The Cork-born head of research at a United States university is to become president of University College Cork (UCC) next February.

Corkman and UCC physics graduate Professor Patrick O’Shea has been appointed the 15th President of University College Cork.

How Shackleton and his crew of Irish, English, and Scots worked together was a million miles away from the events taking place at the same time in Dublin 1916, writes Patrick G O’Shea of the University of Maryland

Irish hockey has waved goodbye to some of its brightest female prospects in recent weeks, as the trickle of talent heading to America turns into a flood.

A commemorative plaque was unveiled at the Imperial Hotel in Cork yesterday to mark a visit to the city 167 years ago by one of the most iconic figures in American history.

A 37-year-old man injured in a 1997 gun accident has been given a new face, teeth, tongue and jaw in what doctors say is the most extensive face transplant ever performed.

Sitting toddlers in front of a television or computer screen is unhelpful and may even obstruct their progress, according to a group of leading psychologists.

Mobile phone apps have created a massive market opportunity and with comparatively low establishment costs, many start-ups are entering the industry, writes Brian O'Grady

Japan’s central bank pumped billions more into the financial system today to quell fears that the country’s banks could be overwhelmed by the impact of the earthquake and tsunami.

TEENS are becoming so addicted to texting and surfing the net that they behave like recovering drug addicts when forced to switch their gadgets off, research has found.

ASTRONOMERS are preparing for an up-close and personal look at a comet this week.

SOME of the world’s top scientists are due in Ireland next week to discuss a new threat to our oceans and marine life – noise pollution.

The Vatican is to fund new research into the potential use of adult stem cells in treating diseases.

POLICE authorities in the Maryland town of Prince George have suspended a sergeant who was at the scene of a beating last month of an unarmed University of Maryland student that occurred after crowds took to the streets to celebrate a basketball win.

DAVID MILLS, an Emmy Award-winning television writer who contributed to dramas The Wire and ER, has died at age 48 after apparently suffering a brain aneurysm, HBO said.

The son of white supremacist gunman James von Brunn has called his father a coward and said he wished he had died in the US Holocaust Museum rampage instead of his security guard victim.

THE number of Americans who would condone torture, at least when used on terrorists in order to save lives, has risen over the past two years and now stands at over 40%, according to a new opinion poll.

A US government spy agency is funding research into the “mass harvesting” of information that people post about themselves on websites like MySpace, it has been claimed.

THE origin of what historian Arthur Schlesinger called the Imperial Presidency now expanding the American empire under George W Bush can be traced back to the 1960s and Vietnam, but might never have emerged if JFK had survived Dallas.

THE US must decide whether the Iraqi people would benefit from any move to topple Saddam Hussein, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said yesterday.

The US must decide whether the Iraqi people would benefit from any move to topple Saddam Hussein, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said today.