The Offload: Young Will Hickey making progress

George Taylor is latest player to retire from professional rugby due to brain injury

Women who stop breastfeeding failed by system that doesn’t support them

Prof Amy Brown says it is time to stop using language not helpful to women

Joanne O’Riordan: New plan needed to get women’s rugby on a level playing pitch

Watching amateurs being humiliated by pro teams won’t entice any girl to take up the sport

Feeder schools: Do they help or harm education?

Academic performance alone does not define a student’s secondary school education

Prehistoric mega-shark could have fins as large as a human

British university researchers reveal full size of extinct megalodon for first time

Thinking Anew – Where good people make a difference

Feeder Schools: the arguments around publishing progression data

Publication of data generates heated debate over the real value of the information

Academic cheating using paid-for essays ‘poses threat to integrity of third level’

Conference hears one in seven students have used ‘essay mills’

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Trillion tonne iceberg breaks away from Antarctica ice shelf

5,800 square kilometre iceberg broke off this week

The battle between women who breastfeed and women who don’t

Is Ireland ready for a revolution in its attitude to breastfeeding?

Breastfeeding not supported by society, says Swansea University professor

Just 55% of mothers in Ireland have breastfed, the lowest rate in the world

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Antidepressant use among children increases by almost 30%

Science festival hears study followed data from 358,000 patients aged between six and 18

British festival of science in Swansea: the secrets of animal behaviour captured

Tracking device provides ‘daily diary’ for an unprecedented view into creatures’ lives

Social media can hold all the information hackers need

British Science Festival hears how easy it is to retrieve important personal information