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Rosheen Sharma, a fourth-year student at Rockford Manor Secondary School, Blackrock, Co Dublin, with a water vortex as the final preparations are made for the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition at the RDS. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/ The Irish Times
Rosheen Sharma, a fourth-year student at Rockford Manor Secondary School, Blackrock, Co Dublin, with a water vortex as the final preparations are made for the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition at the RDS. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/ The Irish Times
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Kevin O'Sullivan

Kevin O'Sullivan

Kevin O'Sullivan is Environment and Science Editor and former editor of The Irish Times