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Shroud of Turin, a length of linen cloth bearing the image of a man who is alleged to be Jesus of Nazareth, is still controversial, historian admits.more

Hundreds of people lined the streets of the English city of Cambridge on Saturday, breaking into applause as the hearse carrying the remains of famed British scientist Stephen Hawking arrived at the church.more

The ashes of Professor Stephen Hawking will be buried at Westminster Abbey. He will be laid to rest near the grave of Sir Isaac Newton during a thanksgiving service later this year, a spokesman for the abbey said.more

To promote gender equality in science, UNESCO and the L'Oréal Foundation have, for the past 20 years, shone a spotlight on the research endeavors and achievements of women scientists, raising their profile in the international scientific community.more

In the Russian military archive and in the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs there are the most valuable materials that will change the picture of history, not of Russia itself, but of all of Europe, in particular Eastern Europe - says historian prof. Andrzej Nowak. He added that they will be discovered when the next thaw in Russia comes.more

Over 750 Polish students from the best British universities took part in the seventh edition of the LSE Polish Economic Forum in London on Saturday. more

Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin are in the world's top 50 for nursing and other subjects but other universities have mixed fortunes in the latest discipline-specific rankings.more

A university spent more than £1,600 of public money on relocating a vice-chancellor's pet dog from Australia to Britain, an investigation into expense claims has revealed.more

A special guest at LEADERS Conference: Poland in a Global World organized by the Polish students' association at University College London was former Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki.more

Leading researchers co-author unique report warning of the malicious use of AI in the coming decade. "It is troubling, but necessary, to consider the implications of superhuman hacking, surveillance, persuasion, and physical target identification," says newly-published report.more

Scientists say they have settled one of medicine's biggest debates after a huge study found that anti-depressants work. The study, which analysed data from 522 trials involving 116,477 people, found 21 common anti-depressants were all more effective at reducing symptoms of acute depression than dummy pills.more

The study by a team at NUI Galway's school of natural sciences found 73% of the fish they analysed had microplastic fragments in their stomachs. The fact that the samples were from fish specimens collected from depths of 300 to 600 metres below the surface in the north-west Atlantic shows the effects are not restricted to organisms living nearer the surface.more

A rare celestial event will grace the skies during the coming week when a blue moon and lunar eclipse combine with the moon being at its closest point to Earth, resulting in what is being called a "super blue blood moon".more

One can not allow "suicide of science" - the chairman of the Pontifical Academy of Life, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, commented on cloning macaques in a laboratory in China. This is the first case of cloning monkeys.more

Speaking ahead of the annual anniversary, which occurs on the third Monday of January, Dr Cliff Arnall said he identified the date 13 years ago in a bid to encourage people, where possible, to take a positive outlook on the time of year as an opportunity for new beginnings and change.more

In the past year, numerous signals about unidentified flying objects came from all regions of Italy - the Mediterranean Ufological Center reported.more

Living in the fallout zone from a nuclear disaster would be no worse for our health than living in London, a shocking study from British safety researchers has found.more

This is the moment the night sky was lit up by a meteor falling over Finnish Lapland. more

Laureates of II edition of Extraordinary Pole in Ireland have been awarded during a special gala at the Polish Embassy in Dublin. more

Two major airlines have taken a startup under their wings in pursuit of cleaner air travel. Boeing and JetBlue were revealed to be backing Zunum Aero back in April, and now, the company has set a target release date for their small hybrid-electric airliner: 2022.more

INVENTOR ELON MUSK unveiled plans this morning to send cargo ships to Mars in five years and use rockets to carry people between Earth's major cities in under half-an-hour. The founder of SpaceX said a planned transport system, codenamed BFR (Big F**ing Rocket), would be downsized so it could carry out a range of tasks that would then pay for future Mars missions.more

Irish workers are the most overqualified in the European Union for the jobs they are working, according to latest research. About one in three workers are at least one educational level above the international norm for the jobs they are in.more

Extra farmland more than one and a half times the size of London will have to be cultivated to grow the food needed for the capital's booming population by 2031, according to new analysis. The figures reveal the huge resources that will be necessary to keep western Europe's biggest conurbation fed as it continues to expand rapidly over the coming decades.more

People are routinely ingesting plastic through drinking water from their kitchen taps both in Ireland and abroad, a global survey has found.more

Scientists from the Polish research station in Antarctica failed to obtain 90 million PLN from the ministry for the necessary construction of a new main building.more