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Trinity College Unveils New Nanotechnology Research Facility

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…

Physics & Astronomy

New Radar Satellite Technique Reveals Ocean Current Insights

By employing a new technique – based on the same principle as police speed-measuring radar guns – to satellite radar data, scientists can now obtain…

Life & Chemistry

‘Telepathic’ genes recognise similarities in each other

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…

Health & Medicine

New Techniques Enhance Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Diagnosis

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…

Information Technology

Face Recognition Enhances Security Against Unauthorized Access

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…

Physics & Astronomy

Institute of Physics Calls for Moratorium Amid STFC Budget Cuts

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…

Health & Medicine

New Research Reveals Infrared Light Benefits for Dementia Care

Pioneering research at the University of Sunderland has shown that regular exposure to safe low level infra-red light can improve learning performance and…

Power and Electrical Engineering

France’s Photovoltaic Tech: Boosting Energy Growth

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…

Health & Medicine

Polymer Gel Stops Skin Grafts From Shrinking After Burns

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…

Physics & Astronomy

New Ultra-Powerful Microscope Probes Atomic Structure Insights

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…

Studies and Analyses

Transport Sector’s Climate Impact: Cars Heat, Ships Cool

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…

Information Technology

SINTEF Launches Innovative Tool for Water Supply Planning

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…

Information Technology

New Algorithm Enhances Digital Map Technology

Dr Jonathon Hare from the University’s School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS) will deliver a presentation entitled MapSnapper: engineering an efficient…

Physics & Astronomy

Measuring Mechanical Properties of Liquid-Gel Interfaces

However important these liquid/solid boundaries may be, conventional methods cannot measure basic mechanical properties of these interfaces in their natural…

Physics & Astronomy

JILA solves problem of quantum dot 'blinking'

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)…

Interdisciplinary Research

Chimeric Polypeptides: Shedding Light on Cellular Redox States

Reduction/oxidation (redox) systems research is reaching a stage where domains that traditionally belonged to the physical sciences, chemistry, and molecular…

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