Yesterday thousands of Leaving Cert students got their results. Here are some of the stories that filtered through to us.

CONGRATULATIONS, you’re going to college.

The weather may be glorious now, but watch out for those volcanoes.

As students across Britain received their A-Level results, the Institute of Physics in Ireland warmly welcomes the highly significant rise in the numbers taking physics.

With world attention focused on CERN and the detection of the Higgs boson, the contribution of Ireland’s Nobel physicist Ernest Walton, who was born in Waterford, should be noted.

The Institute of Physics is proposing that the new Liffey bridge should be named for Ireland’s only science Nobel Laureate, Ernest Walton (1903-1995).

Scientists are a step closer to finding a cure for MRSA, experts said today.

IN parallel with the debate about project maths is the question of whether bonus points should be given for maths.

Scientists today reminded world leaders of the important role physics can play in understanding and fighting climate change.

The economy of Belfast has grown fastest among the 30 largest cities in the UK over the past decade, it was revealed today.

A YOUNG woman who scored the highest mark in this year’s Leaving Cert physics exam urged students yesterday to embrace science.

SUMMER temperatures soaring to close to Mediterranean levels in the Midlands, a drop in rainfall by up to 40% in parts of the country and the colder north experiencing similar weather to the present day sunnier south - radical climate change like that will happen in the lifetime of people living today, climate experts say.

IT has the angular appearance of a stealth bomber — and in its own way represents the state of art in aeronautical engineering.