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Cooking the books: the recipe for a successful cookbook

Cookbooks / 19 hrs

"One simple explanation is the need for warmth at night during the winter: the birds need to gather together at warmer sites and roost in close proximity just to stay alive." Photo: Menno Schaefer/ Shutterstock

The science behind starlings' spectacular acrobatics

Starlings / 12 Feb

All set for the Year of the Pig. Photo: Keith Mayhew/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

The whole hog: how to celebrate the Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year / 04 Feb

It's not known if Brendan Behan was a fan of Dry January

Goodbye Dry January, hello hangover

Health / 30 Jan

$Models from the Vozrastnet (Ageless) modelling agency showing clothes from Dmitry Vinokurov's collection for older women at Moscow Fashion Week. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev\TASS via Getty Images$

What do older women want from fashion?

Fashion / 22 Jan

"Current figures indicate that over 900,000 people in Ireland live with some type of arthritis making it the biggest cause of disability"

All you ever wanted to know about arthritis

Arthritis / 18 Jan

On the run: "canine venereal disease tumours consist not of the host individual's cells, but of the cells from a dog that originally lived thousands of years ago."

Who let the dogs out? Meet Candie, the oldest dog on the planet

"Social jetlag is often most pronounced in "owls", those individuals who are active at night and prefer late bedtime and later wake times."

Are you suffering from social jetlag?

Would you risk it for a biscuit?

Why are some snakes deadlier than others?

Snakes / 08 Jan

"There is no life without carbohydrates"

Why you should love carbs and sugar

Health / 09 Jan

"We need to think big about the 1,440 minutes across the day and the world we inhabit"

New year, new you: thinking big and starting small

New Year New You / 02 Jan

Coming to your gaff next week

Gobble gobble: why Ireland goes mad for turkey at Christmas

Farming / 18 Dec 18

"Children can act as both consumers and influencers, as well as being the customers of tomorrow." Photo: iStock

The changing face of pester power

marketing / 14 Dec 18

Santa examines the latest missive

Dear Santa, can I have Brand X?

Christmas / 12 Dec 18

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

We're all celebrities now

Celebrity culture / 07 Dec 18

What's for lunch? A young mountain gorilla on the edge of the Volcanoes National Park in northern Rwanda. Photo: Shane McGuinness

Meet the crop-raiding gorillas of Rwanda

Rwanda / 07 Dec 18

"It will be a challenge to develop software which is 100% unbiased and can truly contribute to workplace equality". Photo: iStock

Is tech a friend or foe when it comes to workplace equality?

technology / 22 Nov 18

Could self-healing asphalt bring an end to road repairs?

Are potholes about to become a thing of the past?

Potholes / 23 Nov 18

"How do we unlock these emotions, the likes and dislikes? How do we lift them out of the unconscious mind without asking direct questions?"

How do we explain our likes and dislikes around food?

Food / 20 Nov 18

Only 13% of directors in Irish companies listed on the Dublin stock exchange are women leaving us out-of-step with social progress

Are Irish boards missing a trick when it comes to women?

Brainstorm / 19 Nov 18

The blue-ringed octopus, Hapalochlaena maculosa, is one of the world's most venomous creatures and its blue rings warn predators of its deadly nature.

Under the sea: your guide to octopus, squid and cuttlefish

Marine animals / 16 Nov 18

"Historical records mention that the Vikings also took slaves to sell - and some of those slaves were women"

How DNA tells a story about Vikings and human trafficking

DNA / 16 Nov 18

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 medieval Ireland?

Medicine / 16 Nov 18

Showing some leg: Robert Howard demonstrates a very effective Taekwon-Do strike

The physics of martial arts

Martial arts / 16 Nov 18

"We spend a considerable amount of time dreaming and daydreaming"

Why does the mind wander?

Psychology / 15 Nov 18

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