Category: Technology

Dublin — 5 December 2025 — Ireland has secured €35 million in European Union funding to accelerate the rollout of next‑generation digital infrastructure, marking a significant boost to national connectivity and technological capacity. The investment, awarded under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), will support high‑performance networks, 5G transport‑corridor pilots and Smart Community initiatives across the […]

Orawan Pattarawimonchai/Shutterstock The Beatles’ song Yesterday was written in what psychologists refer to as the “hypnagogic state”. This is the twilight zone between sleep and wakefulness, when we drowsily linger in a semi-conscious state, experiencing vivid mental images and sounds. Waking up one morning in early 1965, Paul McCartney became aware of a long complex […]

Inna_Kandybka/Shutterstock Most of us go through the day without thinking much about our bodies – until something goes wrong. Yet beneath that apparent simplicity lies a remarkable achievement: the brain must constantly knit together sights, touches and signals from muscles and joints into a coherent sense of “this body is mine”. Psychologists and neuroscientists call […]

China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station and return to Earth, but there’s nothing routine about its journey home. The Shenzhou-20 capsule will carry no crew, because one of its windows has been struck by space debris. Astronauts noticed an apparent […]

New genetic research is shedding light on some of the earliest chapters of our human history. In one of the largest studies of its kind, scientists analysed DNA from 28 individuals who lived in southern Africa between 10,200 and a few hundred years ago. The study provides more evidence that hunter-gatherers from southern Africa were […]

Pawel Papis/Shutterstock Humans have moved plants and animals well beyond their native ranges, across barriers that normally prevent dispersal. As a result, people have increased the rates of hybridisation between populations that were once isolated for thousands, or even millions, of years. Animal hybrids are a controversial issue among scientists, as they often suffer from […]

Appsky Google recently unveiled Project Suncatcher, a research “moonshot” aiming to build a data centre in space. The tech giant plans to use a constellation of solar-powered satellites which would run on its own TPU chips and transmit data to one another via lasers. Google’s TPU chips (tensor processing units), which are specially designed for […]

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has shaken up the global tech landscape with the release of two new open-source AI models that it claims rival or surpass leading U.S. systems such as OpenAI’s GPT‑5 and Google’s Gemini‑3 Pro VentureBeat Mathrubhumi English. Breakthrough Models The company introduced DeepSeek‑V3.2 and DeepSeek‑V3.2‑Speciale, designed to excel in complex reasoning, […]

UK scientists have played a key role in solving a neutrino mystery that has challenged researchers for decades. Scientists, including researchers from several UK universities, working on the MicroBooNE experiment have found no evidence of a long-suspected fourth type of neutrino, known as the ‘sterile neutrino’. The experiment was carried out at the US Department […]

The question of when people first arrived in the land mass that now comprises much of Australasia has long been a source of scientific debate. Many Aboriginal people believe they have lived on the land since time immemorial. But until the advent of radiocarbon dating techniques, many western scholars thought they had arrived not long […]