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Researchers achieve most precise measurement yet of the force that binds nuclear matter

Trinity's Prof. Stefan Sint, along with collaborators from Germany, Spain and Italy, has published the most precise determination to date of the strong coupling constant. This parameter governs the interactions between quarks and gluons, the fundamental components of nuclear matter.

15 Jun 2026

Research|Science

Farmers are key to restoring native woodlands – here’s what’s holding them back

PhD candidates Laqiqige Zhu, Trinity Business School and Kate Harrington, School of Natural Sciences, explain in this piece for The Conversation why Ireland is struggling to meet its tree-planting targets.

15 Jun 2026

Business|Research|Science

Sustainable aviation fuel supply remains structurally constrained

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin, with collaborators SMBC and SMBC Aviation Capital, have published a new report outlining the key barriers and actions required to scale SAF production and support aviation’s path to decarbonisation.

11 Jun 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Trinity to host Rinn Quantum and Rinn Advanced Therapies

Trinity will host two of the seven newly announced, Research Ireland-funded Rinn Centres – Rinn Quantum and Rinn Advanced Therapies – while acting as one of five coordinating institutions in a third (Rinn Artificial Intelligence).

10 Jun 2026

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science

Trinity team to repurpose injectable influenza vaccine into nasally delivered option

Researchers from Trinity’s School of Biochemistry and Immunology will lead a project to repurpose an injectable influenza vaccine into one administered nasally.

4 Jun 2026

Health|Research|Science

Dá laghad an géanóm is ea is ionsaithí an ailse – léiríonn staidéar nua éabhlóid thapa ailsí a mbaineann géanóim chraptha leo

Tá sé faighte amach ag taighdeoirí i gColáiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath, go bhfuil cineál éabhlóide ailse, ar tugadh neamhaird air den chuid is mó agus a spreagann galar ionsaitheach agus drochthorthaí othar, i bhfad níos forleithne ná mar a measadh roimhe seo.

2 Jun 2026

Health|Research|Science

New Trinity study reveals rapid evolution of cancers with shrunken genomes

Researchers at Trinity have found that a largely overlooked form of cancer evolution, which drives aggressive disease and poor patient outcomes, is far more widespread than previously thought.

2 Jun 2026

Health|Research|Science

Trinity to host new research on how immune system repairs brain

Prof. Denise Fitzgerald, from Trinity’s School of Medicine, has been awarded €6.26 million Research Professorship funding from Research Ireland to investigate how ageing affects the ways the immune system helps repair brain tissue in illnesses such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

27 May 2026

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science

Professor Samson Shatashvili appointed to Balzan General Prize Committee

Professor Samson Shatashvili, University Chair of Natural Philosophy (1847) and Director of the Hamilton Mathematics Institute at Trinity, has been appointed a member of the Balzan General Prize Committee.

26 May 2026

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

Trinity trio elected Members of the Royal Irish Academy

The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) celebrated Admittance Day on Friday 22 May, where 29 newly elected Members were officially admitted to the Academy for their exceptional contributions to the sciences, humanities and social sciences, as well as to public service.

26 May 2026

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