Have you ever watched a video of a world leader spitting incredible bars and thought, ‘wow, there’s no way this is real’? Well, in the majority of cases, you would be correct. World leaders seldom spit incredible bars, and what …
Sadbh Boylan is the Deputy Scitech Editor for Trinity News and is currently in her Senior Sophister Year studying Management Science and Information System Studies
Plastic Free Cycles
The Trinity team tackling microplastics in period products
Blame it on our upbringing, media exposure, or the stigma hanging over open menstruation discourse, but people who menstruate often don’t think twice about the products they use. You buy one box of Tampax and you’re committed for life. Single-use …
A year in Trinity research
A look back at College’s biggest scientific developments in 2023
As the semester draws to a close, so too does a remarkable year in College research. From quantum revelations to botanical discoveries, healthcare innovations to cosmic exploration, this year saw no shortage of scientific findings across Trinity science departments. Here …
Student digital (de)vices
Investigating what has and hasn’t changed about our social media habits in the last decade
If you take a peek at the Trinity News archives all the way back in the days of November 2013, you might stumble across a feature piece entitled, ‘Is Facebook a false reality?’ Authored by then-staff writer Alice Kinsella, the …
Decoding the EU AI Act: A student-friendly guide to the world’s first comprehensive artificial intelligence regulation
The European Union’s latest framework may prove the greatest regulatory challenge for the technology sector since GDPR
From parody deepfakes to TikTok-trending AI-generated art, biometric surveillance for law enforcement to screenplays authored by large language models, the past year has seen artificial intelligence (AI) become increasingly ubiquitous in our lives. While there has been a welcome increase …
‘Knock-On’ Effects: New research examines the long-term impact of concussion in rugby players
Tackling concussion continues to be a major priority for rugby union as evidence emerges of the lifelong repercussions of the sport’s most common injury
With sunsets creeping in earlier and temperatures beginning to dip, the harbingers of the rugby season are well and truly upon us. A fresh bout of rugby fever is on the horizon as we enter the autumn months, and this …
Flipping the Script: Meet the student start-up breaking down bureaucratic language barriers
Student founders Diana Hrisovescu and Shay McDonnell sit down with Trinity News to discuss their journey with tech start-up Script
The journey of Script from secondary school project to tech start-up poised for public launch has been a long and somewhat unexpected one. “I never even imagined I’d be doing what I’m doing today,” Diana Hrisovescu, co-founder and CEO, admits …
Schrodinger’s controversy: a room with and without a name
A look at the past, present, and future of the Fitzgerald building’s most famous theatre
This article contains discussion of sexual abuse, including of children.
Even for the most casual physicists, the name Schrödinger likely rings a faint bell of recognition. Austrian-born Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961) is revered as a pioneer of quantum mechanics; best known …