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NASA: New Horizons Finds Its Destiny At Pluto

July 14, 2015 Wayne Talbot

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On February 18 in 1930, Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered the celestial body that is Pluto. I say celestial body because in 1992, due to the acknowledgement of the existence of the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt following the discovery of 1992 QB, Pluto was downgraded to a Dwarf Planet which is, if you ask me, a terrible case of planetary […]

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Book Club Review: Frankenstein

June 15, 2015 Jack Dempsey

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Last time, the subject of The Arcade’s weekly Book Club Review was a work that focused on a man’s life through chemistry. This week’s book is a work that speculates that the natural sciences (‘natural philosophy’ as it was known) might create life: Frankenstein. It is, of course, a book that is as well-known as it is misunderstood: many think […]

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Book Club Review: The Periodic Table

June 7, 2015 Jack Dempsey

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As Primo Levi‘s most famous work If This Is a Man (published in the US under the title Survival in Auschwitz) provided a vision of internment by the Third Reich, it is unsurprising that the text is often described by way of superlatives. Yet, it is The Periodic Table that Saul Bellow described as, “A book it is necessary to read” […]

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Dublin Scientist On Shortlist To Mars

February 17, 2015 Mairead

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Irish Astrophysicist and Trinity College Scientist Joseph Roche has made it to the final 100 in the shortlist to travel on a one way trip to Mars. If successful enough to reach the final 40, Joseph will fly to the red planet to estabilsh a permanent settlement by 2025. Those who are successful will be […]

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The Rosetta Orbiter – Philae Comet Mission

November 12, 2014 Wayne Talbot

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  The Rosetta Space agency are currently undertaking a fantastic mission. Their goal is land the Philae probe module on the surface of Comet 67P/C-G. Philae separated itself from the Rosetta orbiter at 9:03am this morning and began its seven hour descent towards Comet 67P/C-G and at Confirmation of a successful touchdown is expected in […]

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Your Very Own Personal Holodeck

October 7, 2014 Mairead

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Whether you find gaming on smartphones, PC’s or even  inch LCD screens too confining then Microsoft’s RoomAlive might be for you. It turns your whole room into a gaming environment. Similar to that of a Holodeck. RoomAlive was actually developed two years ago under the less attractive titles Beamatron and IllumiRoom. Microsoft bring together two […]

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Irish Teenagers Win The Google Science Fair 2014

September 27, 2014 Declan Doody

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Ciara Judge (16), Emer Hickey (16) and Sophie Healy-Thow (16) from Kinsale Co. Cork have beaten entries from 17 competitors from schools all over the world and taken the top prize at the Google Science Fair 2014. The trio continue their winning streak, having won the BT Young Scientist Award in 2013 and representing Ireland at the […]

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Racetrack Rocks Mystery Solved

September 20, 2014 Declan Doody

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No this isn’t school work or us pretending to be smart but it is us broadening our horizons and in an effort to do so we’ll be bringing you our favourite science story every Saturday! Where better to kick this off than with a mystery unravelled – the Racetrack Rocks. Over sixty years ago scientists […]

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