Before a drug or medical device is approved for use in humans, it must undergo a clinical trial. Clinical trials ultimately aim to answer two simple questions: is the drug or device safe? And does it do what it’s supposed to do? The downside to clinical trials is that theyContinue Reading
Kevin Gill/Flickr, CC BY-SA The ocean floor is famously less explored than the surface of Mars. And when our team of scientists recently mapped the seabed, and ancient sediments beneath, we discovered what looks like an asteroid impact crater. Intriguingly, the crater, named “Nadir” after the nearby volcano Nadir Seamount,Continue Reading
YOU needed a map to get round Jaap — but there is no art to getting above Mart. Manchester United have a major weak link in new buy Lisandro Martinez. 2 Lisandro Martinez has suffered a baptism of fire since arriving in the Premier LeagueCredit: Alamy 2 Jaap Stam feels ErikContinue Reading
Facial recognition technology struggles to recognise darker skin tones Nazar Kantora/ Shutterstock One afternoon in our lab, my colleague and I were testing our new prototype for a facial recognition software on a laptop. The software used a video camera to scan our faces and guess our age and gender.Continue Reading
OLEKSANDR USYK has blazed his way to the summit of boxing. First winning gold at the London Olympics in 2012, to unifying the cruiserweight division and then becoming heavyweight champion, Usyk’s career has already been legendary. 3 Oleksandr Usyk won heavyweight gold at the 2012 Olympics 3 And unified theContinue Reading
COVID has been linked with a higher rate of psychiatric and neurological disorders. SewCream/Shutterstock The occurrence of mental health conditions and neurological disorders among people recovering from COVID has been a concern since early in the pandemic. Several studies have shown that a significant proportion of adults face problems ofContinue Reading
Aleksey Boyko/Shutterstock The most hated man on the internet, according to a new Netflix docuseries, is Hunter Moore. The convicted criminal and self-described “professional life ruiner” Moore enabled the non-consensual distribution of thousands of private images by founding “revenge porn” website Is Anyone Up?. The documentary captures what revenge pornContinue Reading
One of the most influential cryptocurrency projects is set to finally ditch proof-of-work mining.Continue Reading
Updated: 8.20pm A second man has been arrested as part of an investigation into a serious assault in Co Wicklow on August 2nd. Earlier, gardaí arrested a man in connection with the assault which took place at a house in Arklow in the early hours of the Tuesday morning. AContinue Reading
I t seems unimaginable, but Milly Alcock had never seen Game of Thrones when she clinched the role as one of the stars of its new spin-off House of the Dragon – which made it all the more impressive when she walked onto the set. “I was just like, ‘HolyContinue Reading
