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"If you are the one tasked with organising the office Christmas party, it might be wise to put away the mistletoe"

Mixing office romances and Christmas parties in the age of #MeToo

Office Politics / 03 Dec

"Pain is a subjective experience. No other person, and no test, can tell who is or is not in pain, or how severe the pain is."

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

Health / 28 Nov

"Businesses only come into being through the people who inhabit them so it's not a question of "getting everyone on board" because the employees are the boat"

Why do some companies take their employees for granted?

Work & careers / 28 Nov

Sure look, the boot works. Photo: Getty Images

The utter hell of working for a visionary

Work & careers / 25 Nov

Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan: "recent developments have prompted experts to doubt the fairness and legitimacy of Turkey's democracy"

Is Turkey becoming a hybrid regime?

Turkey / 26 Nov

Helen McCrory as Polly Gray in Peaky Blinders: "she dresses to kill (no pun intended) and makes the viewers rethink the term power dressing, all of this contributing to her iconic character."

Why Polly Gray from Peaky Blinders is a feminist icon

Peaky Blinders / 21 Nov

"One of the most interesting aspects of our accent is that it is ultimately controlled by ourselves"

What do our accents say about us?

Accents / 11 hrs

"Weight training can help to prevent injuries by strengthening and stabilising muscles, bones, ligaments and tendons and ultimately improving joint stability"

10 reasons why more women should lift weights

Fitness / 19 Nov

A refugee family leaving Memel in Lithuania in June 1939 after the German ultimatum. Photo: Getty Images

How Ireland responded to refugees fleeing Hitler and the Nazis

History / 18 Nov

A medical nanorobot at work. Photo: Getty Images

The rise of molecular machines

Biology / 15 Nov

"It is interesting to look back at the chemical compounds that were common place in household and medicinal products"

Radium, cocaine, lithium: the colourful history of some chemicals

Chemistry / 15 Nov

"Plucked from the streets of Moscow in 1957 as a 3-year-old, Laika became the first animal to orbit the earth". Photo: Getty Images

A short history of sending animals into space

animals / 13 Nov

"Using testosterone to improve athletic performance dates back to 1954, when the Russian weightlifting team injected themselves with testosterone prior to the World Weightlifting Championship in Vienna"

Everything you need to know about steroids

Brainstorm / 11 Nov

"The applications of network science to crime fighting are even more remarkable and this relatively new field of research has proven to be very efficient in studying criminal systems"

How criminal gangs could be stopped by maths

"Cleary was burned to death by her husband and family members, who claimed that they had done so to force fairies to return Cleary, whom the family believed had stolen and replaced with a changeling."

"Darkest Ireland" and the burning of Bridget Cleary

Folklore / 29 Oct

"Low quality jobs are characterised by low earnings, limited job security, poor future prospects, as well as poor social and physical work environments"

Why job quality needs to be on the employment agenda

Work & careers / 22 Oct

The cast of 2009 RTÉ One TV series Five Women Go Back to Work

Will returnships help women back to work after an extended break?

Work & careers / 18 Oct

Is it time to shake up how artists get paid by Spotify and other streaming services?

Why 90% of your streaming cash goes to acts you may not like

Music business / 14 Oct

Successful executives are often charismatic, confident and driven, characteristics sometimes linked to Antisocial Personality Disorder

My boss is a psychopath: why bad people get good jobs

Work & careers / 11 Oct

"A greater understanding of mental health illness is needed in order to ensure that negative biases do not impact upon individuals' abilities to join the workforce"

How to be a better employer when it comes to mental health

Work & careers / 09 Oct

Singstrong choirs from Nenagh, Ennis and Limerick with choir director Ciara Meade and Róisín Cahalan

How singing can lead to better lung health

Health / 03 Oct

That magic moment when one of your chips comes good in GW 32

The maths of fantasy football

Fantasy Football / 12 Sep

"Palliative care aims to improve the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with a life-threatening illness" Photo: Getty Images

Is access to palliative care a human right?

Health / 06 Sep

"A large body of research has concluded that breed-specific legislation has not worked to protect the public"

The myth of the dangerous dog breed

"From the very beginning, Live Nation pursued an expansion policy of mergers and acquisitions, buying up smaller promotions companies and venues at a tremendous rate"

Who are Live Nation, the company now behind the Electric Picnic?

Music business / 29 Aug

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