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Socialising Science | Brian Cox, Override and Reviews
With so many science & curiosity-themed events happening regularly across the country and abroad, we try to capture them on ‘Socialising Science’ with video and a few words. And if you have an event you’d like to include, email…
Socialising Science | Seeing Bright Club
With so many science & curiosity-themed events happening regularly across the country and abroad, we try to capture them on ‘Socialising Science’ with video and a few words. And if you have an event you’d like to include, email…
Socialising Science | Upcoming Science Events July 16-24
MOONSHOT- An Evening with NASA Astronaut Al Worden July 16th at 8.30pm
Now here’s a treat for those of you in the Limerick vicinity. Saturday July 16th, Lough Gur Science Group will host an exclusive evening event with NASA Apollo 15…
Socialising Science | A Round Up Of Science Events
With so many science events happening regularly across the country, its seems timely to write a new column here at HeadStuff that summarises and reports on as many as we can. ‘Socialising Science’ column will capture a flavour of the range…
Shot of Scientist | Calling All Scientists
Scientists!
We know you’re passionate folk, curious about the world, but sometimes your friends and family don’t really get what it is you do on a day-to-day basis. HeadStuff Science would like to help.
We're looking for scientists to…
Shot of Scientist | Niamh Kavanagh Famelab Winner
For Niamh Kavanagh, a life in science started with a fountain. Not of knowledge, nor even of youth, but a magic fountain.
Niamh was part way through a physics degree at University College Cork and needed to choose a topic for an upcoming…
Crystals Reveal Earth’s Violent Ancient Past
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have confirmed that the oldest dated minerals on Earth were formed by asteroid impacts. This is pretty exciting because it makes our geological history a little more coherent (which is more than we…
Earth Day – Have you ever wanted to be a tree?
Earth Day is upon us and instead of being doom and gloom about the woes of the environment here are three out-of-the-box ways that human kind is dreaming up to help.
I y-urn to be a tree!
Have you ever fancied becoming a tree? Well now…
Try tai chi with your granny!
If you're the type of person that gravity gets the best of too often and fear that it will only get worse as you get older, tai chi may be the answer for you.
A study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society showed that…
Mercury is a giant pencil and ExoMars launches!
Mercury is basically a giant pencil
In the stationery cupboard that is our solar system, Mercury is the pencil. Data acquired from the MESSENGER probe, which finished its mission by crashing into Mercury in 2015, has been analysed and…