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Why have over a million Irish people downloaded the Covid-19 app?
Social and community bonds in Ireland remain strong and people see the app as an individual and collective response to the pandemic, writes Dr Aphra Kerr, Department of Sociology
Tuesday, 04 August 2020
Can you sue your robot?
Creating a legal personality and classification for robots raises a number of interesting issues, writes Dr David Cowan, Department of Law
Monday, 27 July 2020
From Booterstown to Burma: The Irish Buddhist tried for sedition in 1911
The tale of the Irishman who became a hugely popular Buddhist opponent of Christian missionaries is explored by Dr Laurence Cox, Department of Sociology
Monday, 20 July 2020
Uncovering the development processes of Eumycetoma
MU scientists have made important findings on a disfiguring fungal disease that affects people in tropical countries, writes Prof Kevin Kavanagh, Department of Biology
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
How patents will affect pandemic vaccines and treatments
Patents can have many unforeseen consequences for the provision of urgent medicines and tests needed to fight Covid-19, writes Dr Aisling McMahon, Department of Law
Tuesday, 07 July 2020
We're all Big Brother now
From dashcams to running apps, surveillance has been inadvertently privatised by the collective actions of individuals, writes Dr David Cowan, Department of Law
Monday, 29 June 2020
Unlocking the mysteries of the SARS-CoV-2 sugary-coated glycan shield
High performance computing has unveiled the atomic structure of the coronavirus’s spike protein, and crucially, its strengths and weaknesses, writes Dr Elisa Fadda, Department of Chemistry and Hamilton Institute
Thursday, 18 June 2020
The difference between feelings and beliefs around the pandemic
If we want to understand the populace, we need to concentrate on the feelings around the crisis and not the so-called beliefs, writes Prof Mary Corcoran, Department of Sociology
Wednesday, 10 June 2020
2020: the driest spring at Phoenix Park in Dublin since records began in 1837
A global pandemic means water has taken on a new public health importance and created new vulnerabilities, write Dr Simon Noone, Dr Conor Murphy and Csaba Horvath of ICARUS and the Department of Geography
Friday, 05 June 2020
Ten Steps on a High Road Covid Era Back to Work Strategy
We need to avoid returning to a ‘normal’ that did not work for many people, writes Dr Mary Murphy, Department of Sociology
Friday, 29 May 2020