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Long Covid study finds previously undetected abnormalities in lungs
British pilot research uses xenon to identify damage in patients missed by routine tests
Infertility: Men account for at least half of cases. So why have women shouldered the blame?
We need to talk about fertility afresh, not least because the sperm-count ‘crisis’ doesn’t add up
‘No safe amount’: All alcohol consumption ‘harmful to the brain’
Study of 25,000 people finds even moderate drinking is linked to lower grey-matter density
Covid has upended the out-of-office email. Hooray!
The humble auto-reply has come into its own now that time off really has to mean time off
No Irish Need Apply – Frank McNally on the national hang-up about capital punishment
An Irishman’s Diary
‘When engineers design a product, we need to consider ways it could fail’
Research Lives: Bryan Naab, PhD student, I-Form centre for advanced manufacturing, UCD
Louise Ryan: Battles on the ‘home front’
Women proved easy targets for the Black and Tans and were regularly terrorised in their homes by threatening, abusive and drunk soldiers
Coronavirus - the science: The merits of app trackers and face masks
Edition 4: Countries wrestling with mask policy but there are slivers of good news
'Killer robots' are not science fiction - they're here
Campaign to Stop Killer Robots has one main message – all weapons must have meaningful human control
Women smokers at ‘significantly higher’ health risk than men
Research shows that men who smoke can lower sperm count of their sons
Pope approves changes to the Lord’s Prayer to clarify temptation reference
Pontiff agrees to rewording to remove implication God may lead people into temptation
Prof Terence Dolan dies following long illness
Sparkling professor of English could ‘turn a sentence on a ha’penny’
‘Moon and Me’: the new TV show from the genius behind ‘Teletubbies’
Another success for the hit-maker despite being accused of creating ‘orgies’ for infants
The Sunday papers: From investigative brilliance to scurrilous gossip
Mapping the history of that most Irish of newspaper genres – the Sunday paper
Formula One drivers the nearest thing sport has to a boy band
If even drivers think F1 is an engineering bore how tough a sell can it be to the rest of us?
‘The best way to learn a language is to immerse yourself in it’
Learning new languages has opened up a world of opportunity for these Irish abroad
Making biologics more cost effective
Innovation awards finalist: Valitacell offers pharmas way to make bio-therapeutic drugs faster and cheaper
No laughing matter: why are we so terrified of clowns?
Real-life clowns are protesting that Stephen King’s ‘It’ is killing their business. So why are they so often seen as evil?
Sperm count of Western men in downward spiral, study finds
Scientists document 59.3 per cent drop in average amount of sperm produced by Western men between 1973 and 2011
Coffee cuts risk of death from strokes and heart disease, studies find
Coffee lowers the risk of dying from several medical conditions, scientists suggest
Valitacell ramps up its targeting of big pharma
UCD-based Irish biological drug firm lists GE and MedImmune among clients
Cautionary tale about advice to ‘drink plenty of fluids’
Drinking too much water can lead to abnormally low levels of sodium in the body
Artificial Intelligence judges court cases with 79% accuracy
Algorithm analysed 584 cases to find patterns and apply them to other cases
How much has changed since little Alan Kurdi died?
A year after the boy drowned, those trying to escape war still get little help from Europe
Urban birds have less reason to be chirpy than their country cousins
City birds have duller feathers due to pollution, suffer from a lack of insects and are at risk from predators such as cats
Scientists make controversial advance in study of embryos
New technique will help investigate causes of infertility but pushes against UK’s legal limit
Government policies have left workers with less job security
Data from 19 EU states shows protections for workers weakened or removed
Humans might be able to regrow their teeth like sharks
New research looks into ways of reactivating tooth growing genes
Opinion: Who has the answer to the housing crisis?
Social housing provides homes and can keep the private market in check
Maths Week: Pianist on a numerical mission
Dr Eugenia Cheng using music and the baking of cupcakes to make sense of illogical world
William Reville: Maybe our brains aren’t so important after all
A discovery in the 1970s challenged ideas about how the brain works. So why did medical science ignore it?
Breakthrough on diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis
Researchers identify protein that regulates severity of tissue damage caused by disease
Minimum alcohol pricing planned for the North
North’s Health Minister Jim Wells says drinking costs over €1bn per year
Study shows cannabis smoking affects male fertility
Over 2,000 recruited by University of Sheffiled for research
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