An Irish perspective: James Watson (1928-2025) – the DNA titan with a downside
Too often in old age, he made unjustified racial remarks in highly offensive ways with immense ‘titanic’ public consequences
Cambridge University
Appreciation: Prof Michael Coey, known for his engaging lectures and inquiring intellect
Leaves legacy spanning academic, scientific and cultural life of Ireland and beyond
Conor Gearty: Law professor, barrister and globally acclaimed human rights scholar
Longford-born civil liberties advocate was appointed honorary queen’s counsel in recognition of services to law in England and Wales
Lucy Caldwell: ‘People often misunderstand the appeal of a short story’
Lucy Caldwell celebrates the undervalued art of the short story
Goliath’s Curse: Powerful if uneven portrait of societal collapse sings the praises of Irish Citizens’ Assembly
According to Luke Kemp’s learned, provocative and deeply unsettling book about how societies come crashing down, today’s equivalent of Goliath is staring us in the mirror
The forgotten heroine behind the double helix
Rosalind Franklin’s contribution to discovering the structure of life’s genetic material rarely receives more mention than a footnote
State’s new research agency chief Diarmuid O’Brien comes with strong track record and deep experience
Appointment of Cambridge-based scientist brings to close turbulent period following dismissal of Prof Philip Nolan
Author Seán Hewitt: ‘I want to make a small case for bringing beautiful things to the centre of the novel again’
The poet and author discusses the aesthetics of his writing, his relationship to Irishness, and his liberating debut novel, Open, Heaven
Athens faces a geopolitical balancing act in having to please China, the US and Europe
Greece Letter: Country’s location, alliances and internal upheavals demand the very best of statesmanship from Mitsotakis
Go with the flow: How lateral flow tests are becoming a diagnostic game changer
We use LFTs to detect Covid, but they could also be used to detect cholesterol, stroke and sepsis
Students must learn to be more than mindless ‘machine-minders’
Generative AI is a tempting short-cut that can prevent those at university from gaining foundational skills
Turning ideas into technology: the value of university-business links
Knowledge intensive companies can benefit from their co-location with strong academic centres
AS Byatt obituary: Not an academic who wrote a novel, but a novelist who was brilliant academically
Tragedy struck in the early 1970s, when her only son, Charles, who had just turned 11, was killed by a drunken driver
Stolen skulls finally come home to Inishbofin after 133 years for poignant burial ceremony
Simple coffin carried the 13 skulls to the ruins of St Colman’s Abbey, where they had been spirited away by anthropologist Alfred Cort Haddon in 1890
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