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William Rowan Hamilton: In his winning essay, Hayes focuses on the ‘flash of genius’ Hamilton experienced in October 1843 when he carved the equation that had just come to his mind into the stones of Broombridge on the Royal Canal near Cabra, in Dublin
NUI Galway student does the maths to win Mary Mulvihill Award

NUI Galway maths student James Hayes (17) is the 2020 winner of the Mary Mulvihill Award, the science media competition for third-level students. The(...)

George Gabriel Stokes made profound contributions to hydrodynamics and devised and performed many ingenious experiments in optical science. Portrait: The Royal Society
Call for greater recognition of George Stokes’s contribution to science

Ireland should do much more to recognise “the immense contribution to the world of science” made by mathematician and physicist George Gabriel Stokes (...)

Radio presenter and comedian Mario Rosenstock: he uses the Luas and taxis as he cannot drive. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Do we really need to know how to drive?

To many driving a car is one of the more mundane occurrences in their day. People drive to the office, collect kids from school, visit friends and fam(...)

The Pitch Drop experiment

Later this year a big black blob of sticky pitch will plummet from a funnel and plop into a beaker. In one of the longest-running physics exper(...)