Independent UCD News
With recent news reports suggesting that the implementation of a ‘vaccine passport’ scheme is underway, questions have arisen surrounding the issue of an effectively mandatory vaccine. With a ‘vaccine passport’…
The COVID-19 pandemic, or rather a version of it, has been sitting in the human race’s rear-view mirror for quite some time, approaching and accelerating. Both epidemiologists and climate change…
Over the previous two months many different vaccines have been placed on the market, with the EU gobbling up hundreds of millions of vials from multiple different companies such as…
With an aim to effectuate a fully sustainable economy, the EU Green Deal was announced in December 2019 at the 25th Climate Summit in Madrid by the European Commission. The…
UCD opened Ireland’s first dedicated centre for space-related research, innovation, and education last month. C-Space brings together academics and researchers across the University who work on different aspects of Space…
With the recent announcement that the Irish government has signed on to receive four separate COVID-19 vaccinations, which are expected to be rolled-out in early January after they are approved…
Dr. Teresa Lambe, an Irish scientist working on the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, saw massive success this past weekend. Lambe “practically broke down” with happiness upon hearing the news that the…
At long last, it seems as if 2020 has shone a ray of sunlight as it reaches its horizon. With the good news in recent weeks provided from the likes…
As a country, Ireland seems to contribute little to the carbon emissions and pollution of the earth’s atmosphere compared to other nations. However, when you narrow this down to how…
Information regarding COVID-19 is plastered across social media, news outlets, television, and the radio, giving people a real fatigue in terms of reading about the pandemic. Conversations these days all…
The recent COVID-19 outbreak has sent the world—snowballing— into the worst economic crisis since World War II. As we stand to embrace the new normal with confinement measures, border closures…
An enzyme ‘cocktail’ has been discovered that could contribute to the breaking down and reuse of plastics in the future. This could have a significant positive impact on tackling one…