The seven-year development of Perseverance cost $2.7 billion, a price tag that makes many wince, says Kathriona Devereux

LEAH Nolan, a 14-year-old student at Loreto Secondary School, Fermoy, Co.

A Macroom secondary school pupil has been honoured for examining the psychological and social impact of face masks.

This week, STEM South West takes place virtually. EMMA CONNOLLY talks to Donal Og Cusack, who is taking part in the event, aimed at students with an interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, to look at a career in these industries

Cork’s finest young minds are tackling problems posed by Covid-19 at the BT Young Scientist awards, writes ELLIE O’BYRNE

ELLIE O’BYRNE reports on more of the fantastic projects at this year’s BT Young Scientist awards, which gets underway tomorrow.— including projects on plastic in teabags and another on synchronised swimming.

Science Week left us with plenty of food for thought, so says Kathriona Devereux in her weekly column

One of the country’s biggest science festivals is returning to Cork next month but this time in a virtual setting.

A University College Cork plant scientist has contributed to a report on the world’s plants and fungi that has discovered thousands of new edible plant species across the globe.

THIRTY-SIX new high-level science, engineering and operations positions with the Cork base of Thermo Fisher Scientific are to be filled in the next two months.

A scientist at University College Cork has warned that urgent action is needed to help to eradicate malaria.

SCOIL Mhuire Kanturk student Lisa Finn has achieved the second-highest national result in Leaving Certificate Technology Higher Level 2019 with a project focused on helping people who suffer from panic attacks.

SCOIL Mhuire Kanturk student Lisa Finn has achieved the second-highest national result in Leaving Certificate Technology Higher Level 2019 with a project focused on helping people who suffer from panic attacks.

THE winners of this year’s BT Young Scientist competition received a hero’s welcome when they returned to their school in Ballincollig today.

THE Cork winners of this year’s BT Young Scientist competition will receive a hero’s welcome when they return to their school in Ballincollig tomorrow morning.

CORK students have again scooped the overall prize at the BT Young Scientists competition.

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UCC scientists may have found the most accurate way to depict extinct animals such as dinosaurs, in what has been described as a “remarkable” discovery.

ONE of the world’s top young scientists was among those to collect his Leaving Cert results yesterday after an impressive result at the Google Science Fair. Fionn Ferreira returned to Schull Community College to pick up his exam results.

A NEW exhibition at University College Cork will explore the innate 24-hour cycles that form the timetable of our lives. The Glucksman has partnered with APC Microbiome Ireland SFI Research Centre at UCC for the exhibition ‘Circadian Rhythms’.

The Cork Institute of Technology Blackrock Castle Observatory will lead celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing later this month.

NEW technology developed by the Tyndall Institute is to be used by a Cork-based company which specialises in detecting radiation in outer space.

Cork company Merck, announced that students from St Aloysius’ College in Carrigtwohill won the company’s 2019 School Science Competition.

THE Government has launched the country’s first National Space Strategy. Innovation Minister John Halligan said the 2019-2025 strategy would ultimately benefit “our children’s children’s children”. Ireland pays €18.

A CORK woman, who is part of the team building Ireland’s first satellite, says she’s excited about the growing numbers of women becoming involved in the sciences.

Next month, thousands of secondary school girls will flood into Cork City Hall for the I WISH event. EMMA CONNOLLY talks to some of the keynote speakers about the message they will be sharing with the youths on future careers in STEM

Ahead of Cork Science Week, EMMA CONNOLLY talks to the organisers of the event about their love of the discipline, their chosen fields, and why they are encouraging more young women to explore a career in science