• Powerful new test for brain disorder

  A Trinity College research team has developed a powerful new indicator of developing Alzheimer's disease. The test is highly accurate but more importantly, it warns of the disease long before a patient begins to show signs of the condition. p
  

• Engineering the first steps of a career

  Engineers Ireland is preparing for its annual Week of Wonder, five days of fun events and advice on career options, writes Dick Ahlstrom p
  

• Irish experiments taken into orbit on Atlantis shuttle

  The space shuttle Atlantis blasts off later today, carrying with it two Irish experiments that will measure radiation exposure risks faced by orbiting astronauts. Ireland plays a major role in this research thanks to several decades of work by scientists at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. p
  

• Fresh threat to sea levels from polar ice melting

  Under the Microscope: If global warming melts the land-based polar ice-sheets the world will experience a disastrous rise in sea levels. However, I regret to bring you the news that the situation is even worse than that. p
  

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