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"It is important to understand farmers' views on adaptation of rural and agricultural areas as they are the central decision-makers with respect to making their farm more resilient or adaptive to the effects of climate change."

What are Irish farmers' views on climate change?

Farming • 24 Nov

"The high prevalence of deficiency in this country is living proof that optimal vitamin D levels cannot be achieved through our low sunlight exposure and poor dietary intakes alone."

What we know about low Vitamin D levels and high Covid-19 rates

Vitamin D • 24 Nov

"The reality is that we have not even tried to read, let alone understand, the terms and conditions that apply."

The biggest lie online: why we ignore legal terms and conditions

Consumer Affairs • 19 Nov

"While men may get flu more often than women, they get much milder infections in general than women"

Are men more likely than women to get infectious diseases?

Health • 12 Nov

Those curtains will have to go: Joe Biden in the Oval Office in 2015

Joe Biden may win the White House, but where was the 'blue wave'?

US Election 2020 • 06 Nov

"A recent study of several healthcare centres in the US found that 72% of Covid patients received antibiotics even though only only 7% had a bacterial infection."

How Covid-19 will increase the problem of antibiotic resistance

Health • 04 Nov

"There is nothing Donald Trump fears more than being labelled a loser"

You're fired: is Donald Trump set to become a presidential loser?

US Election 2020 • 02 Nov

All aboard: passengers on a mail car near Black's Royal Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway circa 1880. From Old Ireland In Colour (Merrion Press)

Why we turned Ireland's black and white past into colour

Ireland • 30 Oct

"The aim of scenario planniung is to find futures which stretched and challenged our sense of what was possible"

What could Europe look like 30 years from now?

Europe • 16 Oct

Future mathematical women at work

Meet Ireland's pioneering mathematical women

Maths • 12 Oct

"Survey respondents consistently said that threats of fines, arrest, and quarantine are least likely to persuade them to practice self-isolation or social distancing"

What should the Government do to combat Covid fatigue?

Coronavirus • 07 Oct

"Young people need to socialise so don't be surprised when they conform to a cultural norm, such as binge drinking, when they do this." Photo: Getty Images

We need to talk about Ireland's problem with alcohol

alcohol • 01 Oct

Joe Caslin's Resilient/Resilience installation

Just what exactly is resilience anyway?

Psychology • 06 Oct

NUI Galway: "the coronavirus pandemic has made a difficult operating environment for higher education much tougher"

University challenge: higher education faces some tough questions

Education • 29 Sep

If those walls could talk...

A short history of unparliamentary behaviour in Dáil Eireann

History • 02 Sep

What's going on inside a child's brain?

Podcast • 20 Aug

"Since the course of sepsis is characterised by hyper-inflammation, maybe we can use a worm's know-how to counteract this?" Photo: Getty Images

Could parasitic worms help cure a blood infection like sepsis?

Health • 19 Aug

GPT-3: 'you type some text to it and it responds with text'

Is GPT-3 the big leap forward for AI?

technology • 12 Aug

A scene from the Abbey Theatre's 1942 production of Sean O'Casey's The Plough And The Stars featuring FJ Mc Cormick, Joan Plunkett, Austin Meldon, Eric Gorman and others. Photo: Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

How theatre promotes conversations around social injustice

Brainstorm • 05 Aug

John Hume addresses a meeting in Derry following violence at the Apprentice Boy Parade, August 1969. Photo: Mirrorpix via Getty Images

John Hume: the Derry boy who went global

John Hume • 03 Aug

Tuam Mother and Baby Home survivor Teresa O'Sullivan as a baby

What the Tuam Oral History Project tells us about Ireland's past

History • 30 Jul

LPT, ARV, LAF, VSL SVT, WTF?

Local property tax: a guide to the A to Z of LPT

Taxation • 24 Jul

Made to measure: British prime minister Boris Johnson in a Marks & Spencer store in London in June

How the UK made a mess of responding and reacting to the pandemic

Politics • 22 Jul

"Today, most subsidiaries are multi-business campuses with diversified sites and a collection of activities that serve multiple businesses"

The changing world of a multinational subsidiary in Ireland

Business • 20 Jul

When two tribes go to war: US president Donald Trump with Chinese president Xi Jinping at the G20 Summit in Osaka in June 2019. Photo: Getty Images

Are China and the US on the brink of a Cold War?

Politics • 17 Jul

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