# science - Saturday 22 January, 2011
We’re only about 10 days away from running out of internet ‘postcodes’, says an internet provider encouraging an upgrade.
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# science - Wednesday 19 January, 2011
Parents of little girl who died yesterday of rare Batten’s Disease “hopeful” that her brother Liam may get latest medical help.
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Some parents in the US have been bringing their children to have baby teeth removed in the hopes that stem cells harvested from them might help with future health problems.
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# science - Friday 14 January, 2011
A team in Argentina says it’s discovered a distant relative of the Tyrannosaurus – but about 4 feet in height.
# science - Tuesday 11 January, 2011
No matter how much exercise you do, sitting in front of a TV or computer screen increases your risk of heart disease.
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The Sunswift IVy clocks an average speed faster than any other solar vehicle… at a not-mind-melting 55mph.
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# science - Monday 10 January, 2011
Four Dublin colleges launch joint bid to merge and become a ‘technological university’ a day before Hunt Report on third-level education strategy due.
# science - Thursday 6 January, 2011
A now-retracted study that linked autism to childhood vaccines is ridiculed by a leading medical journal.
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# science - Wednesday 5 January, 2011
Hundreds of women in the UK, and over 30 in Ireland, report unwanted pregnancies while using implanted contraceptive.
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# science - Monday 6 December, 2010
After issuing an appeal for emergency donations, the Irish Blood Transfusion Service sees its stocks increase.
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# science - Friday 3 December, 2010
Discovery of arsenic-based life form is unlike anything ever seen before.
# science - Wednesday 1 December, 2010
Study from New Zealand concludes that “liberally” giving products containing paracetamol given to children may have serious side-effects.
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# science - Tuesday 30 November, 2010
New research suggests those with specific diets aren’t fussy – they actually have a more developed sense of taste.
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# science - Friday 26 November, 2010
First global study confirms that secondhand smoke is a massive killer – and 200,000 of its victims are children.
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# science - Thursday 25 November, 2010
Medicines Board reassures that weight-loss medicine which is linked to 500 deaths was not prescribed here.
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# science - Thursday 18 November, 2010
Forget SARS, forget swine flu, forget foot-and-mouth disease… the original virus of doom is back.
# science - Friday 12 November, 2010
The animal kingdom has a new record holder – a cricket has the largest male organs in relation to its body mass.
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First a New York dad, now a Devon science buff takes photographs from space – with a helium balloon and paper plane.
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Scottish researchers have discovered the evolution of complex cells began 1.2 billion years ago – 400 million years earlier than scientists had believed.
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# science - Monday 8 November, 2010
Scientists claim to have discovered a new technique that converts skin cells into blood by injecting DNA proteins.
# science - Thursday 4 November, 2010
A pioneering new technology brings “the realms of science fiction” into the lives of people devastated by blindness.
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# science - Wednesday 3 November, 2010
New research shows that the treatment itself may double the risk.
Scientists conducting fossil research on neanderthals reveal that promiscuity and aggressiveness went hand in hand for the ancient human relatives.
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# science - Monday 1 November, 2010
UCC scientists find roots of three deadly plagues – including the one that killed almost one-third of Middle Ages Europe – travelled on Silk Road from China.
# science - Thursday 28 October, 2010
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The discovery of perfectly preserved insects in India has challenged the assumption that the country was an isolated island continent about 52 million years ago.
Want some “lovingkindness” in your life? Meditation could offer a permanent change of mind-frame.
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# science - Wednesday 27 October, 2010
NASA released incredible footage of activity on the Sun.
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# science - Friday 22 October, 2010
Those who regularly take a low dose of aspirin could be reducing their risk of developing colon cancer – Ireland’s second deadliest cancer.
# science - Friday 15 October, 2010
Easter Island has yielded a tiny new scientific discovery.
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NASA’s Hubble Telescope has captured images of a strange object in space believed to be the result of an asteroid collision.
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# science - Monday 11 October, 2010
Controversial study begins treating its first patient in the US.
The company has been working on automated cars that pull data from Google Maps to drive where you want.
# science - Thursday 7 October, 2010
Researchers discover a language spoken in the Himalayas that had never been recorded before.
# science - Wednesday 6 October, 2010
TheJournal.ie has first photograph Irish amateur astronomer took of supernova, the “biggest thing ever discovered in Irish astronomy”
# science - Tuesday 5 October, 2010
Two British-based scientists win Nobel Prize for Physics for experiments with super-thin carbon extract which might replace silicon transistors in computers
# science - Monday 27 September, 2010
Turns out city living is good for your health.
# science - Thursday 23 September, 2010
Scientists attempt to answer the question that’s been keeping us all awake at night.
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# science - Saturday 18 September, 2010
Largest planet in the Solar System will pass close to Earth on Monday & Tuesday- coinciding with an approach from Uranus and a full moon.
# science - Wednesday 15 September, 2010
Space
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Incredible timelapse video artfully depicts discoveries.
An a.m. shower; otherwise, mostly cloudy
Max: 14 °C
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Occasional rain
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Periods of clouds and sunshine
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