander

Virgin Galactic’s first space tourism flight successfully lands back on Earth

A big climate question: Where lies the balance between optimism and pessimism?

We can learn from how past societies used and reused valuable materials

Cracking the conversations between brain and gut

Nasa restores contact with Voyager 2 spacecraft after mistake led to silence

Would you ‘kill’ one person to save five? Famous thought experiments

Sturgeon Moon: August’s first supermoon to delight skygazers

Dara Ó Briain takes on the moon and the places ‘Irish people know but the British seem never to have heard of’

July set to be world's hottest month on record, confirm climate scientists

Green skills needed for mainstream economy

Grassroots climate action driven by bold artistic endeavour

Mystery of how diamonds erupt from Earth is cracked by team of scientists led by Irishman

Nasa briefly loses contact with International Space Station, relies on backup systems for first time

The western world is besieged by criticisms - academics must be free to investigate

Dynamic similarity and the Reynolds number

Europe heatwave: 'We will continue to see records broken', says climate scientist

Getting to the bottom of the phantom sounds of tinnitus

What if unobtanium were the most abundant element in the universe?

Hare traffic control: managing to keep wildlife away from planes at Dublin Airport

Unborn babies use ‘greedy’ gene from fathers to ‘remote-control’ mothers into feeding them extra food – study finds

The Loch Ness monster unites sixth-century Irish monk St Columba and the SNP in distaste

Delaying climate action could make carbon budgets infeasible

Ireland’s role in 2013 international agreement on Atlantic Ocean research celebrated in Dublin event

Virgin Galactic marks first commercial spaceflight

Summer reads for the science-inspired

Viewing climate change through a local lens limits the view

Background hum in the cosmos: astrophysicists hail ‘the start of something big’

Lessons from nature on food security

Superconductor breakthrough at UCC could be significant for future of quantum computing

US Coast Guard confirms 'catastrophic loss' of Titan sub

Science writing under the microscope at this year’s Robert Boyle Summer School

Museums show what species we have lost - ‘frozen zoos’ can help prevent further extinctions

How the honeybee could help protect us from the next pandemic

Climate crisis was predicted, but global warming is now entering uncharted territory

Model embryo with heartbeat replicates cells in early pregnancy

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Storm Agnes: Thousands without power, roads flooded and roof blown off as Cork hit by weather

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Naval Service fired shots twice as ship carrying drugs tried to flee

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Drug ship seized off Cork with €157m of cocaine was ‘largest in the history of the State’, briefing told

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Large quantity of drugs found on board ship off Cork coast

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Ireland weather: Met Éireann warns of ‘whole day’ weather event with arrival of Storm Agnes

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