• How fish made us human

  We all know that eating fish makes you clever; now it is being argued that seafood is actually responsible for the evolution of the human mind, writes Dick Ahlstrom. p
  

• Shining a new light on cancer treatment

  UCD PhD student Aisling O'Connor has won much praise for her research into a light-based treatment for cancer, writes Dick Ahlstrom. p
  

• A brief history of pithiness

  Under the Microscope/Prof William Reville: This week, as a break from science, I offer you a selection of famous quotations. Many of these are adapted from Brewer's Famous Quotations by Nigel Rees (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2006), a treasure-trove of 5,000 quotations. p
  

• Meaning can often be found in very strange places

  Frank Wilczek has already won the Nobel Prize, and now he's setting his sights on the holy grail of physics - the Theory of Everything, writes Dick Ahlstrom. p
  

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