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New project will improve EU hydropower sustainability with potential to save €1 billion per year
Researchers from Trinity will lead a €4.1 million Horizon Europe project to develop digital solutions that improve the efficiency, flexibility and sustainability of the existing EU hydropower fleet. The project will make a huge impact on energy sustainability in the EU, where 50% of the current hydro fleet may require upgrading by 2030.
7 Sep 2023
Environment|Innovation|Research|Sustainability
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Dr Thomas Laurent wins prestigious Lero Prize for work in software testing
Dr Laurent, from the School of Computer Science and Statistics, was recently awarded a Lero Director’s Prize for PhD / Post-Doctoral Researcher Contribution at the annual summit of the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Software.
6 Sep 2023
Awards and Funding|Research
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Astrophysicist wins European Research Council award to assess how life may emerge on other planets
Dr Luca Matrà has won a prestigious ERC Starting Grant valued at €1.5 million. He will use the funds to support a five-year research project aimed at understanding how exoplanets and exocomets can affect the presence of volatile molecules that could provide the potential building blocks of life on other Earth-like planets.
5 Sep 2023
Awards and Funding|Research|Science
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Who wants to write an email? Interactive quiz show about AI at Dublin Fringe Festival
A new interactive quiz show about AI-generated emails, developed by TLRH's Laura Allcorn & Jennifer Edmond, will open in The Lir Academy on September 9th as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival.
4 Sep 2023
Arts|Community|Research
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Scientists unpick how lung cells induce immune response to influenza
Researchers from Trinity have discovered some new and surprising ways that viral RNA and influenza virus are detected by human lung cells, which has potential implications for treating people affected by such viruses.
31 Aug 2023
Health|Research|Science
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Travellers suffer disproportionate burden of physical health conditions, review finds
Scoping review from Trinity College Dublin highlights the poor health of Travellers and the health disparity between Travellers and the general population in Ireland
29 Aug 2023
Health|Research
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Clinicians publish first guidelines for treating patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia
A collaborative group led by Trinity researchers has published the first guidelines for treating patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia (sCAP) – a high-mortality condition that describes people admitted to ICU.
21 Aug 2023
Health|Research
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Neuroscientists successfully test theory that forgetting is actually a form of learning
The team designed tests to explore the idea that “forgetting” might not be a bad thing, and that it may represent a form of learning – and outline results that support their core idea.
17 Aug 2023
Health|Research|Science
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Trinity-IBM team simulates super diffusion on a quantum computer
Trinity’s quantum physicists in collaboration with IBM Dublin have successfully simulated super diffusion in a system of interacting quantum particles on a quantum computer.
17 Aug 2023
Innovation|Research|Science
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Can a special immune protein in the body be harnessed to stop ovarian cancer?
A major new study, published in Nature, has discovered the anti-tumour activities of the immune protein interferon epsilon, which in pre-clinical models blocks the metastasis of ovarian cancer cells by instructing immune cells to kill the cancer cells.
16 Aug 2023
Health|Research|Science