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Science

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Student Accommodation
This is the tallest wooden building in the world
8 Oct 2016
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Pitch in
Japanese politicians are pretending to be pregnant to encourage men to clean the house
8 Oct 2016
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trigeminal neuralgia
Over 30 Irish buildings to light up to raise awareness of 'one of the most painful conditions known to science'
7 Oct 2016
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On the Move
Japan's solution to queues? Self-driving chairs
1 Oct 2016
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In Sickness and in health
Keeping your spouse happy could be good for your health
1 Oct 2016
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Siberia
Fears for Rudolph as 250,000 reindeer to be culled before Christmas over anthrax fears
30 Sep 2016
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on display
Look up - the Northern Lights could be on display in Ireland's skies tonight
29 Sep 2016
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a design for life
Baby born in Mexico using 'three parent' fertility technique
27 Sep 2016
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for fork's sake
Calls for Government to follow France and ban plastic cups and forks
27 Sep 2016
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Smog
UN agency says 681 people died in Ireland from air pollution in one year
27 Sep 2016
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Animal Welfare
Shopping mall home to 'world's saddest bear' refuses wildlife park offer
25 Sep 2016
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Obesity
'Alarming results': Unfit Dublin teens show risk of heart disease similar to 55 or 60-year-olds
23 Sep 2016
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bloomsbury
Australia's 'Barefoot Bushman' has been mauled by a 15-foot crocodile
22 Sep 2016
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rural broadband
Eir is hiring 100 new people to work on the rollout of rural broadband
22 Sep 2016
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Research
Trinity study seeks women exposed to Hepatitis C-contaminated product in 70s
20 Sep 2016
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National Concert Hall
Multimillion euro children's science centre to be built alongside Ireland's only Real Tennis court
20 Sep 2016
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Cork harbour
Pharmaceutical BioPark to create 500 full-time jobs and 800 construction jobs in Cork
19 Sep 2016
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Research
Scientists identify drug that could increase social interaction of people with autism
18 Sep 2016
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Rat them trout
Leonardo DiCaprio wants you to spy on fishermen
16 Sep 2016
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Nuclear Power
The UK is to push ahead with a new nuclear power station across the Irish Sea
15 Sep 2016
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The Monsanto Years
€58 billion deal to buy controversial Monsanto corporation called a "marriage made in hell"
14 Sep 2016
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pauline cafferkey
Nurse who survived Ebola cleared of lying to doctors
14 Sep 2016
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microcephaly
Several people have been diagnosed with the Zika virus in the North
14 Sep 2016
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polar peril
Russian scientists trapped in weather station for two weeks by polar bears
14 Sep 2016
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embryonic research
Making babies without women's eggs has just moved a step closer
14 Sep 2016
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Sugar Tax
How the sugar-trafficking food industry paid scientists to tell us fat, not sugar, was the real problem
13 Sep 2016
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high way
Dizzying timelapse shows clouds move beneath the world's tallest bridge
12 Sep 2016
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body heat
A new material could be a huge breakthrough for people who sweat a lot
11 Sep 2016
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Red Planet
Nasa's Curiosity rover has sent back some holiday pics from Mars
10 Sep 2016
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Working Music
Here's why your boss should let you listen to music at work
10 Sep 2016
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Eco-Loo
New York to revive oyster population by growing them on recycled toilets
10 Sep 2016
9.8k
6
fergal hickey
Patients needing urgent brain surgery are turned away from Ireland's second-biggest hospital
6 Sep 2016
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38
Phoney empathy
Social media can bring out the worst in public mourning, says an expert on digital grief
6 Sep 2016
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3D-printed bone breakthrough made by Dublin researchers
2 Sep 2016
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16
shedding the pounds
Your immune system might be making you fat, major new Irish research suggests
1 Sep 2016
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Spaced Out
SpaceX rocket explodes on launch pad
1 Sep 2016
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Naloxone
A new heroin overdose drug has saved five lives under a HSE pilot programme
31 Aug 2016
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Cannabis
More US adults are using marijuana as they don't think it's harmful
31 Aug 2016
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65
Social exclusion
People with a 'cold' face are judged more harshly than others
31 Aug 2016
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18
fresh air
Six people just completed a year in a Hawaii dome all in the name of science
29 Aug 2016
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