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Harmony will be available to buy as a standalone robotic head ($8,000-$10,000) or you can also purchase the body ($6,000-plus)
Robot love: The race to create the ultimate AI sex partner

“McMullen moves behind [Harmony] and flips a switch. He turns her on. Slowly her head lifts and her eyes open. Her body remains motionless: it contain(...)

The country’s top-ranked unversity fell three places to 120th place in The Times Higher Education world university rankings for 2019. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Trinity College slips in latest global university rankings

Trinity College Dublin has slipped again in the latest set of influential global university rankings. The country’s top-ranked university fell three (...)

Controversial study finds salt not as damaging to health as thought

Salt may not be as damaging to health as is usually claimed, according to a controversial new study which suggests campaigns to persuade people to cut(...)

Damage was progressively reduced as the thickness of applied sunscreen increased. Photograph: iStock
Apply more sunscreen than you think you need, scientists warn

Sunscreen that is spread on the skin too thinly may provide less than half the expected degree of protection, a study has shown. Scientists analysed (...)

Antidepressants can have adverse side-effects including nausea, sexual dysfunction and hypertension
Seven tips to manage anxiety

There are several approaches to managing the symptoms of generalised anxiety disorder 1) CBT Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) includes a variety (...)

Rosalind Franklin in 1950. She, like Crick, had realised that DNA had a double helix structure. Photograph: Vittoria Luzzati/NPG
An Irish Twist on ‘The Secret of Life’

When Barack Obama used a model of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in his 2016 State of the Union Address to introduce the concept of “Precision Medicine a(...)

Mo Mowlam with her portrait painted by artist John Keane in 2002 at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth / PA
With the toss of a wig! Mo Mowlam and the Belfast Agreement
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  • April 5, 2018, 10:15

How important can a wig toss on a Monday, a hug on a Tuesday, and an expletive on a Wednesday really be to a peace process? Some people may argue not (...)

Roisín O’Donnell: uses magic realism to reflect the buried memories of the conflict, which manifest in supernatural form. Photograph: Daithi Taylor
‘The memories that fuelled the conflict were not gone, only buried’
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  • April 4, 2018, 06:00

Roisín O’Donnell’s oeuvre features a cross-cultural mix of realistic and magical realist stories that are set across the globe. Born in England to Nor(...)

A black taxi tour in West Belfast: “You have to [include jokes]. You’d crack if you didn’t.” Photograph: Stephen Wilson/Pacemaker
Humour as black as a black taxi: joking about the Troubles

This has been a good year for Northern Irish comedy. From the unexpected return of original conflict caper Give My Head Peace, through to the riotous (...)

DUP leader Arlene Foster walks past a portrait of her predecessor Ian Paisley at Parliament Buildings in Stormont in Belfast. File photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
Unionism’s obsession with masculinity hurts its cause

Shortly after Arlene Foster became the new leader of the Democratic Unionist Party in 2016, her fellow DUP MLA Edwin Poots caused a media stir by insi(...)

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