Carl Sagan
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The Irish Times view on alien life: Venus’s new genes
- Editorial
- September 18, 2020, 21:23
The great US astronomer Carl Sagan described Venus as the planet in our solar system most like hell. But he also suggested some 50 years ago that it m(...)

Why humans can survive without religion but not rituals
- Culture
- January 2, 2020, 05:00
If you could start with a clean slate today what public holidays would you create? New Year’s Day marks the beginning of the Gregorian calendar but w(...)

Meet the artist who is ‘just itching to make more silk scarves’
- Culture
- November 2, 2019, 05:30
“What would you call them?” artist Niall Sweeney says early in our conversation. The question is rhetorical, but borne of an inability to describe the(...)

Capricorns make fine flatmates. It’s Scorpios you need to watch
- Culture
- June 29, 2019, 05:00
Reports suggest committed belief in pseudo-scientific bottom-water of the brownest hue is enjoying yet another revival. The word “committed” is import(...)

What’s inside a black hole? We’re looking into it
- Science
- June 13, 2019, 06:00
Physicist Ana Alonso-Serrano has spent much of her career thinking about what’s inside a black hole, an object which the world only caught a first gli(...)

Prof Brian Cox: ‘It would be great to put Donald Trump in a classroom for a week’
- Culture
- February 2, 2019, 05:00
If Professor Brian Cox picks up a rock, it’s time to listen. Not because he’s the threatening type, of course, but because it means he’s employing ite(...)

‘It's a romantic attempt to describe how we are as humans to an extra-terrestrial audience'
- Film
- July 29, 2017, 05:00
In June 1977, four days after the death of Elvis, the first of two Voyager space probes were launched. More than 40 years later, Voyager 1 and 2 are s(...)

The Farthest: An epic, moving Irish space movie
- Film
- July 26, 2017, 11:12
The late Carl Sagan was a bit of a ham. But he was our ham. He was a ham for humanism and logical thinking. At the end of Emer Reynolds’s splendid new(...)

We’re all deeply weird and 'normal' can be a crushing concept
- Culture
- July 26, 2017, 05:00
Two years ago Australian artist Patricia Piccinini populated the main gallery at the Galway International Arts Festival with oddly loveable creatures (...)

Brian Cox on Trump, climate change and intelligent life
- Stage
- December 3, 2016, 05:00
Prof Brian Cox is on the stage in the Olympia and behind him there is a photograph taken by Nasa’s Curiosity rover on Mars, in which Earth appears as (...)