DR Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer before a dramatic rescue from the South Pole, has died, her husband said yesterday.

The discovery of a fifth planet circling a star beyond our solar system marks “an exciting next step in the search for worlds like our own”, astronomers said today.

A computer simulation of the 2001 World Trade Centre attacks supports a federal agency’s findings that the initial impact from the hijacked aeroplanes stripped away crucial fireproofing material and that the weakened towers collapsed under their own weight.

It has been 2,000 years and possibly much longer since the Earth has run such a fever.

SIZE doesn't matter in the world of science and technology when it comes to competing globally as a nation, the director general of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), William Harris, believes.

RESEARCHERS probing mountains and ancient seas in Antarctica have discovered two previously unknown types of dinosaurs, according to America’s National Science Foundation.

Scientists in the United States, China and Russia will soon be able to collaborate in cyberspace over a new high-speed computer network that includes the first direct computer link across the Russia-China border.

A new Board of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) with Dr Pat Fottrell as its chairperson has been appointed by the Tánaiste Mary Harney.

INITIATIVES to expand trade and investment and create US-Irish partnerships between the United States, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland were announced at the US-Ireland summit in Washington DC yesterday.

Massive icebergs and an unprecedented amount of sea ice have nearly cut off one of Antarctica’s largest populations of Adelie penguins, jeopardising attempts by the birds to breed.

Scientists have discovered possible traces of the cosmic match that ignited the Big Bang and created the universe 14 billion years ago, according to reports today.

A rescue team left today for the South Pole, flying into the face of high winds and near-total darkness on a risky effort to evacuate an ailing American doctor working at the end of the world.