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Tech | New Adventures in WiFi – A Guinness Record Attempt

Environment | Campaign for Cleaner Oceans

Investigation | Could the Antarctic ice sheet really collapse?

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Tech | New Adventures in WiFi – A Guinness Record Attempt

Conor Purcell/July 2, 2018December 9, 2018

On Wednesday June 6th a team of Irish engineers set a new record for a maritime broadband transmission, aiming to…

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Study | How certain plants survive mass extinction events

Conor Purcell/October 12, 2017February 2, 2018

We often read about Earth’s mass extinction events and how they wiped out vast numbers of animal species, leaving survivors…

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Idea | Advocating for more science in public places

Rory Deegan/May 22, 2017February 2, 2018

What do we see when we look around a public place? On those rare occasions when we can carelessly observe…

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Investigation | Could the Antarctic ice sheet really collapse?

Johannes Sutter/March 28, 2017March 16, 2018

Antarctica is on the move. Enough ice to rise global sea level by almost sixty meters – nearly two hundred…

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Investigation | Are we looking for missing flight MH370 in the right place?

Jonathan Durgadoo/November 20, 2016March 16, 2018

The search for missing flight MH370 has so far been focused on a 120,000 square kilometre region south west of…

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In-depth | Artificial Intelligence: the creative processor?

Gerard Lynch/November 1, 2016March 8, 2018

If AI machines can only learn from what has come before, how can they instigate a paradigm shift in creative…

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Insight | What the ancient carbon dioxide record might mean for future climate change

Wide Orbits/October 31, 2016February 2, 2018

  A team co-led by UCD’s Prof. Jennifer McElwain have shown how deep-time reconstruction demonstrates that tropical forests can deeply…

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Concept | Turning the world’s deserts green

Vesela Tanaskovic/October 18, 2016March 16, 2018

The extent to which deforestation is harming global communities is a matter for serious international concern, and immediate positive action….

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Scifi | Noise some, Words some

Gerard Lynch/October 10, 2016February 2, 2018

  Intercepted email correspondence, September 8th, 2016: “So I ran an open source speech recognition system on the ambient office…

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Ernest Walton | The Irish nobel laureate who split the atom

Alan Hally/October 5, 2016February 2, 2018

In July 2012, a little over 60 years after the first successful atom smashing, CERN – the European Organization for…

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Idea | How people with sports addiction are like drug addicts

Karin Jongsma/October 4, 2016March 15, 2018

Participation in sports is a highly visible aspect of 21st-century life, with a normative dimension. Sport benefits health, encourages self-discipline,…

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