Cormac O Raifeartaigh

The year 2020 will probably be remembered as the year of the dreadful Covid-19 virus, but it should also be remembered as a year of significant triump(...)

It’s hard to believe that it’s only seven months since the novel coronavirus which causes Covid-19 first emerged. Quite apart from the tragic statisti(...)

Two of Ireland’s most prominent scientists, Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Prof Luke O’Neill, are headlining a programme of events being hosted by(...)

Following the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus, I noted in my last column in April most governments around the world paid close attention to the advice (...)

For scientists, environmentalists and others concerned with the issue of climate change, the Covid-19 crisis has provided many insights into the way o(...)

“What’s your take on Greta Thunberg and her school strike?” a colleague asked me over lunch a few days ago. “Wouldn’t she and her followers be better (...)

We have one universe, but at present different determinations of its rate of expansion, which simply do not agree. This constitutes a puzzle, the reso(...)

This week, one of the most famous experiments of 20th century science will be celebrated at an international conference in Paris. On May 29th, 1919, t(...)

“When were atoms first discovered?” I was recently asked. The question often comes up at this time of year, as our students embark on their first cour(...)

“Science is always political,” asserted a young delegate at an international conference on the history of physics earlier this month. It was a very en(...)