EIRSAT-1 – Takeoff for Ireland’s First Satellite
EIRSAT-1 – Just over 66 years after the first satellite, the Sputnik-1, was launched into space by the now-defunct Soviet Union, Ireland has joined the ranks of the world’s nations…
UCD and Met Eireann: Charting a New Course in Weather Forecasting with AI
A collaboration has been established between the national weather forecasting platform Met Eireann and the University College Dublin (UCD) School of Mathematics and Statistics, alongside the college’s Earth Institute, to…
The Nobel Prize Award Winners: Class of 2023
Earlier this month, the Nobel Prize laureates of 2023 were announced. Since the awards first began in 1901, Nobel Prize awards have been awarded to those who, in the words…
UCD Developing College-Wide AI Policy
UCD is developing a university-level policy to deal with the advancement and rising presence of AI. This is yet to have been published and individual schools within UCD are developing…
Is Tiktok For You? Now You Can Decide
TikTok, the social media platform with over 1.1 billion global users, is changing, or at least for Europeans. Earlier this month, TikTok announced that it would soon be giving users…
Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2022: Join the Fight
Whether you or a loved one are worried about developing breast cancer, have just been diagnosed, are going through breast cancer treatment, or are trying to stay well after treatment;…
Webb’s First Images Capitvate the World in NASA Publication
News of the James Webb Telescope’s monumental discovery erupted through headlines on Monday as NASA announced its magnificent progress while on its mission of deep space exploration. On Tuesday the…
UCD Professor William Gallagher Wins SFI Award
The Science Foundation of Ireland (SFI) announced its 2021 award winners at the annual SFI Science Summit last month. This year, Professor William Gallagher from the UCD School of Biomolecular…
UCD-based ISSDA to Contribute to European Research Group
The Irish Research Council announced that Ireland would join CESSDA, the European consortium for promoting the results of social science research. The Irish Social Science Data Archive (ISSDA), which is…
Hair: A Grey Area??
It will not come as news that as we age, we become prone to grey hair. A number of factors influence this process, including and not limited to age, ethnicity,…
EIRSAT-1: Ireland’s Take on the 1969 Lunar Landing
The fine fellows over in the Labs of our very own UCD have been on that non-stop grind to develop a Satellite with not one, not two, but three experiments…
Why are wealthy countries hoarding all the vaccines?
As of the 21st of April, Ireland has vaccinated nearly 905,000 people or 23.4% of the population with at least their first dose. Some countries are performing much better –…