Third woman accuses Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct

Julie Swetnick says she saw Kavanaugh at parties where women were ‘gang raped’

Crowd control: how Leaving Cert maths can save lives

Aoife Hunt uses maths to work out ways to evacuate buildings safely in emergencies

Brexit and higher education: ‘The interest in Ireland is amazing’

UCC president Patrick O’Shea reports 40% rise in international applications to the university

Pioneering software engineer and Cobol co-designer

Obituary: Jean E Sammet. Born: March 23rd, 1928. Died: May 20th, 2017

How fake news is destroying transparency on the internet

Spread the propaganda and hashtag flooding have damaged utopian ideas about public benefit of web

Macron emails posted online in ‘massive’ hacking operation

Trove of internal campaign documents posted online on ahead of election

Crystal engineering: Irish universities lead the way in developing innovative technology

Materials developed here have commercial potential worldwide

Trump turns on leakers as disclosures undermine White House

President vows to punish ‘low-life leakers’ who have added to turbulence of his office

Universities need to be creative to survive, says new UCC president

Prof Patrick O’Shea pledges to put UCC among the world’s great universities

Creating a criminal: what causes people to cross the line

What children see, what is role-modelled for them, has a crucial effect on future behaviour

Conjoined at the head twins separated in New York

Jadon and Anias McDonald underwent 16 hours of surgery to separate brain tissue

Terrorism in the West: More lethal, more random, less likely

Despite extensive coverage, attacks are killing far fewer westerners than in 1970s and 1980s

UCC physics graduate named university’s next president

Prof Patrick O’Shea returns to Cork from senior research post at University of Maryland

Panama Papers: Secret records reveal money network tied to Vladimir Putin

Putin and Sergey Roldugin forged a bond as young men

Book on James Barry wins Berger prize

Richly-illustrated book on murals published by Cork University Press

Boko Haram kills more in 2014 than Islamic State

Nigeria suicide bombs continue apace despite president’s claims of victories over jihadists

Rote learning is failing science students

Opinion: Problem-solving, creativity and experimentation are crucial tools of the trade

Donald Clarke: Do threats made on Twitter count as free speech?

Ashley Judd says she will press charges over threats made in the US, but imprisoning people for saying nasty things is a tricky business

Apple disputes 'theory of large numbers' applies to $700bn firm

Whether law of large numbers applies to tech giant or not, Tim Cook says it won’t inhibit growth

Brian Williams takes break from NBC as credibility questions grow

Anchor forced to admit he had ‘conflated’ events of helicopter incident in Iraq

That’s Men: The quest for certainty can lead to extremism

The need for ‘cognitive closure’ may drive some young westerners into Islamic extremism, says psychologist Arie Kruglanski

Beam me up: scientists say human teleportation is ‘possible’

Dutch physicists report they were able to reliably teleport information between two quantum bits

Turkish PM goes on ‘risky’ €72bn spending splurge

Erdogan plans a series of new investment projects, including a €21 billion airport, but critics warn on spending and environment

Think you are a hard worker? Stop deluding yourself

Opinion: the disease of overwork is partly in our minds

Not all aboard Turkey’s fast train to prosperity

The Marmaray Metro offers further proof of Turkey’s booming economy but the experts see trouble ahead

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