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  TCD Foams and Complex Systems group feature on the cover of the American Journal of Physics

  A photograph of a buckled linear chain of soap bubbles, together with the corresponding computer simulation, features on the cover of the American Journal of Physics, May 2020. The article by members of the TCD Foams and Complex Systems group describes a simple experimental set-up for the exploration of the nonlinear properties of a chain of spheres under compression...........

  23 Apr 2020
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  Astrophysicists among an international group contributing to a new mission that will provide the first images of the uncharted polar regions of the Sun.

  The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Solar Orbiter spacecraft launched successfully earlier this week to perform close-up observations of the Sun from high-latitudes to better investigate the Sun-Earth connection.........

  14 Feb 2020
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  How supercomputers are helping us link quantum entanglement to cold coffee

  Theoretical physicists from the School of Physics have found a deep link between one of the most striking features of quantum mechanics – quantum entanglement – and thermalisation, which is the process in which something comes into thermal equilibrium with its surroundings........

  31 Jan 2020
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  Another Light Pollution Project Win at BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition

  For the second year in a row a light pollution-related project has gained a prize at the BTYST awards. Prof. Brian Espey of the School of Physics provided advice and encouragement for the project which involved a study of the effect of light pollution on the degradation of nitrate molecules, demonstrating a link between light and air pollution in the Irish context.......

  14 Jan 2020

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