Lorraine Hanlon
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Searching for the sources of violent explosions in space
- Science
- October 25, 2018, 06:00
Sheila, you are interested in big explosions in space. Tell us more “I work on gamma-ray bursts, which are big releases of energy. They usually happen(...)

Joining the space race
- Sponsored
- October 18, 2017, 00:00
Space exploration used to be a two-horse race, the exclusive preserve of two major superpowers, each trying to outdo the other with ever-bigger rocket(...)

Space . . . a new frontier is announced
- Space
- October 16, 2017, 19:38
A collision of two neutron stars, 130 million light years away, has opened up “a new window on the Universe”. The spectacular event which occurred on (...)

Weir science: a stellar artistic voyage that poses big questions
- Art & Design
- January 21, 2016, 06:00
‘When I hear the word ‘science’,” says Grace Weir, “it’s like hearing the word ‘art’. Are you thinking of opera, contemporary, abstract, theatre?” It(...)

UCD spin-out company wins European Space Agency contract
- Technology
- February 10, 2015, 10:15
Parameter Space, a new University College Dublin (UCD) spin-out company, has secured an €800,000 contract with the European Space Agency (ESA).The pur(...)

Culture shock: The best artistic stories that science has to tell
- Culture
- January 10, 2015, 01:00
Thousands of years ago people made up stories to explain the world. Myths describing the changing seasons often became dogma, morphing into religion. (...)

View to a cosmic thrill
- Science
- June 27, 2013, 01:00
It’s the cosmic question that has puzzled minds since time began: what do astrophysicists do all day? Somehow you imagine the typical day of an astrop(...)