Did death cheat Stephen Hawking of a Nobel Prize?
Black holes behave as the physicist predicted. But the ultimate award is beyond his reach
Mixed performance among Irish universities in latest university rankings
Trinity climbs to 146th, but four colleges slip down Times Higher Education league table
The Dublin inventor who was an early pioneer of high speed photography
Lucien Bull went to Belvedere College before emigrating to Paris to study zoology, botany and geology
Irish universities climb up latest global rankings
Trinity College Dublin moves up seven places to rank just outside the world’s top 100
How Katie Bouman accidentally became the face of the black hole project
As the first image of a black hole went viral, another image put the spotlight on a beaming young scientist
We are about to see the first mission to defend humanity against space
John Holden: Nasa-led expedition is seeking to protect Earth against future destruction
China orders halt to gene editing after outcry over babies
Scientist’s claim of altering genetics of twins has yet to be verified
Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded for protein breakthroughs
Trio are given the prize for pioneering work inspired by ‘the power of evolution’
Trinity College slips in latest global university rankings
Alarm among academics over impact of funding ‘crisis’ on third level
Irish universities tumble down latest set of world rankings
Call for Government to tackle funding crisis as TCD loses status as only top-100 Irish university
Space . . . a new frontier is announced
Irish scientists contribute to research on event that ‘opened new window to the Universe’
Nobel Prize awarded to gravitational waves physicists
Three US professors in 2016 detected phenomenon Einstein predicted 100 years ago
Trinity College climbs up global university rankings
Brexit offers ‘opportunities’ for Irish universities but funding increases are necessary
Trinity and UCD climb in latest world university rankings
UCD says it may need to ‘reduce number of places to Irish students to preserve quality’
Planet Nine: a study in celestial shyness
Most astronomers are sceptical about the existence of Planet Nine, but mathematical models suggest there is something unseen out there
Climate change enters dangerous new territory
The Earth’s atmosphere now carries over 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide
Whoops: Data blunder sees TCD fall out of global rankings
Trinity College Dublin omitted from scale due to blunder over incorrect data
The search is on for the ninth planet
That’s Maths: If such a planet is found, the solar system must be much larger than we had imagined
Evidence of new planet ‘10 times size of Earth’ in solar system
Existence of ‘Planet Nine’ shown by examining gravitational influence on other bodies
Nasa explorer finds methane and organic chemicals on Mars
‘Curiosity’ rover continues hunt for clues about the possibility of life on the Red Planet
Magnitude 5.1 earthquake shakes Los Angeles
Disneyland closes rides as a precaution following second earthquake in two weeks
Tokyo threat: is a massive earthquake on the way?
The 2011 Japanese earthquake has increased the chances of a big hit on the city – and Ireland is not safe from tsunamis either
The lost tribe that is trying to save the world
More than 20 years ago, Alan Ereira made a film about an elusive Colombian people who changed how he saw the universe. A follow-up has an urgent warning for mankind
Mars soil sample analysis reveals 2% of water by weight
Scoop of fine-grained sand collected by Curiosity rover is analysed
Voyager 1 powers its way out of the solar system
Spacecraft launched 36 years ago is now 11.5bn miles from the Sun
Space probe becomes first man-made object to leave solar system
Voyager 1 is on a lonely journey away from the sun and its planets
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