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Trinity graduate chasing EU Sustainable Energy Award success for world-first hydropower station in mine

The technology uses modular water pumps to create low-cost, small-scale hydropower stations capable of exploiting untapped energy within existing water pipes.

28 Sep 2021

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Government funding supports new platform that will help businesses act for biodiversity

Joint departmental backing from Government will help experts develop a national Business and Biodiversity Platform to enable the private sector to take practical, measurable actions to address the biodiversity crisis.

23 Sep 2021

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Spotlight On: Dr Alison Fernandes

In the second of our Spotlight On series, we meet Dr Alison Fernandes, Assistant Professor in Philosophy, and hear about her fascinating research into temporal asymmetry.

22 Sep 2021

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World Alzheimer’s Day: Giving up on research is not an option

Professor Iracema Leroi talks about the critical importance of clinical trials for Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia and how giving up is not an option when it comes to research.

21 Sep 2021

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Scientists secure €1 million grant to develop synthetic tendon and ligament implants modelled on embryonic tendons

Torn ligaments and tendons are the bane of athletes and runners. They are difficult to heal and often require months or years of rehab, meaning existing approaches are very costly and inefficient.

21 Sep 2021

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Trinity and DPD team up in new air quality monitoring project

The project uses smart sensors on buildings and delivery vans to track Dublin’s air quality in real-time. In Trinity, a sensor has been installed in New Square, to capture Particulate Matter (PM) 2.5 levels.

20 Sep 2021

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Dr Michelle Browne secures L’Oréal-UNESCO UK and Ireland For Women in Science 2021 Rising Talent fellowship

Dr Browne’s research is focused on the production of green (clean) hydrogen in water electrolysers for the generation of electricity.

17 Sep 2021

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Ancient DNA rewrites early Japanese history – modern day populations have tripartite genetic origin

Trinity's eye-opening research is published in leading international journal Science Advances and refines previously accepted views of a dual-genomic ancestry.

17 Sep 2021

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WATCH: Building bio tools to fight disease

Dr Joanna McGouran, from the School of Chemistry, talks about her work. This video features as part of the Trinity Research Stories campaign.

15 Sep 2021

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Further evidence that vitamin D might protect against severe COVID-19 disease and death

Researchers from Trinity College and the University of Edinburgh found that ambient UVB radiation at an individual’s place of residence preceding COVID-19 infection was strongly protective against severe disease and death.

15 Sep 2021

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Scientists create 3D-printed, microscopic gas sensors—painters’ pallets without even a hint of pigment

The sensors could be used in connected, low-cost devices for homes, or integrated in wearable devices used to monitor human health.

15 Sep 2021

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Legal experts raise data-protection red flags around key COVID-19 decisions taken in Ireland

In common with previous reports from the Observatory is the concern that there is a general lack of transparency in Ireland’s response to the pandemic and, as a result, it isn’t easy to ensure important decisions satisfy various legal requirements.

14 Sep 2021

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Quantum chemists conjure recipe to turn gold, silver and copper into vessels of green energy

Compounds based on these metal elements and hydrogen are very promising candidates for hydrogen storage. Such hydrogen could be used on board vehicles, for example.

8 Sep 2021

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The Irish Childhood Cancer Survivorship Project: Trinity research

To coincide with Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, we look at how Trinity researchers are designing an electronic Irish childhood cancer survivorship database.

7 Sep 2021

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Left-hooks, doorings, poor road surface conditions, LUAS tracks and kerbs often involved in Irish cycling collisions

New research into cycling road traffic collisions has identified a list of common collision scenarios for Ireland and underlined previously underappreciated issues on our roads.

1 Sep 2021

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Citizen engagement workshops invite public to explore artificial intelligence, our future and how we create it

Discuss AI is a multi-programme initiative run by the SFI ADAPT Centre for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology.

