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  A breakthrough in predicting where potholes will appear on our roads should help to cut the massive cost of repairing them, writes Dick Ahlstrom. p
  

• Anti-tumour compound is a plastic panacea

  DUBLIN CHEMISTS have converted a compound normally used in plastics manufacture into what could prove a very powerful anti-cancer drug. If all goes to plan, this compound, titanocene Y, could become the first successful chemotherapy agent against advanced kidney cancer. p
  

• We can do science, and here's some of the evidence

  UNDER THE MICROSCOPE: IT IS NOT commonly appreciated that Ireland has a proud scientific heritage, but I hope that two recent publications will, at least to some extent, reverse this situation. p
  

• 18 famous Irish scientists World class players

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