Dick Ahlstrom

The phrase “a recipe for disaster” comes to mind while reading through Department of Education and Skills proposals to alter the funding regime for ou(...)

If you have heard the word science a lot over the past few days then it probably has something to do with Science Week 2017. The annual series of nati(...)

What is happening when water in a pot begins to boil? And what happens when the boiling water turns into steam? Yes, the water is getting hotter but w(...)

It is difficult to imagine it now but rural parts of Ireland underwent a technological revolution when electricity was finally delivered to people’s f(...)

We habitually put a lot of trust into our relationship with government, but you have to wonder whether that faith – that government will act in our be(...)

We habitually put a lot of trust into our relationship with government, but you have to wonder whether that faith – that government will act in our be(...)

For Ireland, the future of climate change is going to be all about water – having too much of it or too little, getting swamped by it or roasting in i(...)

GPs in Ireland used to give people a bottle of medicine. It was pink or it was blue, and if one didn’t work you tried the other one. Then, as now, mos(...)

Donald Trump’s public quarrel with the parents of a dead soldier is the latest in a long line of fights he probably was better off not picking. Spea(...)

Dr Fiona Ginty Principal scientist in the Life Sciences and Molecular Diagnostics Organization at GE Research Center (GRC) in NYC, working on a cure (...)