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HRB invests a further €1 million into collaborative dementia network

This recently awarded funding will strengthen dementia research and improve care and quality of life for patients.

31 Jul 2025

New electronic voting platform preserves voter anonymity and electoral integrity

Researchers from Trinity and the Research Ireland ADAPT Centre have developed the platform, zkBallot, which resolves one of the core challenges in digital elections: ensuring both voter anonymity and public auditability.

31 Jul 2025

Innovation|Research|Science

Irish scientists unlock nature’s 500-million-year-old colour secrets with nano-tech breakthrough

Half a billion years ago nature evolved a remarkable trick: generating vibrant, shimmering colours via intricate, microscopic structures in feathers, wings and shells that reflect light in precise ways. Now, researchers from Trinity have taken a major step forward in harnessing it for advanced materials science.

30 Jul 2025

Health|Innovation|Research|Science

New research dispels myth of conspiracy theorists as isolated outsiders

Dr Stephen Murphy, from Trinity Business School, said: “The uncertainty and fear caused by the pandemic created the initial spark for conspiracy beliefs to prosper. In both places, there was a lot of anger around lockdown restrictions, vaccinations and the way that authorities were handling the situation.”

29 Jul 2025

Business|Community|Research

Trinity names its first professor specialising in cerebral palsy

The first Associate Professor of Cerebral Palsy has been appointed at Trinity College, supported by philanthropic funding through the Cerebral Palsy Foundation.

28 Jul 2025

Health|Research|Society

Seeing the unseen: Trinity team builds game-changing particle impact machine

The new machine, the first of its kind in Europe, allows users to visualise what happens when tiny particles hit a surface three times faster than a bullet. This information will enable engineers to make better materials and coatings for aircraft parts, medical implants, and help to simulate intergalactic collisions.

24 Jul 2025

Innovation|Research|Science

Twenty-four Trinity labs earn sustainable certifications

The 24 have today been awarded sustainable lab certifications under a Research Ireland-led programme piloted in partnership with Impact Laboratories and My Green Lab.

16 Jul 2025

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Why the Nazis stole a fragment of the Bayeux tapestry

Millie Horton-Insch, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the History of Art Department, Trinity, tells the tale of how a fragment of the Bayeux tapestry ended up in the Schleswig-Holstein state archives. This piece was first published by The Conversation.

15 Jul 2025

Arts|Culture|Research

Universities need restructuring for climate and community needs, study finds

Higher education institutions offer critical social infrastructure with untapped potential to contribute to more equitable and sustainable futures, according to new research.

15 Jul 2025

Culture|Environment|Research|Society|Students

National survey of intercountry adoption experiences launches

A new national survey of the lived experience of intercounty adoption for parents of children aged 0-12 has been launched today by researchers in Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork.

15 Jul 2025

Community|Research|Society