Through our sheer abundance, human activity is a pervasive influence on all ecosystems. Any influence can be appraised through cost-benefit analysis, which, I would suggest,…
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The pancreas is located in the abdominal cavity behind the stomach and produces pancreatic juices which contain digestive enzymes, and these enzymes help to break…
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Winston Churchill once said, “We shape our buildings, and afterward, our buildings shape us.” Buildings grow, adapt, and evolve just like the users that occupy…
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Cystinosis is a genetic disease that leads to the accumulation of cystine and the formation of intracellular crystals throughout the body, including in the kidney…
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Think about what you drank today. Odds are, you drank water at some point. For most of us, particularly in more developed countries, water might…
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It is not rare to find in the fossil record of vertebrates cases in which fossils from one or few extinct species predominate over others…
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During the last two decades, air pollution has been regarded as one of the toughest challenges facing human beings. As the key indicator of air…
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Why are forests relevant? Forest ecosystems contain large amounts of different groups of organisms and play a key role in biodiversity conservation across the world’s…
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The Holocene, the current geological epoch, spans approximately the last 11,700 years. Holocene temperature variability in Ireland is considered to have been relatively subdued; however, recent…
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Recent years have seen an increase in the number of robotic solutions geared toward social interactions with humans. Social robots are designed to collaborate and…
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The capacity to adapt and learn with experience is one of the most intriguing features of the brain. The recent dramatic success of artificial intelligence…
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