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The Atlantic Size isn’t everything. May 8, 2021 Share Life, for most of us, ends far too soon—hence the effort by biomedical researchers to find ways to delay the aging process and extend our stay on Earth. But there’s a paradox at the heart of the science of aging: The vast majority of research focuses on fruit flies, nematode worms, and laboratory mice, because they’re easy to work with and lots of genetic tools are available. And yet, a major reason that geneticists chose these species in the first place is because they have short lifespans. In effect, we’ve been learning about l...

This week Kathriona Devereux  felt a strange connection with a completely different, less adorably fluffy, species - bats!

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator Erich Jarvis and members of the Vertebrate Genome Project (VGP) published high-quality genomes of 25 species, a milestone in an effort to read the complete genetic sequences of every known vertebrate species.

Updated / Friday, 18 Dec 2020 12:30 So you want to know about what happens on Christmas Eve, do you? Irish school kids ask questions about what Santa does on Christmas Eve and a bunch of scientists try to provide the answers There are a lot of known unknowns about what exactly Santa Claus gets up to every Christmas Eve. The Today show on RTÉ Radio One asked a bunch of kids at St Enda's primary school on Whitefriar Street in Dublin for some questions about Santa, his reindeers and everything else. Dr Shane Bergin and his scientist colleagues attempted to answer them. Ho, ho, ho.