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The trials and humiliations of Theresa May

How can we explain the British prime minister's ability to carry on despite a constant wave of attacks, onslaughts and setbacks?

Santa examines the latest missive

Dear Santa, can I have Brand X?

Dreaming up the future at Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey

What did 2018 look like in 1968?

We're on the radio again

Brainstorm on the radio - episode 3

Brainstorm Radio Show

From the Brown Thomas Christmas window display in Dublin 2016. Photo: Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images

What do window displays and the Wizard of Oz have in common?

Window displays

The changing face of pester power

Conversations about intimacy, disability and illness are improving in ways

Intimacy, illness and disability

What are the potential adverse effects for brain health posed by obesity?

Does belly fat affect our brain health as we age?

Social anxiety in the bagging area

Are you being served? How self-service machines cause anxiety

Kilkenny Castle. Photo: Kevin Lonergan

What to do with a conundrum like Kilkenny?

More Brainstorm

Brainstorm Radio Show

Listen to the latest episode of the Brainstorm radio show presented by Fionnuala Sweeney

Christmas.

When all your pals on the 12 Pubs procession decide to dress the same. Photo: Kena Betancur AFP/Getty Images

The quasi-religious rites and rituals of the 12 Pubs

12 Pubs of Christmas

From the Brown Thomas Christmas window display in Dublin 2016. Photo: Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images

What do window displays and the Wizard of Oz have in common?

Window displays

Dear Santa, can I have Brand X?

Is it Christmas yet? Music's role in making cash registers ring

Why It's A Wonderful Life still resonates today

Ireland.

How excessive investment messed up the Irish housing market

Historical re-enactment of a surgeon operating on an archer who was wounded during an attack by the Mamluks on the monastery of the Order of the Hospitallers (1250-1291) in Acre in Israel. Photo: DeAgostini/ Getty Images

What was it like to go to the doctor in ...

Mural on a Mumbai wall of Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan from his classic film Deewar. Photo: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/ Getty Images

Why Ireland should catch up with Bollywood

Look up, it's probably an airline run by an Irish person

Why do so many airlines have Irish bosses?

Why the process of appointing judges really matters

On the march: a protest in Derry in December 1968

How revolutionary was Ireland in 1968?

How maths can help to deal with hospital overcrowding

Hospital Overcrowding

Ideas.

Keep your eyes on the hand

5 ways to tell a great story about science

Who wants to live forever?

Are you an adolescent until your mid-twenties?

Do we really want 20 hour non-stop flights?

5 things you didn't know about psychopaths like Villanelle

Brexit.

How will Brexit impact on Irish universities?

Will the

Up, up and not away: how Brexit could cause air ...

Aviation Industry

Has Brexit brought a united Ireland closer?

The highest remain vote of the Brexit referendum came from Gibraltar

Gibraltar: the other major difficulty in Brexit negotiations

Delia Breen, who works in a money exchange office at the border between Newry and Dundalk. Photo: Paul Faith/AFP /Getty Images

What will happen to cross-border shopping after Brexit?

Cross-border shopping

A mug's game?

The strange case of Brexit and British sovereignty

A union jack flag hung from a lamp post near the Irish border in Fermanagh. Photo: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images

The Brexit poll which reveals how Britain views Northern Ireland

Research Lab.

How our footsteps could be used for security and health checks

Why does the mind wander?

How does the brain control what we eat?

Why Irish honey is the bees' knees

Can lack of sleep lead to heart disease?

More Research Lab

Editor's Choice.

South Korean president Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before their meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea in September 2018. Photo: Pyeongyang Press Corps/Pool/Getty Images

Why declaring peace is such a big deal

How hard is it to learn Chinese?

A Midsummer Night's Dream was performed by Rough Magic at the Kilkenny Arts Festival. Photo: Ste Murray

Has Irish theatre finally made peace with Shakespeare?