Covid-19 audio documentary wins 2021 Mary Mulvihill prize
DCU student’s ‘moving’ documentary was inspired by photograph of stand-off in Peru
NUI Galway student does the maths to win Mary Mulvihill Award
James Hayes (17) wins prize for imaginative essay on the man who discovered Quaternions
New science in old places: Museums are crucial part of scientific research
‘Museum collections are key to understanding biodiversity over the last few centuries’
Irish scientists celebrated in Mary Mulvihill award winner’s work
Illustrator and Trinity student Laura Katharine Finnegan wins 2019 prize
Journalism competition focuses on the love of science
Third year of awards celebrating legacy of ‘Irish Times’ science writer Mary Mulvihill
Michael Viney: Is starry stonewort a native species that knows its place?
Genetic fingerprinting may be needed to trace the stonewort to the reedy channels of East Anglia
Record sales for Standard Life Ireland, parent preps for ‘Brexit’
Insurer’s Irish subsidiary sees full-year sales jump 20 per cent to €1.36bn
Another Life: The lost treasures of the dead zoo
Stephen Jay Gould loved the natural history museum in Dublin, with its gleaming glass cabinets. But a financial crisis has forced it to close two floors. How marvellous it would be to see its full trove again
Dublin’s magnificent Dead Zoo is not as lively as it should be
The museum holds two million specimens – including a dodo skeleton, an even rarer solitaire bird and a death’s-head hawkmoth – but a lack of funds means only 10,000 are on display
Another Life: St Patrick and the puzzle of Ireland’s snakes
There is no climatic reason why at least one species shouldn’t flourish here – but references to our lack of snakes date back to as long ago as the third century
Irish contribution to space race to go on display to public
Experiment developed by Dublin scientists flew to the moon in 1972 with Apollo 16
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