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This week, Milo Yiannopoulos resigned from Breitbart, Minister for Health Simon Harris was a vampire, Robbie Williams was at the Brits, and we discovered some new planets. A goalkeeper was also forced to resign when he ate a pie at a…

One million of us dear humans are going to Mars. How? Elon Musk’s very large rocket. No seriously, Musk is building a rocket bigger than a football field to fly to Mars. This isn’t the first outrageous task Musk has set his enormous brain…

MOONSHOT- An Evening with NASA Astronaut Al Worden July 16th at 8.30pm  Now here’s a treat for those of you in the Limerick vicinity. Saturday July 16th, Lough Gur Science Group will host an exclusive evening event with NASA Apollo 15…

What’s a completely modern, contemporary, theme in history? Try to think of a suitable answer: Politics? No. The Greeks. Technology? Well, some say that papyrus was a technology. Gender? Joan of Arc and Elizabeth 1 set those contemporary…

For those of us with an interest in all things Space, we had been waiting for December for quite some time. You might assume that I’m referring to the Star Wars premiere (which was great and a big moment for me too), but I’m actually…

Last Wednesday, November 11th I flew to the European Space Agency's Research & Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, to attend their TEDxESA event, which was themed on Science Beyond Fiction, an investigation into the…

Mars One bad boy Joseph Roche joins us on The HeadStuff Podcast to run his mouth about all things sciencey in typical bad boy fashion. We talk about Irish Nobel Prizes, Mars, the Carl Sagan/Brian Cox Effect, Barack Obama, science education…

Jack Parsons was born on October 2nd, 1914 in Los Angeles under the improbable name of Marvel Whiteside Parsons. Even as an infant, his parents named him Jack. This may have been to avoid confusion with his father, also called Marvel, but…

The announcement this week of finding running water on the Martian surface was big news, your Facebook and Twitter feeds were filled with the revelation and people rushed to find the closet Airbnb next to the picturesque rivers of the Red…

Hi all, And greetings for the last time from sunny Athens, Ohio. This is my last blogpost from here as we have arrived at our final week on the Space Studies Programme.  This time next week I shall be in Edinburgh at Summerhall Theatre…