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Using maths to fight fraudulent motor insurance claims

Is it possible to harness the data produced by computer-enabled car components to gain an impartial understanding of a car crash?

How to provide better mental health services for young people

Youth Mental Health

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Fact check: does coffee really cause cancer?

Artwork by Joe Caslin on the RTÉ campus as part of The Big Picture series focusing on youth mental health in Ireland

The street theatre of Joe Caslin's art

Teenagers who have committed motoring offences taking a road safety course in April 1975 Photo: Watford/Mirrorpix via Getty Images

Why kids will stop driving cars

How empathy education in schools can benefit everyone

Elon Musk in interview mode. Photo: Chris Saucedo/Getty Images for SXSW

The utter hell of working for a visionary

The problem of congested airports poses an obstacle to economic development, as well as the health and budgets of air passengers

Why congested airports are bad for your health and pocket

On the road

The earth from space photographed by spacecraft Galileo 11, December 1992 from a distance of 1.9 million km Photo: Universal History Archive

How to recreate Planet Earth with 90 grams of DNA

Bishop Michael Browne's legacy: Galway Cathedral. Photo: Joe Travers

Cross Michael: the bishop who took on the Mother & Child Scheme

Catholic Church

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The Big Picture.

How to provide better mental health services for young people

Youth Mental Health

Artwork by Joe Caslin on the RTÉ campus as part of The Big Picture series focusing on youth mental health in Ireland

The street theatre of Joe Caslin's art

How empathy education in schools can benefit everyone

Ireland.

How Irish writers predicted the future

Involvement in PESCO projects will likely mean an increase in the Irish defence budget

What will EU defence project PESCO mean for Ireland?

The trouble with Bono

Going up: the winters of 2013/14 and 2015/16 were the two wettest winters in the 305 year series

Wet, wet, wet: last decade saw most rainfall in 300 ...

Rebuilding work in May 1918 on Dublin's Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street). Photo: R. Humphrey/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images

Remembering 1918 in Ireland

Why are Irish electricity prices so high?

Electricity Prices

John Tussaud working on a model of George Bernard Shaw in 1930. Photo: General Photographic Agency/Getty Images

"My specialty is being right when other people are wrong"

George Bernard Shaw

Ideas.

A chemist explains how plastic-eating bacteria actually work

Trade wars: what's the meaning of unfair trade?

How do we measure the impact of research?

Wikipedians are the beach cleaners of the internet

An Irish Cambridge Analytica? Not if we get our ethics in order

Cambridge Analytica

Research Lab.

The earth from space photographed by spacecraft Galileo 11, December 1992 from a distance of 1.9 million km Photo: Universal History Archive

How to recreate Planet Earth with 90 grams of DNA

Thanks to various scientific and technological breakthroughs, we're now at a stage where we could see the making of new worlds in the universe

Why are cancer cells attracted to the bone marrow?

The complicated business of publishing academic research

Can kids spot fake news when it comes to health claims?

The dark side to bright light

Artificial light

Editor's Choice.

What the Communion season tells us about Irish society

Arkle running in the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1966

Odds on: a short history of bookmaking in Ireland

Cheltenham Festival