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# experiments - Tuesday 19 November, 2019
Professor Luke O'Neill on how to get your children interested in science (plus: two experiments to try at home)
The Irish professor of biochemistry has written a new book aimed at children, which is nominated for an An Post Irish Book Award.
# experiments - Monday 28 August, 2017
UCC spent €200,000 in 2016 on rabbits, rats, pigs, and birds which were used in live experiments
A further €3,000 was spent on the disposal of the animal carcasses once the experiments had concluded.
# experiments - Friday 11 November, 2016
5 nifty science experiments you can do at home with the kids
Weird science.
# experiments - Monday 18 August, 2014
Few are happy with Twitter's latest experiment with favourites
An experiment that turns favourites of people you follow into retweets has annoyed many of its users.
# experiments - Friday 1 August, 2014
NASA aims to produce oxygen on Mars with 2020 rover experiment
As part of experiments carried out by NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, researchers will look at whether Martian air could be converted for astronauts to breathe.
# experiments - Thursday 3 July, 2014
Facebook carried out hundreds of tests on users with few limits
The experiments, carried out by Facebook’s Data Science team, covered topics like the causes of loneliness, how social behaviours spread through networks, and ‘political mobilisation messages.’
# experiments - Thursday 30 January, 2014
This doodle reveals what scientists are REALLY up to in the labs
We thought we knew but we were wrong. SO wrong.
# experiments - Friday 17 January, 2014
Google developing smart contact lens that will aid diabetics
The company is currently testing prototypes contact lenses that can measure glucose levels in tears.
# experiments - Thursday 28 November, 2013
Twitter could be trying to predict the next viral tweet
The @magicstats account predicts which tweets will become popular by favouriting them.
# experiments - Saturday 16 February, 2013
The history of the two-headed dog experiment
The stuffed dog toured Germany for the past two years but is now back in Riga’s Museum of History of Medicine. Here’s its full story.
# experiments - Thursday 24 January, 2013
Research chimpanzees to be 'retired' in the US
A ‘Chimp Haven’ has been constructed to house the chimps as only 50 to be left in studies and “invasive” research to be phased out.
# experiments - Tuesday 9 October, 2012
French and American scientists win Nobel Physics Prize
“I was walking with my wife [and] when I saw the Swedish area code, I realised,” said one of this year’s winners.
# experiments - Tuesday 30 August, 2011
Shocking US experiments on Guatemalans revealed
The experiments took place in the 1940s and included people being injected with syphilis and other illnesses, by what were described as “unethical” researchers.
# experiments - Friday 8 July, 2011
Space shuttle Atlantis - the Irish connections
An Irish science blog has uncovered the many links between the final space shuttle mission and our fair isle.
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Poll: Do you prefer sunshine or rainy days?
WELL, IT’S BEEN a week of blue skies across the country, with little rain in sight.
While it’s forecast to be colder over the weekend than in recent days, conditions, for the most part, are due to remain dry and sunny.
Temperatures today are to range between 9 and 15 degrees.
With little to no rain in sight at the moment, we’re wondering – are you itching for a rainy day? Or are you loving the sunshine?
So, today we want to know: Do you prefer sunshine or rainy days?
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Sunshine, definitely (9705)
I like both (1750)
Rain, for sure (766)
I actually prefer snow more than anything (534)
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Larry Donnelly: Kennedy vs Markey could be the last throw of the dice for the Irish American dynasty
By Larry Donnelly - @LarryPDonnelly
The Kennedy vs Markey battle is the distraction from Covid-19 we all need, says Larry Donnelly.
Opinion: Economic activity is primed to resume after Covid-19. In the meantime, it’s about survival
By Robert Sweeney
A 'virtual birthday' and an over-walked dog: One Irish mammy's experience of Covid-19 distancing
By Amanda Magnier
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