25 Aug 2021

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Understanding the variability in responses to COVID-19 illness in older adults

Researchers from the School of Medicine and Tallaght University Hospital are represented amongst an international consortium of leading clinical research institutes investigating the variability in older people's responses to COVID-19.

19 Aug 2021

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Sleepy Surgeons: The effect of sleep deprivation on surgical performance

Researchers say that the way we deliver emergency healthcare work alongside normal work in Ireland has to change. The study is published in the Journal of Surgical Research.

18 Aug 2021

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New TILDA report reveals hopes and resilience of older adults through COVID

Research gives voice to those most affected by policy restrictions during the COVID pandemic and calls into question society's attitudes to ageing.

17 Aug 2021

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Cancer-killing cells are diverted into fat and away from tumours in obese cancer patients

Scientists have, however, discovered a key biological pathway that – when targeted with drugs – can reduce the extent to which the cancer-killing cells are erroneously diverted.

9 Aug 2021

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Researchers find inappropriate and unnecessary vitamin D testing in Dublin

Researchers found that one in four patients have their vitamin D frequently checked by their GP, and yet some remain deficient after several tests. Young adults and males were most likely to have low vitamin D but were retested the least.

4 Aug 2021

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The music of silence: imagining a song triggers similar brain activity to moments of mid-music silence

Researchers have discovered that our brains encode musical predictions even without music. These new insights into sensory prediction also have implications in clinical settings.

3 Aug 2021

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“That’s not another dogfish…” Researchers film large, prehistoric looking shark off Co. Clare coast

In what is a European first, a team of marine biologists from Trinity, Queen’s University Belfast and Fjordstrong have filmed a giant sixgill shark swimming in Irish coastal waters.

30 Jul 2021

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Trinity researchers and Inclusion Ireland bridge gap in playground communication

Researchers from the School of Psychology have collaborated with Inclusion Ireland to lead an innovative community initiative to assist children with communication difficulties to interact with their peers.

29 Jul 2021

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Explore the hidden SYSTEMS that surround us, at home with the Science Gallery

SYSTEMS the exhibition was scheduled to open in the summer of 2020 - but COVID-19 soon made those plans obsolete - so the Science Gallery have reimagined a way to explore and untangle the many complex systems around us, at home.

22 Jul 2021

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Geneticists pinpoint how a mutation causes devastating childhood cancer and successfully target tumour cells with tailored drug

This landmark work translates crucial new understanding of the genetics of diffuse midline glioma progression into a highly promising, targeted therapeutic approach, and offers significant hope of improved treatments in the future.

22 Jul 2021

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High COVID-19 infection rates in Northern Ireland increased cases in bordering Irish counties

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin analysed official statistics on confirmed COVID-19 cases on the island of Ireland for 52 weeks from March 2020.

21 Jul 2021

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COVID-19 vaccine acceptance higher in low- and middle-income countries than richer countries

The study comes as vaccine hesitancy across the world is complicating policy decisions and endangering the progress made to date.

21 Jul 2021

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Éanlaith ag éagsúlú go tapa in Oirdheisceart na hÁise – tá taighde nua ar Chabairí na Sulaivéise ag léiriú nithe ceilte dúinn maidir leis an éabhlóid

Tá zó-eolaithe tar éis torthaí nua a fhoilsiú óna gcuid oibre ar éanlaith in Oirdheisceart na hÁise, a thugann léiriú ar na nascanna idir iompraíocht ainmhithe, an gheolaíocht, agus an éabhlóid. Is léir uathu gur féidir le speiceas athrú níos tapúla ná mar a bheadh coinne leis, faoi choinníollacha áirithe.

20 Jul 2021

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Rapidly diversifying birds in Southeast Asia – the Sulawesi babblers are teaching us fresh things about evolution

The work, led by zoologists from Trinity, makes new connections between animal behaviour, geology, and evolution – and underlines that species can diversify surprisingly quickly under certain conditions.

20 Jul 2021

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