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How lifelong cholesterol levels can harm or help your heart
The longer you have high levels of ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol, the greater your risk of a heart attack
Did death cheat Stephen Hawking of a Nobel Prize?
Black holes behave as the physicist predicted. But the ultimate award is beyond his reach
Do these photos make you want to scratch yourself? And could you stomach a ‘pus volcano’?
Scientists are working out the causes of our itchy defence response to creepy-crawlies
Pfizer vaccine offers strong protection after first dose – FDA
Analysis shows protection kicks in earlier and works regardless of race, weight or age
Maths prodigy Terence Tao does battle with conjecture
2020 Hamilton lecture to be delivered via video link from Los Angeles
‘Mathematics seems too often to be about learning rules’
The ‘Mozart of math’ Terry Tao will deliver this year’s Royal Irish Academy Hamilton Lecture
California wildfires: Three dead, 64,000 on verge of evacuation
Wind-driven blazes in all US west-coast states destroy thousands of homes, kill at least seven
Coronavirus: Who gets a vaccine first? US considers contentious question of race
Vaccine could take months to distribute widely, leaving difficult choices for health officials
Particle physics gives maths potentially powerful new tool
Mathematical analysis of how neutrinos interact with matter prompts discovery
‘Potentially historic’: Dangerous winds expected as fires burn across California
Fresh evacuations force 50,000 people in the northern San Francisco away from homes
‘I have something to tell you – I want you to see my back’
Psychotherapy can help reverse habitual behaviours that are bad for your health
Half the movies at Toronto Film Festival are made by women
The number of female directors in the film business remains stubbornly low
How devices such as Google Glass can be used to help children with autism
The technology may help children understand emotions and engage in more direct ways with others
The intriguing link between sensitivity to physical and psychological pain
Everybody hurts? Not Jo Cameron, who often needs to be told if she is bleeding or bruised
Would you like to be the first Traveller president? ‘I wouldn’t say no’
Dr Sindy Joyce speaks about appointment to Council of State
Are germs in your gut influencing the brain?
The body’s microbial community may be playing a role in dementia and autism
The bamboo ceiling: Hollywood’s problem with Asian actors
Scarlett Johansson in ‘Ghost in the Shell’, Matt Damon in ‘The Great Wall’: even after #OscarsSoWhite the movies still stereotype and whitewash Asian actors
Researchers refining radiation therapy to counter cancer
Researchers at the University of Limerick are testing a groundbreaking sensor aimed at ensuring that tumours – and not healthy tissue – receive the correct radiation dose
Bahá’is campaign for educational freedom in Iran
Call for Irish universities to recognise ‘illegal’ qualifications of persecuted minority
Moving heaven and earth to find a cure for spinal injury
Blind and paralysed athlete Mark Pollock is racing to find a cure for spinal injury, with help from a global network
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