Boris Johnson has poked fun at the Brexit impasse by asking if an atomic microscope could be used to split the deadlock on future cross-border trade.

Students putting the final touches to projects for next month’s BT Young Scientist competition have the added incentive of up to €2,000 each towards a university education.

One of Ireland’s top young scientists says students want to see schools becoming more digitally focussed during class time.

STUDENTS have been making an exhibition of themselves for 50 years at the Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition.

Three students from Kinsale Community College have been awarded a first prize in Biology at the EU Young Scientist Competition in Prague.

Three West Cork schoolboy entrepreneurs who created a drink made from seaweed have landed a prize worth €20,000 to help kickstart their business.

THIS letter is written in response to a statement made by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

MY name is Joanne O’Riordan from Millstreet in Co Cork. I was born with a disability known as “total amelia”.

STUDENTS who can afford grinds and other supports will have an unfair advantage at the Leaving Certificate until changes are made to how school-leavers are assessed, college leaders have said.

REGARDLESS of what happens with the IMF and the European Union, Ireland will still have to drive forward and hard work from everyone is required.

The BT Young Scientist Competition kicks off this week.

A KERRY teenager could be on her way to fame and fortune as her invention to help babies and toddlers crawl safely could be launched in shops soon.

ENTRANTS for this year’s BT Young Scientist competition have just one week left to put the finishing touches to their projects as the event kicks off on January 6.