Projects entered in the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition have reached a level of sophistication that co-founder and judge Dr Tony Scott could not have imagined more than 50 years ago.

Just in case the regular schedules don't float your boat.

After originally announcing new record i,i for the end of the month, Bon Iver took the music world by surprise with the digital release of the new album.

'So many houses in Ireland hadn’t water or sewerage and you were watching man do something you could hardly imagine'

Forget about building your child’s self-esteem, “it’s for the birds”, says Dr Harry Barry.

More importantly, we hear that there is a pair of tickets to next week’s Late Late Toy Show up for grabs in this week’s viewer prize!

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Professor Stephen Hawking has celebrated his 75th birthday at a specially organised series of public lectures about gravity and black holes.

The Earth is at serious risk of an asteroid strike, according to a leading Irish astrophysicist.

Here are the top three films you don’t want to miss this week, writes Declan Burke.

Denise McCormack, Aidan O’Mahony and Aoibhín Garrihy have made it through to the final of Dancing With The Stars. Tune into RTÉ One at 6.30pm on Sunday to find out who wins the trophy.

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Peacekeepers — The Irish in South Lebanon is on RTÉ One at 9.35pm on Tuesday.

Esther Rantzen is paired with John on the first episode of Celebrity First Dates, on Channel 4 at 9pm on Friday.

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and Aoibhinn McGinnity feature in Trial of the Century, on TV3 at 9.15pm tonight.

One of Britain’s top scientists has supported the condemnation of Tim Hunt, who quit his job in the wake of controversial comments he made about women working in laboratories.

Outspoken academic Professor Richard Dawkins has claimed Tim Hunt was the victim of “a feeding frenzy of mob-rule self-righteousness” when he quit his job in the wake of controversial comments he made about women working in laboratories.

The scientist and broadcaster Professor Brian Cox has said it was wrong the way a Nobel laureate scientist was “hounded out” of his university posting over controversial comments he made about women working in laboratories.

A sixth Irish person has died after a balcony collapsed on an apartment building in Berkeley, California. Read the latest on this and more in this evening’s irishexaminer.com catch-up.

 

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Tom Hughes’s character uses his allure to wring secrets from women in a major new Cold War thriller, says Susan Griffin

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Professor Stephen Hawking has lent his voice to the scientific brilliance of ... Monty Python?

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The pitch for Pixels is pretty dang weird - when aliens take early 80s video games as a declaration of war, some old guys who used to be arcade titans get called in to fight back.

Cork-based couple Nora and Katriona go for a casino-themed event on Don’t Tell The Bride, on RTÉ2 on Thursday.

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Leading astronomers and scientists, including evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and physicist Brian Cox, have called for more to be done to prevent a devastating asteroid strike.

Feast your eyes of this cornucopia of televisual wonder.

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The remaining members of Monty Python are to reunite on stage tonight for the first time in decades.

Scientist Stephen Hawking is teaming up with Monty Python for their reunion shows.

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BBC1 @ 10.20pm: Graham Norton continues his award-winning talk show, with guests Ricky Gervais, Ronnie Corbett and Juliette Binoche, plus music and chat from Irish pop star Imelda May.