SciTech

Picture this: the perfect first date. It’s dreamlike: you can’t stop laughing at each other’s jokes, you are similar in the best of ways yet just different enough for there to be a spark, you’re blushing when you make eye …

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 …

And we’re off! 2024 is well underway and whether you’re clinging along ambitiously to your new year’s resolutions or like me, you’ve fallen back on old habits, it’s never too late to regroup, re-centre and restart with something new! And …

For me, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon represents more than just “music”; it is Burke’s subliminal incarnate – only in musical form. Undoubtedly borne out of the daring experimentalist leap produced by the Beatles in their Sgt. …

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 …

As I was hiking the resplendent path of Wicklow’s Great Sugar Loaf, I stumbled upon a small bog. Hazel, a Geography student and friend of mine, attempted to spark an interesting discussion as to their value and their utility. I, …

People in wintry Dublin flock to the many beaches along the coast on a daily basis for their cold plunge while university societies often plan sea-swimming events for members.

Plunging into the ice-cold water of the Irish sea at any …

In a world where adorning a futuristic headset can transport you to places wilder than your deepest fantasies, VR sounds nothing short of science fiction. 

From cinema to Metaverse, we’ve seen the emergence of virtual reality (VR) in a multifaceted …

It’s a familiar scene: you sit down outside the Arts Building after emerging, starving, from the afternoon’s lectures. Just as you are about to bite into your delicious lunch, a seagull swoops down and snatches it from your grasp. If …

In an oft-quoted passage of Pinker’s How the Mind Works, we are informed that:— 

‘[W]e enjoy strawberry cheesecake […] not because we evolved a taste for it. We evolved circuits that gave us trickles of enjoyment from the sweet …