• Switching on a super power

  The 'best of the best' scientific projects will get access to a new Irish supercomputer, which is being installed this week. It will give the country a major boost on the world stage, writes Dick Ahlstrom p
  

• Getting a cleaner, greener form of research

  Ordinary office printers can be used to create sensors which can help to monitor the environment and detect disease. How can it work? Claire O'Connell reports p
  

• Many splits divisive

  Under the Microscope: Surely one of the strangest ideas ever produced by science is the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics proposed in 1957 by Princeton University graduate student Hugh Everett III. In brief, the interpretation proposes that, whenever numerous viable possibilities exist, the world splits into many worlds, one for each different possibility, and each world then develops independently, writes Dr William Reville p
  

• Thinking small about big issues

  Physicists are producing new materials that can be used to develop the next generation of nanotechnology-based semiconductors and sensors, writes Anna Nolan p
  

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