The idea that lying down while giving birth is a bad thing has been challenged by researchers.

Ripples in space-time generated by the cataclysmic collision of two black holes nearly two billion years ago have been captured by super-sensitive detectors in the US and Italy.

Three potentially habitable Earth-sized planets in another solar system are likely to contain substantial amounts of water, say astronomers.

USA: A Siamese cat has been named by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest living cat.

Thousands of cars, including high-priced models, have been susceptible to car hacking due to a vulnerability in their immobiliser which was discovered in 2012 — but not publicised due to court action taken by Volkswagen.

One year down, two to go and for an ambitious young Cork golfer.

Scientists herald a new frontier in physics

A radical shake-up of the way Britain votes is on the cards following yesterday’s knife-edge election result.

Scientists have successfully restarted the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful atom-smasher ever built, hoping to enter a new realm of physics.

A mechanism by which bacteria cells became resistant to antibiotics has been identified for the first time by scientists.

A miniature version of our solar system existed 11 billion years ago, and it had planets the size of Earth which could have held ancient life, according to scientists

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Losing a loved-one can have a devastating effect on the immune systems of older people, a study has shown.

Rugby faces the prospect of an NFL-style lawsuit due to the long-term impact of concussions, according to one of Britain’s leading experts in motor neuroscience.

A simple course of antibiotics could relieve chronic back pain for up to 40% of sufferers, scientists claim.

The ISPCC has urged parents to talk to their children about their online activity after research highlighted the vital role they play in protecting minors from sexual predators.

It has been a quiet hobby horse of mine for a while — at least quiet in the sense that I badgered anyone that would listen about it, but was never likely to attempt the legwork involved in researching the matter.

No need for grand give-up-everything schemes. Anna Magee asks the experts for the little strategic regular changes that can help you tackle the bulge.

Dr Tony Humphreys said parents were “never to blame” for autism and his intention was simply “to inform and enlighten” the public of research in the area.

ALL newborn babies should be routinely screened for life-threatening heart defects using a simple and painless test, researchers have said.

TWO British-based experts yesterday backed calls from social workers here for the HSE to alter a new planned “standardisation” model of dealing with certain child welfare cases.

Contaminated Egyptian fenugreek seeds are probably the source of Europe's deadly Ecoli outbreaks, health experts warned today, predicting there could be more infections from seeds still in the food chain.

FIFTEEN is the magic number for women undergoing fertility treatment, a study has found.

AS Donal Hickey reported on this page last week, a sea-eagle has been killed by a turbine blade in Kerry.

NEITHER Collins’ dictionary nor the Oxford Thesaurus will attest to it, yet the word ‘filicide’ has entered the English language to describe the murder of a child by a parent, a notion that is so disturbing it — literally — defies description.

A LOW daily dose of Prozac could end pre-menstrual misery for millions of women and their families, research suggests.

SCIENTISTS scouring the area around Stonehenge said yesterday they have uncovered the foundations of a second circular structure only a few hundred meters from the world-famous monument.

THE riddle why the likes of John Wayne and Clint Eastwood never lost a gunfight even when the other man drew first has finally been solved.

Simply rinsing the mouth with an energy drink could improve sports performance, research has suggested.

MARATHON talks on a new hospital consultants’ contract failed to reach full agreement on providing more part-time positions to encourage senior women doctors with young children to continue working.

THE Bloody Sunday atrocity in Derry in 1972 has spawned more songs, films and poems than any other atrocity of the Troubles, a new book claims.

Global warming experts are using the priceless works of British artist JMW Turner to try to track climate change over more than a century.

Evidence that foetuses can feel pain is scientifically unsound and may be putting women considering an abortion at risk, a senior psychologist said in Britain today.

VIOLENT images seen on television and in computer games can increase aggressive behaviour in young children, according to a new study.

The father of Iraq’s nuclear programme said his nation would have developed atomic weapons in the early 1990s had Saddam Hussein not ordered the invasion of Kuwait.

MOST childhood cancers are probably caused by exposure to pollutants while babies are in the womb, a researcher claimed yesterday.

A prehistoric lost world deep under the North Sea where man once hunted animals has been mapped by scientists with the help of earthquake data.

Trainee police officer Clare Southern was £97,000 (€140,000) richer today after winning TV sleep deprivation show Shattered.

TV sleep-deprivation show Shattered is being investigated by a media watchdog after sparking a number of complaints from viewers, it emerged today.

BAKERS, lumberjacks, dentists and waitresses are most likely to develop adult asthma, according to the first study to link professions to the respiratory disease.

A TEAM of scientists have invented a revolutionary type of petrol engine just a few millimetres wide which could soon replace conventional batteries, it emerged yesterday.