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Wednesday 2 December 2020
The Irish professor of biochemistry has written a new book aimed at children, which is nominated for an An Post Irish Book Award.
A further €3,000 was spent on the disposal of the animal carcasses once the experiments had concluded.
Weird science.
An experiment that turns favourites of people you follow into retweets has annoyed many of its users.
As part of experiments carried out by NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, researchers will look at whether Martian air could be converted for astronauts to breathe.
The experiments, carried out by Facebook’s Data Science team, covered topics like the causes of loneliness, how social behaviours spread through networks, and ‘political mobilisation messages.’
We thought we knew but we were wrong. SO wrong.
The company is currently testing prototypes contact lenses that can measure glucose levels in tears.
The @magicstats account predicts which tweets will become popular by favouriting them.
The stuffed dog toured Germany for the past two years but is now back in Riga’s Museum of History of Medicine. Here’s its full story.
A ‘Chimp Haven’ has been constructed to house the chimps as only 50 to be left in studies and “invasive” research to be phased out.
“I was walking with my wife [and] when I saw the Swedish area code, I realised,” said one of this year’s winners.
The experiments took place in the 1940s and included people being injected with syphilis and other illnesses, by what were described as “unethical” researchers.
An Irish science blog has uncovered the many links between the final space shuttle mission and our fair isle.
THE SHOPS ARE back, festive music is playing and the weather is going to get absolutely Baltic this week. Even though it’s been a strange year, you’d know Christmas is on the way.
But although it’s a time for giving and the shops are open again, the usual scenes of charity fundraisers on the streets will likely be less frequent due to public health concerns.
Many people make a point of putting some money, food or other items away to make a donation to a particular cause around this time of year, and will likely have to go a bit out of their way to do so in 2020.
Are you one of those people? This morning we want to know: Will you be giving to charity this Christmas?
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