How plants survive mass extinction events
We often read about Earth’s mass extinction events and how they wiped out vast numbers of animal species, leaving survivors…
Science
Idea | Advocating for more science in public places
What do we see when we look around a public place? On those rare occasions when we can carelessly observe…
Investigation | Could the Antarctic ice sheet really collapse?
Antarctica is on the move. Enough ice to rise global sea level by almost sixty meters – nearly two hundred…
Investigation | Are we looking for missing flight MH370 in the right place?
The search for missing flight MH370 has so far been focused on a 120,000 square kilometre region south west of…
In-depth | Artificial Intelligence: the creative processor?
If AI machines can only learn from what has come before, how can they instigate a paradigm shift in creative…
Insight | What the ancient carbon dioxide record might mean for future climate change
A team co-led by UCD’s Prof. Jennifer McElwain have shown how deep-time reconstruction demonstrates that tropical forests can deeply…
Concept | Turning the world’s deserts green
The extent to which deforestation is harming global communities is a matter for serious international concern, and immediate positive action….
Scifi | Noise some, Words some
Intercepted email correspondence, September 8th, 2016: “So I ran an open source speech recognition system on the ambient office…
Ernest Walton | The Irish nobel laureate who split the atom
In July 2012, a little over 60 years after the first successful atom smashing, CERN – the European Organization for…
Idea | How people with sports addiction are like drug addicts
Participation in sports is a highly visible aspect of 21st-century life, with a normative dimension. Sport benefits health, encourages self-discipline,…