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YouTube is a rabbit hole of endless clicks from one video to the next. This need not be unproductive time however. Amongst the rough are diamonds. Here’s part 2 of our list of sparkly YouTubers who will dazzle and entertain you with YouTube…

Diving down the rabbit hole of YouTube may lose you hours but that doesn’t mean time wasted. Throwing some science trivia into a conversation can impress potential lovers and make you appear far more knowledgeable than you actually are.…

In my day Pluto was a planet. One of the nine planets in our solar system I learnt off by heart: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. If any planet deserved to be kicked off the special planet list it was…

Bill Gates & Spanish Influenza Bill Gates, in an interview with Vox, has urged humanity to take the threat of massive flu pandemics more seriously. He says that this is the most likely major killer of humans in the future. The…

The problem with the phrase Smart Cities is that it makes the rest of us sound dumb complained one of the speakers at the Pint of Science Smart Cities night. In fact, the audience were told that Ireland’s agriculture industry is as high…

After the #hangoverforequality ended, my scientific curiosity rebooted and I wondered why I cried so much over the weekend? I wasn’t sad, I was delighted! I was ecstatic! In Leo Varadkar's words, I was part of a social revolution.…

Data are like pick up sticks. Before you sort and analyse they are just a mass of sticks, all different colours and sizes scattered on the floor. You can’t infer much about the group of sticks from one stick alone. But one by one, you pick…

NASA tackles climate change NASA scientists have said that by 2040 the hole in the ozone layer, now 12 million square miles wide, will have shrunk by another 4 million square miles. By the end of the 21st century the hole should have…

New Asthma breakthrough Asthmatics could soon see a major change in their treatment. To date asthma sufferers have been treated for their symptoms after they appear but a new paper published in Science Translational Medicine identified a…

April 22nd, is Earth Day. It is not just another Hallmark Holiday as the idea of killing trees to tell someone to do their bit for the environment is, unsurprisingly, against the whole ethos. Earth Day sprung from the 1970s environmental…