Science

The Crypto Winter has certainly changed the landscape for blockchain development. With the emphasis less on price and more on development, serious projects have gathered momentum and a head of steam. Ideas – which of course are great – are…

Malo Girod de l’Ain came to art in a roundabout way. A Parisian through and through, his aunt, Hélène Girod de l’Ain, was a famous artist and his parents’ home still hosts a number of delightful paintings. He enjoyed art as a hobby but…

The most basic definition of data science is that it involves the collection, storage, organisation and analysis of massive amounts of data. Yet without a deeper understanding, one might think a data scientist sits in a dark room, huddled…

Big Ideas 2019 includes a fairytale-inspired innovation to save the lives of firefighters, The Quickstitch for rapid wound closure and energy efficient wastewater recycling Twelve investor-ready start-ups will pitch their new technology…

There are some 2.3 billion video gamers in the world today who play video games for hours at a time every week. They can be very involved with multiplayer games. They tend to have their own avatar which can be personalised to different…

There's a lot to say about how artificial intelligence will disrupt healthcare as we know it. Here's a crash course in what AI and machine learning mean for healthcare today and what the future could look like for these technologies.…

Processed food has been with civilisation for centuries, the dominant belief that kitchen equals good and factory is bad needs to be challenged, and misunderstandings about food processing is leading to massive food waste, asserts a new…

Move over the Winklevoss twins, here in Ireland we have the Happy Pear Twins and they came to the conclusion that blockchain is indeed a vegan. So how did we reach a conclusion of such epic proportions? Well – we were very scientific in…

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered how Hepatitis C virus (HCV) “ghosts” our immune system and remains undiagnosed in many people. The highly infectious and sometimes deadly Hepatitis C is transmitted via infected blood…

Sister relationships are understudied in psychology, despite the self-evident importance of such relationships. Siblings have unique relationships. They are like a combination between a parent-child relationship and a close friendship.…