Sean Duke

When Eugene Cernan of Apollo 17 became the last human to walk on the Moon back in December 1972, no one would have guessed that 50 years later we stil(...)

The stuff astronomers can see when they look out at the universe – stars, planets, and galaxies, makes up a paltry 4 per cent of what’s actually out t(...)

The head of an organ donor organisation has said not being vaccinated against Covid-19 affects a person’s chance of getting a transplant. However, Ph(...)

Anyone who has “talked” to an online chatbot might have ended up feeling frustrated they weren’t listened to or helped. Yet, chatbots have upped thei(...)

The world’s largest telescope – the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) – is under construction in Chile. When it captures its “first light”, sometime in (...)

The closest-ever observation of a gamma-ray burst has yielded a result that challenges current theories of how the brightest, most energetic explosion(...)

The origin of seismic Love waves induced by ocean waves – one of the four types of energy waves that are also produced by earthquakes – has been a mys(...)

In the second part of a series on the science of consciousness, Seán Duke features those who believe the human brain works more like a quantum compute(...)

In the first of a two-part series Seán Duke examines the science and philosophy of consciousness – starting with “the insiders”; those who believe ans(...)

A scientific instrument, built and designed in Ireland, which will measure any tiny changes in microgravity during European scientific experiments pla(...)