The shadowy silhouette of the black hole in M87 is an astonishing scientific image, says Alister Graham.

Somewhere in the bowls of Government Buildings, this week or next, a committee made up of second-tier bureaucrats, maybe a theatre consultant too, will meet to update preparations for the events scheduled to mark this Republic’s looming foundation centenaries.

If you appeared on 'Are You Smarter Than A 10 Year Old?', you wouldn't want to go up against Charley Thomas.

Can Altior be beaten?

It is Christmas Eve and Santa and his team are getting ready to deliver gifts to children all around the world. If you are wondering just how he does it, you are not alone; here are some of the questions sent in by children with equally curious minds. The first question comes from four-year-old Harper.

We should have known, when GAA Congress decided not to define the melee, that this would become The Year of the Melee.

Being handed a diagnosis of lethal cancer together with the promise that it will radically shorten your life rarely provokes — in the person hearing the deadly prognosis — the desire to be funny.

Des O’Driscoll meets classical concert pianist Hugh Tinney

From The Simpsons to The Big Bang Theory, take a look some of the times Professor Hawking had an influence on pop culture.

Renowned British physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the world's finest scientific minds, has died at the age of 76, a family spokesman said.

The Government is set to ignore expert calls not to build a motorway between Cork and Limerick amid claims its multi-billion euro national framework plan is an electioneering attempt to “give something to everyone” and win over voters.

Not insulting the audiences for soap operas, but you’d be pretty safe to bet none of them do physics as a hobby.

IT may seem obvious to a child, but not to most adults: If the Big Bang was so violent why do scientists appear to spend time trying to see it rather than hear it?

Three scientists have been awarded the 2017 Nobel Physics Prize for their discoveries relating to gravitational waves, helping develop a theory first aired by Albert Einstein.

THERE is hardly an area of public life that vindicates Albert Einstein’s admonishment that “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting

EVEN if the figures released by the Irish Nurses’ and Midwives’ Organisation (INMO) recorded that the number of people on trolleys in hospitals last month was down 6% on the 2016 figure, the top-line figure, a record 57,674, is another expression of the dysfunction in our public life.

CAPTAIN Boyle, Sean O’Casey’s character in his play Juno and the Paycock, was fond of proclaiming: “The whole worl’s in a terrible state o’ chassis.”

It’d be like finding out that Mandela, Einstein, Marie Curie and the fella who invented the stirrup were in the same hurling team at Minor level

IF you’re expecting a rip-roaring ride through the wackily entertaining world of time travel films and TV shows, you could be in for a disappointment here. 

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

The British justice secretary, Michael Gove, has apologised for comparing economic experts warning about Brexit with the Nazis who smeared Albert Einstein in the 1930s.

For how much longer can Fine Gael, and Fianna Fáil keep on defying the basic laws of political science? The centre-right won this election.

Gravity waves — ripples in spacetime — have been detected by scientists a century after Albert Einstein predicted their existence.

For Back to the Future fans, October 21 is D-day. It’s the exact date in the future when Marty McFly and Doc Brown flew from the ’80s in a modified DeLorean. What, asks Mark Evans, makes the move as watchable today as when it was released?

HIS entertaining novels and distinctly non-standard biographies have long marked John Higgs out as an ambitious writer, but even by his standards, this is an audacious project.

With many economic indicators back above or approaching pre-crisis levels, it seems inappropriate to describe Ireland as still being in the recovery stage, writes Phillip O’ Sullivan

We still don’t understand the real thing, so we’re right to worry about the rise of AI, writes Bella Bathurst

The formation of a new centre-left party movement will challenge the policies of the Government parties; Representatives of the dairy industry are warning against an over-reaction to a suspected case of BSE in Co Louth; A second man has died following the industrial accident in Portmarnock in Dublin. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

When he wasn’t busy scribbling out the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein seems to have spent a fair amount of time writing letters involving topics such as God, his son’s geometry studies, even a little toy steam engine an uncle gave him when he was a boy.

Scientists herald a new frontier in physics