Property values have moved on since Dutchman Peter Minuit bought Manhattan Island from unnamed Native Americans for 60 guilders in 1626.

A war veteran who lost his genitals in a blast in Afghanistan has received the world's most extensive penis transplant, and doctors say he is recovering well and expected to leave hospital this week.

A newly developed single blood test has the potential to change the way doctors screen for cancer, researchers have said.

Almost €50,000 was paid in expenses to four directors of the country’s science funding agency to attend board and committee meetings last year.

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SINCE receiving his PhD from St John’s College, Cambridge, in 1961, David Harvey has had virtually unchallenged standing as the most insightful and innovative voice on modern Geography and social theory, and is generally considered the world’s foremost authority on the works of Karl Marx.

Drinking a lot of coffee every day could potentially cut the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), research suggests.

We actually helped!

Last August, social media was flooded (literally) with videos of people soaking themselves with buckets of ice water in a bid to raise awareness and money of motor neurone disease (also known as ALS).

New Horizons, the fastest spacecraft ever flown, made history yesterday as it shot past Pluto at more than 48,280kph, taking pictures and collecting scientific data.

Sales of maternity trousers that allow Muslim women in Malaysia to cover up while giving birth have surged, despite triggering fierce criticism and fears of putting the lives of women at risk during childbirth.

A round up of the headlines today: The father of an autistic boy has been left heartbroken after the attack on his son, the latest on the Dunnes Stores strike and Rory McIlroy is being tipped to revel in the spotlight at the Masters.

More than 750 plaintiffs are suing Johns Hopkins University over its role in a series of medical experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s and 1950s during which subjects were deliberately infected with syphilis, gonorrhoea and other infections as part of study into sexually transmitted diseases (STD) without their consent.

E-cigarettes generate toxic chemicals similar to those found in tobacco and may harm the lungs and immune system, new research shows.

Most cases of cancer are the result of sheer bad luck rather than unhealthy lifestyles, diet or even inherited genes, new research suggests.

USA: A man faked a heart attack inside a Wal-Mart store in Florida so his friend could steal toys.

Talking therapy can prevent people bent on suicide from stepping over the brink, a study has found.

Ireland’s hope that a trade agreement with the US will open up a lucrative public procurement market in exchange for some concessions on beef may be difficult to achieve, a US expert has warned.

A baby treated for HIV within hours of birth is free of the virus nearly a year later, in the second case that has raised hopes about early treatment, doctors said.

A double espresso shot after swotting for an exam might help to jog those elusive memories, research suggests.

A double espresso shot after swotting for an exam might help to jog those elusive memories, new research suggests.

Doctors and nurses tasked with monitoring the health of terror suspects were complicit in abuses committed at prisons run by the Pentagon and the CIA, an independent report said.

Jack Andraka has in a short space of time gone from being a typical teenager unaware of the pancreas to one with a cheap way to detect cancer in the organ before it turns deadly.

Ask any cut-and-thrust surgeon about a hard day’s work and he or she is likely to say something like: “It was bedlam today.

The possible return of Silvio Berlusconi to the political stage spooked rival politicians and investors, but it would be foolish to write the wily fox off yet, says Barry Moody

Pluto may have been kicked out of the planet club, but it has gained yet another companion.

That Used To Be Us

Smoking is 25% more likely to give women heart disease than men, a study has found.

SMOKING is 25% more likely to give women heart disease than men, a study has found.

A HUSBAND accused of strangling his wife claims too much caffeine from canned drinks and diet pills caused him to lose control.

A man who became distraught as he was being briefed on his mother’s condition by a surgeon at Baltimore Hospital pulled a gun and shot and wounded the doctor, then killed his mother and himself in her room.

AN American biologist has stepped into the shoes of Baron Frankenstein by breathing life into a bacterium using genes assembled in the laboratory.

Patricia Zengerle reports from Washington on the President’s one-week break away from two wars, global recession and domestic politics.

A vaccine aimed at preventing cervical cancer in women has for the first time proven successful at preventing a sexually-transmitted disease in men, according to a new study.

A US government agency has dropped plans for a study of a controversial treatment for autism that critics had called an unethical experiment on children.

The number of Americans infected by the Aids virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, US health officials reported today, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic.

US physicist John Archibald Wheeler, who had a key role in the development of the atom bomb and later gave the space phenomenon black holes their name, has died at 96.

A lobby group of the country’s leading employers has urged a ‘yes’ vote for the Lisbon Reform Treaty to secure huge investment from US companies for Ireland.

A REJECTION of the EU Reform Treaty could scare US boardrooms that have put €52 billion worth of investment into Ireland, employers have said.