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The EU’s medicines regulator said this week that blood clots should be listed as a rare side effect of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Photograph: Barbara Gindl /APA/AFP via Getty Images
Spain and Italy to restrict AstraZeneca’s Covid jab to over-60s

Spain and Italy have moved to limit the use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine to people aged above 60, in shifts that will complicate the countries’ e(...)

Scientists are hopeful the drug could be added to the armoury of treatments used to improve outcomes of the most critically ill patients. Image: iStock
Arthritis drug offers hope for severely ill Covid patients

Scientists have found that a drug used to fight rheumatoid arthritis leads to significantly improved outcomes for severely ill Covid-19 patients, the (...)

The 19 women taking this action were aged between 11 and 21 during their time with the sisters.
Subpoenas served on order of nuns as Dutch court asked to lift statute of limitation

A Dutch court is to be asked to lift the statute of limitation on a legal action in which 19 women aim to sue the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in the (...)

The Covid-19 Research Hub will be located at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute. The Covid-19 Research Hub will be located at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute.
Trinity to set up Covid-19 research centre

Trinity College Dublin is to set up a Covid-19 research hub that will focus on the most urgent scientific breakthroughs needed to address the current (...)

A Chinese shopkeeper waits for customers at a local market in Beijing on March 4th. A 55-year-old individual from Hubei province may have been the first person to have contracted Covid-19 in November last year. Photograph: Getty Images
Coronavirus – the science: The search for ‘patient zero’

This is the first in a series of regular updates from Irish Times Environment and Science Editor Kevin O’Sullivan on scientific initiatives and develo(...)

Prof José Van Dijck of Utrecht University: ‘There is hardly any public space, or ‘public good’ sense, in the internet system’.
Trust no one: The cynical logic of social media

Scientists are bemoaning a loss of trust in expertise but spare a thought for the lowly journalist. Surveys show trust in science has not plummeted. I(...)

The European Commission says the new “European University” initiative will allow students, doctoral candidates, staff and researchers to move “seamlessly” between institutions. Photograph: Getty Images
EU network to let students transfer ‘seamlessly’ between colleges

Students will be able study for degrees by completing modules across a “seamless” network of European universities under a new initiative. Trinity an(...)

DCU’s support services were singled out by the review team for helping to boost leadership and life-skills among students. File photograph: Cyril Byrne
Concern over lack of training for doctoral students in teaching roles at DCU

Concern over the lack of training for doctoral students who are given teaching roles has been flagged in a new review of Dublin City University by the(...)

‘Funding per student has declined, and third-level capital infrastructure is underfunded.’ Photograph: iStock
Third-level system ‘in danger’ from underfunding and rising student numbers

Ireland is one of just two European countries where the third-level education system is “in danger” due to a funding shortfall and rising student numb(...)

A file Nasa image released in December 22017 shows an iceberg floating in Antarctica’s McMurdo Sound. Photograph: AFP
Antarctica ice melting six times faster than in 1980s, study finds

Antarctica’s annual ice losses have accelerated six-fold in the past 40 years in a trend that could push sea levels metres higher in coming centuries (...)

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