Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern TD, said on the occasion of the opening: “I am delighted to have been asked to officially open the Naughton Institute at Trinity…
By employing a new technique – based on the same principle as police speed-measuring radar guns – to satellite radar data, scientists can now obtain…
This new study shows that genes – which are parts of double-stranded DNA with a double-helix structure containing a pattern of chemical bases – can recognise…
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a non-lethal disease but can have grave consequences for the patient. Such consequences can be prevented with a rapid and…
If a non-authorised person gets access to your pin code and credit card, most likely your money will disappear from your account. Nevertheless, this would be…
The £80 million shortfall in the Science and Technology Facilities (STFC) budget has resulted in a delivery plan that will lead to job losses at universities…
Pioneering research at the University of Sunderland has shown that regular exposure to safe low level infra-red light can improve learning performance and…
France’s energy record is already very good – it has one of the lowest carbon footprints in Europe and is meeting its Kyoto Treaty obligations. France has seen…
When skin is irreparably damaged by burns, skin taken from other areas of the patient’s body – or created by tissue engineering – is grafted onto the burned…
It will enable scientists to study atoms within materials in a way that has never before been possible and will pave the way for pioneering research relating…
The study, “Climate forcing from the transport sectors”, is the first comprehensive analysis of the climate effect from the transport sector as a whole on a…
The export product is an ingenious planning tool for renewal of the water supply network: simulation software that makes sure that the right pipelines are…
Dr Jonathon Hare from the University’s School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS) will deliver a presentation entitled MapSnapper: engineering an efficient…
However important these liquid/solid boundaries may be, conventional methods cannot measure basic mechanical properties of these interfaces in their natural…
Scientists at JILA have found one possible way to solve the blinking problem and have induced quantum dots to emit photons (the smallest particles of light)…
Reduction/oxidation (redox) systems research is reaching a stage where domains that traditionally belonged to the physical sciences, chemistry, and molecular…