Ireland's historic 2013 Women's Six Nations Grand Slam victory is the latest of our RTÉ Sport Classics which you can watch on RTÉ2 and the RTÉ Player at 9.30pm tonight. Niamh Briggs, who played a key role in that triumph relives the glory day before she watches it back for the first time.

To predict how diet shapes a person’s gut microbiome, researchers came up with a new way to categorize foods.

Urban infants who spend their first year of life around microbes like those found on farms are less likely to develop asthma.

The famous desert geoglyphs appear to show birds that occur in Peru’s forests and coastal areas.

A bacterial “probiotic” may enhance athletic performance. But it’s a long way from being ready for use in humans.

In the late 1970s, a harbor seal named Hoover began catcalling passersby at the New England Aquarium in a thick Maine accent. A new study confirms seals’ uncanny ability to copy human speech.

In Côte d’Ivoire, employees at Fairtrade-certified cocoa cooperatives have higher salaries and better working conditions than those at non-certified organizations. Farm laborers, on the other hand, don’t fare as well.

Freezing soap bubbles look like snow globes. This whimsical effect could help us improve biological freezing techniques—and is incredibly fun to watch.

How “change blindness” prevents you from seeing this 10 of clubs turn into an ace of spades.

A swine virus that appeared in the U.S. in 2013 has proven hard to track. But an algorithm might help researchers predict the next outbreak.

A chicken-sized raptor relative adds credence to the idea that flight evolved multiple times among ground-faring dinosaurs.

The breakthrough suggests that bots can navigate complex games involving multiple stakeholders and hidden information—situations that better approximate the real world than two-player board games.

There are a heck of a lot of reasons not to.

Killing red tide cells en masse can unleash their potent toxin. That means researchers need to get creative.

Under extreme conditions, a human can produce more than three gallons of sweat in a single day.

Researchers have built a prosthesis that enabled a man who lost his hand to text, pluck grapes from their stems, and stuff a pillow into its case.

Physicists built a machine that might help explain how solar wind forms—all without leaving Earth’s atmosphere.

An AI chip designed to mimic certain aspects of the human brain has given a bicycle an unprecedented level of autonomy.

Researchers are using fluid dynamics to try to improve the study of crime scene blood spatter.

Both treatments rely on infusing patients with antibodies that latch onto the virus and block it from invading cells.

Scientists studying diamonds from deep within Earth’s mantle found evidence of a reservoir of rocks and gas that may be nearly as old as the planet itself.

For Anelosimus studiosus spiders, the storm survival checklist apparently includes a combative personality.

Experiments in Chile’s Atacama Desert point to a potential method of transportation for microbes on Mars—whether they exist there already, or we introduce them.

The feces contain the oldest example of parasite DNA ever recorded.

Artifacts unearthed in Idaho challenge the idea that the first people to populate the Americas made the journey on foot around the end of the Ice Age.

The technology is still in its infancy, but could someday aid the development of faster, more energy-efficient electronics.

Some of the storm’s features hint at troubling trends in recent hurricanes.

That earns this fish, Electrophorus voltai, the title of the strongest known living source of electricity.

Two men born without arms showcase the brain’s extraordinary flexibility.

Delays during migration can imperil birds’ chances of a successful breeding season.

In the largest Arctic expedition yet, researchers will gather as much data as they can on the fading ice—and climate change.

That spells trouble for the entire planet.

Gut microbes react differently to raw and cooked versions of the same foods.

Light from nearby galaxies illuminated the web’s ‘threads,’ making them directly visible to telescopes on Earth.

Even forests that look green from space can show symptoms of impending decline.

New data from NASA’s Curiosity rover suggests that water vacated Mars in fits and starts.

A new refrigeration technique harnesses the ability of rubber and other materials to cool down when released from a tight twist.

Mathematical modeling and AI can pick out patterns preceding epidemics that human brains can’t readily discern.

The algorithm was based on the faulty assumption that health care spending is a good proxy for wellbeing. But there seems to be a quick fix.

But many questions remain about the true origin of the Homo sapiens species.

Scientists are using artificial cervices and 3D models of the uterus to better understand pregnancy and childbirth.

A glimpse into the lives of the MOSAiC mission’s polar bear guards—and the powerful predators they watch for.

In 2018 and 2019, data from NASA’s Juno mission revealed new discoveries about Jupiter’s bizarre magnetic field.

Thwaites Glacier is melting fast. But to understand how climate change is driving its decline, scientists need to send instruments through 2,000 feet of ice into the water below.

Five episodes exploring the fascinating science and innovations in health and medicine.

With the world in the throes of a global pandemic, bicycle retailers have come up with solutions to continue business and keep riders on their bikes as best they can.
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The film will premiere on the 12th of May.
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Another hit of blurry goodness.
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Courts place Mavic into receivership as they try to work out who actually owns the French wheel brand.
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We sat down with the founder and owner of Nicolai Bikes to talk about the past, present, and future.
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