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Science - Tuesday 21 May, 2013

Scientists have figured out what caused the Irish Famine

The fatal pathogen was uncovered in dried potato plant samples that were over 120 years old.

From Business ETC Horticulture

€4.4m to assist horticulture producers after ‘exceptionally wet weather’

Bad weather in 2012 affected most sectors within Ireland’s horticultural industry – and the damage was further compounded for many growers by the cold late spring this year, the Minister for Agriculture said.

University of Limerick scientists invent new metal to ‘significantly reduce patient trauma’

Scientists in Limerick have invented a new metal that will make medical devices inside the body more visible under x-ray, resulting in “significantly” reducing patient trauma and hospitalisation time.

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Science - Monday 20 May, 2013

Blind people have the potential to use their ‘inner bat’ to locate objects

Researchers are now looking at developing training programmes and assistive devices for blind people using the data.

500 million-year-old fossil named after Johnny Depp

The resemblance is uncanny.

Science - Saturday 18 May, 2013

Dublin boys win Lego award for robot reminding people to take medicines

The winning boys from Jobstown built a robot and app reminding older people to take their vital medicines.

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Man sticks finger into table saw to prove his invention works

Can you handle watching what happened next? Okay then…

Science - Thursday 16 May, 2013

Do you like to tell a fib? Don’t worry, it’s part of evolution

Trinity College scientists have found that humans’ ability to lie to each other may have evolved because of our cooperative nature.

NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft is broken – but they’re determined to fix it

The planet-hunting telescope is 40 million miles from Earth and searches for Earth-like planets outside our solar system.

Billion-year-old water discovered in Canada could give clues to early life on Earth

Life-giving chemicals have been discovered in isolated water believed to be 1.5 billion years old, raising hopes of scientists finding surviving microscopic organisms from a prehistoric age.

Science - Wednesday 15 May, 2013

Scientists create human stem cells by cloning for first time

The breakthrough is one of the most significant developments since Dolly the sheep – and could potentially be used to help diseases like Parkinson’s and MS.

Major progress in the fight against osteoporosis thanks to new treatment

Teams in Boston are the first to combine treatments which stop cells that attack bones, while also helping to grow new bone.

Science - Tuesday 14 May, 2013

From Business ETC All Of The Internetz

Watch the entire internet at work in the world

A hacker broke into 420,000 computers to create this stunning GIF.

Science - Monday 13 May, 2013

Science - Sunday 12 May, 2013

Mars is the next challenge for astronauts – but landing is the biggest obstacle

The Curiosity rover is the size of a small car – but now researchers are looking at how to land something the size of a two-storey house on Mars.

Science - Saturday 11 May, 2013

Astronauts repair International Space Station’s ammonia leak in spacewalk

Six-and-a-half hours of work was needed to repair a pump which is thought to have caused the ammonia leak on board the ISS.

Science - Friday 10 May, 2013

‘Very serious’ ammonia leak outside International Space Station

Officials are now considering whether to send ISS crew members into open space to fix the leak.

Delays of up to 10 years in diagnosing bipolar disorder

New evidence suggests that many people diagnosed with depression may actually live with bipolar disorder, a misdiagnosis that can be a major problem.

Science - Thursday 9 May, 2013

How insects’ wings help engineers…

Insects are one of the most successful groups of animals…so what can we learn from them?

Science - Wednesday 8 May, 2013

From Business ETC Crann

Irish lab develops sensor to improve air and water quality testing

Trinity-based science laboratory CRANN has developed a new graphene sensor that can detect even the slightest change in signal.

Science - Monday 6 May, 2013

‘Human brain cells in mice’ technique could help tackle Parkinson’s

Scientists at the University of California say they can now grow key human brain cells by implanting them in lab mice.

Drugged Spiders Spinning Webs Archive Experiment of the Day

This is what happens to their spinning skills when they light up a doobie.

Science - Sunday 5 May, 2013

Why some people (and mice) can eat a lot and stay skinny

It may be in the genes – but you don’t give up the exercise or healthy eating just yet…

Science - Saturday 4 May, 2013

This amazing feat of engineering happened exactly 100 years ago

The key to the success of the Panama Canal – the 12km-long Culebra Cut – was completed this month in 1913. Its overseeing engineer died just months later.

‘Budding psychopaths’ can be identified ‘by how they react to people in pain’

A study has found that children who don’t react the same as other people when they see photos of people in pain may be at risk of developing psychopathy as adults.

Science - Friday 3 May, 2013

VIDEO: Ever wonder how Chris Hadfield takes his photos from space?

We’re getting towards the end of Commander Hadfield’s six months in space. Here’s how he’s been taking his snaps.

Science - Wednesday 1 May, 2013

World’s first ever web page to be brought back to life

CERN is recreating the website that launched the world wide web to mark the 20th anniversary of the Tim Berners-Lee invention.

Science - Sunday 28 April, 2013

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This is what a McDonald’s hamburger looks like after 14 years

Surprisingly, only the pickle has suffered the onslaughts of time.

NASA spots meteors crashing into Saturn’s rings for first time

Saturn is now the only place besides Earth, the moon and Jupiter where scientists have been able to observe meteor impacts as they occur.

From Business ETC Boomtime Past This post contains images

12 post-war assembly lines you’re glad you don’t work on

After World War II, mass manufacturing needed tough bodies and minds to pump up production.

Science - Saturday 27 April, 2013

How you get high: What marijuana does to your brain

Leave aside the legal/illegal debate right now – if you do smoke weed, do you know exactly how it works on the body?

Science - Thursday 25 April, 2013

Could your soft drink habit give you diabetes?

A new study shows that drinking one can of a sugar-sweetened soft drink a day can increase the risk of diabetes by a fifth.

Russian spaceship runs into trouble on way to International Space Station

The vessel may be unable to properly dock with the ISS after its navigation antenna failed to properly deploy.

Science - Wednesday 24 April, 2013

From Business ETC Women In Tech

Tech firms should be trying to please women – Microsoft researcher

Men design for other men, he argues – like the vibrate setting on a phone.

Science - Monday 22 April, 2013

Appeal for Irish to take part in global food allergy study

Data is being compiled to shed light on how allergies develop from infancy and to track their occurence in a community.

Science - Sunday 21 April, 2013

Here’s what the poison sent to Barack Obama can do

The toxin ricin is feared – with good reason.

Science - Saturday 20 April, 2013

Earth isn’t so special anymore, apparently

We’re not the only good place to hang out in the ‘habitable zone’.

Interview: Pirate Party founder on the collapse of ‘parasitic’ record labels

Rickard Falkvinge, who founded the world’s first Pirate Party in Sweden, speaks to TheJournal.ie about copyright laws, digital currencies and how to set up a new political party.

Science - Friday 19 April, 2013

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VIDEO: What happens when you wring out a damp cloth in space?

Get a clear run of the day by getting your daily ‘Chris Hadfield is awesome’ moment out of the way early.

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