The ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology showcased the future of intelligent systems in Dublin’s Croke Park on Tuesday. The event was organised by the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and supported by ADAPT, which is led from Trinity College Dublin. …
innovation
Laughter in the Lab: the indisputable importance of humour in scientific discourse
Kevin Lyons discusses the vital role that humour plays in scientific research and explains the predominant lack of humour in peer-reviewed scientific publications.
If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
Science is a serious business. It requires serious people to write serious grant applications, to convince serious funding agencies to support serious research projects. Furthermore, the results of these projects are published …
Trinity immunologists make breakthrough relating to vaccine immune-responses
A new adjuvant, key components in vaccines, called chitosan could pave the way for the future of vaccinations
Trinity immunologists have recently published groundbreaking research in the scientific journal Immunity relating to adjuvants. Adjuvants are key components in vaccines, and play an important role in enhancing the human body’s immune response to vaccination. Simply put, they help vaccines …
InstaEssays: the innovative photojournalism of the future
Instagram, the largest photo-sharing platform in the world, can be used for so much more. Just ask anyone who writes InstaEssays, the latest investigation of human empathy in the marrying of pictures and words.
The Union of Students in Ireland unveils the ‘Tinder of Politics’
The USI hopes that Smartvote will help students to engage with politics and make a smart choice in the General Election
The Union of Students in Ireland have partnered with Smartvote, a website referred to as ‘the Tinder of politics.’ Smartvote went live today.
The website asks the voter a series of questions on policy areas which include housing, the …