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The Blob It sounds like a bad sci-fi movie but in the Pacific ocean there is a patch scientists called ‘The Blob’ that is threatening marine life. 'The Blob' is a rough circle that is growing and now 100 metres deep and 2000 kms wide…

Icelanders DNA sequenced Researchers have analysed the DNA data of the whole island of Iceland. The Researchers sequenced the whole genomes of 2,636 Icelanders and carried out less detailed genotyping for SNPs (DNA sequence variation…

Basic Science Funding in Ireland 900 scientists in Ireland have signed a petition calling on the government to change the national research strategy to incorporate basic science funding. The current strategy funds 14 specific areas of…

On Friday morning Ireland will be consumed by darkness. A zombie will wander through the streets yearning for sustenance confused by the unnatural dark skies. Well, at least I feel like a zombie at 8am in dire need of caffeine and breakfast…

The newest addition to Dublin Zoo is a brilliant bright green python which can be seen by visitors to the zoo for the first time this weekend. In the wild the Green Tree Python, or Morelia viridis, live in the rainforests of New Guinea and…

LifeLogging is the subject of the current exhibition in the Science Gallery Dublin, which explores the way in which we can use data logging to track and improve our lives. Over the next few weeks we here at HeadStuff will be exploring…

Val Logsdon Fitch, (10 March 1923 - 5 February 2015), Particle Physicist and Nobel Prize Winner in Physics, 1980. Died aged 91. “At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential…

I stood in pitch darkness. I couldn’t see it or smell it but I knew that a metre away stood a mannequin composed of compacted dried blood. Every thirty seconds a luminous drip splashed down, briefly highlighting the contours of the face,…

Ridiculous. Amusing. Laughable. These are the first words that came to mind when I saw this image of the sea monster who resembled a monk from 1642. I assumed it to be a Renaissance fantasy imagined by a sailor who had one too many…

It is called the Maker Revolution and its heart is the 3D printer. 3D printing is being hailed as the biggest change in the manufacturing process since the Industrial revolution almost 300 years ago. Not only are 3D printers changing how…