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Science explains why your diet plan may not be working for you
- Science
- November 26, 2020, 06:00
Were you ever frustrated when a diet plan that helped a friend lose weight didn’t work for you? Scientists working in the emerging field of personali(...)

Irish agritech company MagGrow raises €6m in funding
- Agribusiness & Food
- August 6, 2020, 15:57
Irish agritech company MagGrow has raised €6 million in a funding round led by a venture capital firm whose co-founder previously led investments in a(...)

Irish agritech company MagGrow raises €3m in investment
- Technology
- November 13, 2018, 09:55
Dublin-headquartered agritech company MagGrow has raised €3 million in funding. It says the money will be spend to support growth in target markets an(...)

Get schooled on the science of beer
- Technology
- August 20, 2018, 15:48
It is fast approaching that time of year when the leaves turn golden, the kids go back to school, and you consider taking up an evening class in Greek(...)

Ireland’s agriculture emissions are hurtling in the wrong direction
- Science
- August 9, 2018, 01:00
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar admitted to the European Parliament in January what climate activists have long known: Ireland’s performance on climate change (...)

‘Waste is Delicious’: Producing food with stuff other folks throw away
- Offbeat
- March 29, 2018, 16:52
First it was a supermarket aisle free of plastics. Now the Netherlands has notched up another novel solution in its fight against waste and pollution (...)

Robots on the farm – and they’re environment friendly
- Environment
- June 30, 2017, 11:59
Our countryside will host robotic labourers toiling away on farms, from dusk to dawn. Robots will watch over and tend to crops, while others ag-bots h(...)

Michael Viney: On my knees again, planting potatoes in the cool, silky soil
- Environment
- March 11, 2017, 05:00
Down on my knees again, I could be thanking Gaia for sparing the polytunnel from late winter storms but was actually planting potatoes. It’s been good(...)

Boom time: Boyan Slat launches prototype to clean up ocean debris
- Business
- June 27, 2016, 10:00
A revolutionary new maritime “vacuum cleaner” which could suck more than 20 billion tonnes of plastic waste out of the world’s oceans – solving one of(...)

Irish FameLab winner throws light on food solution
- Science
- June 11, 2014, 16:40
Plants turn light into food. So if we could get crops to do that more efficiently, we would get more food, right? So goes the thinking behind a talk b(...)