Dick Ahlstrom
Irish Times
Ireland
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Past articles by Dick:
Prof Denis O’Sullivan: the Irishman who shone light on cosmic rays
The physicist, who died in February, worked with Nasa to protect astronauts from radiation → Read More
Building toys teach innovation, a lesson missing from screen games
Humble train sets offer a better challenge to children than ‘passive’ smartphone play → Read More
Irish SME flush with success after waste water research
OxyMem wins innovation award for project that took nearly 15 years to come to market → Read More
Research remains key to Irish tech entrepreneur pipeline
State and private supports can help start-ups but good business ideas come from research → Read More
Hamilton Lecture: Random mountains and random distances, by Prof Wendelin Werner
‘It is about asking simple natural questions, and the answers are not always those that our intuition would guess’ → Read More
Ireland sixth in European league of new business owners, survey shows
Start-up rate similar to that in the US and is high compared to European countries → Read More
Creative advantage of youth an age-old question in science
Forties become the new 20s for physicists as Nobel-winning work takes longer to achieve → Read More
Baldness trumps malaria? Funding shows something out of kilter
Our shared global responsibilities to one another are not reflected in the numbers → Read More
Learning the truth through science
President Trump’s comments on climate change are a stark reminder why we all need to understand science at some level → Read More
Poolbeg plumes are nothing to get steamed up about
Incinerator blowing harmless steam to clean pipes, and not burning waste, says Covanta → Read More
Is humble yeast the next new wonder product?
Irish researchers at UCC seek to push yeast engineering to a whole new level → Read More
Supercomputers may boost life expectancy by 10 years
Major gains are expected from the emergence of personalised medicine, care specifically tailored to match your genetic make-up → Read More
Supermassive: Irish scientist offers explanation for black holes
Astrophysicist John Regan publishes revolutionary findings in ‘Nature Astronomy’ → Read More
Breast Cancer: Graphic visualisation of tweets wins award
Wellcome Image Awards: Irish academic team used 92,915 tweets with ‘#breastcancer’ → Read More
Neanderthal dining preferences discovered by scientists
Ancient Spanish and Belgian dental plaque shows meat-eater and vegetarian habits → Read More
Fossil discovery may give new start date to life on Earth
Researchers must now prove that the fossils, found in Canada, are biological in origin → Read More
Ireland’s bees face disaster following mild winter
The insects have started early due to the weather, but a cold snap could wipe out hives → Read More
Secret weapon used to watch immune cells wage war on infection
Scientists at Maynooth help develop means of tracking work of immune system’s T-cells → Read More
Caring computers set to respond to human emotions in dementia project
Irish-led SenseCare research, funded by the EU, will make use of ‘affective computing’ → Read More
An Irish breakthrough in the big data storage problem
The world’s data pool is growing at an astonishing rate, and a team based at Trinity has made a discovery about how to store it more efficiently → Read More