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We all know that technology is developing rapidly in our lifetime. Even ten years ago few of us could have predicted that we would be carrying around touchscreen computers more powerful than the bulky desktops of the day in our pockets.…

Sunday June 21, 15 Hello again from Ohio, Weather this week has been CRAZY- thunder storms, power shortages. It's getting quite humid here this time of year, but from speaking to the locals, it seems that this isn’t your average Ohio…

Sunday, June 14, 15 Hi all, Greetings from the stunning campus of Ohio University, Athens Ohio. I’m here because this is the host site for the International Space University’s annual Space Studies Programme, a 9 week intensive…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

It’s been a while since there has been a Shot of Science and a lot has happened since the last one! Rosetta mission reveals findings from 67P Keeping up with the very latest science news, we really can’t ignore the…

2014 has really been a spectacular year for science, combined with increasing popularity and communication of science itself, it really seems that scientific discoveries are becoming household conversation. So I asked some of HeadStuff's…