Humans are not ready to take red meat totally off the menu

Our diets may be bad for our health, but a vegetarian world would create new problems

Great white shark’s DNA ‘may help save human lives’

Scientists discover genetic mutations that help protect against cancer and other diseases

Greenland’s ice melting faster than scientists previously thought – study

Research provides fresh evidence of dangers posed to coastal areas such as Miami, Shanghai, Bangladesh

Irish university makes first Brexit-inspired academic appointment

UCC and Oxford jointly hire top quantum scientist, capitalising on uncertainty in UK

Mixed reaction to claims of first gene-edited babies immune to HIV

Chinese scientist accused of breaching guidelines on using CRISPR genome technology

It’s time to explore the immune system’s clock

Science Lives: Dr Annie Curtis of the RCSI’s strategic academic recruitment programme

World at risk of irreversible ‘hothouse’ state – scientists

Tipping point would pose ‘severe risks for health, economies, political stability’

Scientists accidentally engineer a plastic-eating enzyme

Discovery could result in recycling solution for millions of plastic bottles and containers

How researchers use Facebook ‘likes’ to sway your thinking

Algorithms can predict nuances of your political views more accurately than your loved ones

Smoke from e-cigarettes ‘damages DNA and can increase cancer risk’

Mice exposed to e-cigarette smoke had more DNA damage in heart, lungs and bladder

Ancient storms - not a tsunami - left massive boulders on western coast cliffs, study finds

Researchers compared Irish sites with location in New Zealand ravaged by a tsunami millions of years ago

Stone Age tipples: Neolithic Georgians were drinking wine 8,000 years ago

Evidence on pottery indicates winemaking started 1,000 years earlier than thought

Influential mathematician helped disprove ageist myth

Marina Ratner: mathematician, born October 30th, 1938; died July 7th, 2017

Want to be happy? Spend money on things that will save you time

Study finds buying takeaway makes you more happy than buying clothes

‘Should I keep tomatoes in the fridge?’ and more of life’s big questions

Irish consumers, send us your random queries

Scientists warn of heightened possibility of mass extinction

Researchers predict ‘biological annihilation’ as billions of populations of animals lost in recent decades

Creative advantage of youth an age-old question in science

Forties become the new 20s for physicists as Nobel-winning work takes longer to achieve

Antibiotic attains new powers in battle against superbugs

Scientists find way to make vancomycin 1,000 times more potent than old drug

Could water be the fuel of the future?

Scientists are making strides in the discovery of potentially viable solar fuel materials

Cheetah ‘more vulnerable’ than previously thought

Urgent action needed to save the fastest land animal in the world from extinction

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