Our diets may be bad for our health, but a vegetarian world would create new problems

Scientists discover genetic mutations that help protect against cancer and other diseases

Research provides fresh evidence of dangers posed to coastal areas such as Miami, Shanghai, Bangladesh

UCC and Oxford jointly hire top quantum scientist, capitalising on uncertainty in UK

Chinese scientist accused of breaching guidelines on using CRISPR genome technology

Science Lives: Dr Annie Curtis of the RCSI’s strategic academic recruitment programme

Tipping point would pose ‘severe risks for health, economies, political stability’

Discovery could result in recycling solution for millions of plastic bottles and containers

Algorithms can predict nuances of your political views more accurately than your loved ones

Mice exposed to e-cigarette smoke had more DNA damage in heart, lungs and bladder

Researchers compared Irish sites with location in New Zealand ravaged by a tsunami millions of years ago

Evidence on pottery indicates winemaking started 1,000 years earlier than thought

Marina Ratner: mathematician, born October 30th, 1938; died July 7th, 2017

Study finds buying takeaway makes you more happy than buying clothes

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Researchers predict ‘biological annihilation’ as billions of populations of animals lost in recent decades

Forties become the new 20s for physicists as Nobel-winning work takes longer to achieve

Scientists find way to make vancomycin 1,000 times more potent than old drug

Scientists are making strides in the discovery of potentially viable solar fuel materials

Urgent action needed to save the fastest land animal in the world from extinction

This month 173 years ago, William Rowan Hamilton had his ‘eureka’ moment as he walked along the Royal Canal

Diesel escapes tax increase despite lobbying from environmental and heritage groups

Golden rice could save lives in developing countries, but activists continue to resist it in the face of the evidence

Trust is a poorly understood and an often taken-for-granted phenomenon

At the coalface of groundbreaking scientific and health research all over the world are these eight pioneering women

About 80 per cent of the factors that determine ageing are not genetic; we can exercise control over them

US peer-reviewed journal studied 565 children with aim to uncover origins of selfishness

Concern raised over use of climate-altering technologies as potential weapons

About a third of plastic dumped in sea comes from China, survey shows

Science, your mammy and the common cold

In survey of women in Africa, Oxford researchers found evidence of less virulent virus

Belfast researcher Dr Ryan Milligan (38) hopes to better understand large solar flares

Recent study published by a group of international astronomers and astrobiologists

Latest studies fail to support claims that overhead cables represent a danger to the public

A sideways gait could be three times as expensive energetically as walking forward: good exercise, then

A recent study claims to provide evidence for commensal relationships between people and cats from 5,300 years ago

The initial plan was for ‘Spirit’ and ‘Opportunity’ to spend just a few months trundling around the surface of Mars. But they kept on trucking

It might not be cute, but Science magazine recently named the toothy underground rodent its ‘Vertebrate of the Year’ for 2013

Study shows women’s brains are designed for social skills and memory, men’s for perception and co-ordination