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12 tips to manage your emotions in tough times

"It's important to view life as a balance of both short and long"

"It was a long process to discover what C5orf30 actually did". Photo: Getty Images

How are genes named?

Can he fix it? Boris Johnson does his best Bob the Builder impersonation on the UK election campaign trail.

Get Brexit done? It's really not as simple as that

UK Election 2019

Soon to be a very rare sight: Coldplay's Chris Martin onstage in 2017

Will many acts follow Coldplay's lead when it comes to touring?

Migrants queuing for Spanish Red Cross services after their arrival at the Port of Malaga in December 2018. Photo: Getty Images

How the law itself is killing migrants at sea

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood, Ulster Unionist leader Steve Aiken, Sinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill, DUP South Belfast Candidate Emma Little-Pengelly and Alliance leader Naomi Long with UTV presenter Marc Mallett at the recording of an election debat

Do the Northern Ireland parties' election manifestos add up?

UK Election 2019

"For many loyalists, their identity is as central as their constitutional status within the UK"

The influence of loyalist paramilitaries on the UK election

Northern Ireland

"Companies need to look at their complicity in real mental health issues". Photo: Getty Images

Do employers really care about staff mental health issues?

"No-one has ever captured the Irish better than James Joyce"

What James Joyce's bones and house tell us about Irish culture

"There was incredulity about the slow pace of change, a disbelief that more was not being done and disgust that their voices and futures were being blatantly disregarded"

We asked young people why they're on climate strike. Here's why

"The lives of those living today and those living 50 or even 500 years ago share the same struggles, dilemmas and anthropological unique inner structure"

What are Industry 4.0's ethical challenges?

More Brainstorm

Brainstorm Podcast

Ideas, insights and new thinking

Ireland.

"Some will argue that such comments are part of the "hustle and bustle" of parliamentary politics, but gender-based comments are nearly always directed by men towards women"

Dealing with everyday sexism in Leinster House

Aisling authors and creators Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen

How a woman called Aisling puts modern Ireland on the ...

Dublin City Hall at night. Photo: Mayall/ullstein bild via Getty Images

What does your local council do with your money?

Local Elections 2019

Is the lord of blood-vengeance in the house?

What did the "lord of blood-vengeance" do in medieval Ireland?

Medieval Ireland

Ireland's Seamus Coleman with Stuart Dallas of Northern Ireland in the Three International Friendly at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin in November 2018. Photo: INPHO/Ryan Byrne

Irish soccer's split identity in the age of Brexit

Legislative recitals: "a danger of conflict between the actual provisions contained. and its politically-motivated purpose". Photo: Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Making laws in Ireland after Brexit

Edna O'Brien and Louise O'Neill

Country Girls: the ties that link Edna O'Brien and Louise ...

Podcasts.

"There is growing evidence that young players and athletes thrive on a mixture of challenge and support"

Why do so many young sports stars fail to become Superchamps?

"Kids don't necessarily need the latest Buzz Lightyear or Woody or Paw Patrol to play"

Why risky play is good for kids

Is it time to give nuclear power a chance?

Back pain: are you saying it's all in my head?

Why does the State have so many secrets on its citizens?

Top tips and tricks to become a better fantasy football manager

Can strategic use of the Bench Boost, Free Hit and Triple Captain chips really increase your points total?

Ideas.

"New skin care products containing probiotics or prebiotics claim a multitude of benefits from delivering healthier more radiant skin to treating conditions like acne, eczema and body odour"

Why is the beauty business getting dirty?

Cosmetics developers are trying to harness the link between bacteria and healthy skin to create new skin care products

"Online, it is not just celebrities who are expected to behave like celebrities" Photo: Getty Images

We're all celebrities now

Celebrity culture

The moment when you realise you've ran out of shower gel

The science of horror movies

"Some Chinese characters are extremely complicated and can contain up to 58 strokes, while knowledge of a minimum of 3,500 characters is required to understand those used in day-to-day life." Photo: iStock

How hard is it to learn Chinese?

Bloody Sunday in Derry 1972. Photo: Stanley Matchett

The art of documenting war and conflict

Climate Change.

"Thunberg's trans-Atlantic journey...helped to shine a light on the uncomfortable realities of human-induced global warming"

The Greta effect

"Despite their popularity with media producers, images of polar bears may not be an effective way to engage the public with climate change"

No more polar bears: the impact of climate change visuals

"Climate change can seem too enormous to deal with and too distant to be relevant so making connections to local problems can be very effective" Photo: Getty Images

How to talk to your mates about climate change

"In the past there was a strong bias against forestry in Ireland"

Can we plant 22 million trees a year?

"There are lots of people who think they are recycling properly and who are not"

What really happens to our recycling?

A model walks the runway during the Saint Laurent show at Paris Fashion Week in February 2019. Photo: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images

The battle between fast fashion and sustainable fashion

Branching out: will climate change mean the end of the line for the Blue Tit?

Is climate change making our birds extinct?

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Editor's Choice.

The absolute value of the earth's gravity was measured in the Crawford Observatory 50 years ago. Photo: UCC

How Cork keeps Ireland's feet on the ground

KBC's Johan Thijs: "what is still an annoying thing is the whole tracker mortgage stuff"

Are banks and bankers capable of changing their tune?

"Increasingly, tourists want to engage with the local and the success of Airbnb is a testament to this"

10 myths about modern tourism