• Cyborg professor comes to Dublin

  Conceptions on division between man and machine are challenged by Prof Kevin Warwick, who is part robot, part human. Dick Ahlstrom reports p
  

• Nobel Prize winner to deliver lecture in Cork

  Harvard professor helped locate 'cosmic background microwave radiation' left over from the Big Bang, writes Dick Ahlstrom p
  

• Exploring the secrets of the black holes

  New Earth-bound telescopes that will help us understand black holes are being built in Arizona with help from Irish research teams, writes Dick Ahlstrom p
  

• Equality of the sexes is revealed in ancient diet

  Under the Microscope: Since the 18th century, a tradition has grown in anthropology that pictures women playing a dominant role in early agricultural society. However, recent archaeological findings in Turkey call for a radical revision in this simple picture. Expanded details can be consulted in Scientific American, January 2004. p
  

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