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Seashell saviours – Trinity team finds discarded oyster shells can clean polluted water by removing "rare earths"

New research from a team at Trinity College Dublin has unearthed a cheap and environmentally friendly new option for removing pollutants from our water. The key? Oyster shells that would ordinarily end up in landfill sites after consumption.

26 Mar 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Earlier detection, better outcomes: Irish researchers target rising bowel cancer rates with new blood test

Researchers from Trinity, Dublin City University and University College Dublin will use funding of €670,000 from Enterprise Ireland’s Commercialisation Fund to develop a breakthrough blood-based screening test.

26 Mar 2026

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science

Why are there no gigantic dragonflies terrorising the skies today?

Gigantic dragonfly-like insects – the “griffinflies” – ruled the skies around 300 million years ago, but they have long been consigned to evolution’s graveyard.

25 Mar 2026

Environment|Research|Science

Groundbreaking Trinity research reveals “leaky” brain barrier as driver of chronic brain damage in retired combat and collision sports athletes

The work, led by teams at Trinity and the FutureNeuro Research Ireland Centre, has pinpointed the mechanism linking some sports injuries to poor brain health in retired athletes.

18 Mar 2026

Health|Research|Science

We are in a digital version of the enclosures – like the landowners, big tech has power without responsibility

Nana Nwachukwu, PhD Candidate based in Trinity's AI Accountability Lab, writes for The Conversation, saying the recent Grok controversy represents the endpoint of a longer withdrawal from the responsibilities that once accompanied control of digital infrastructure.

9 Mar 2026

Business|Culture|Research|Science|Society

Trinity partners with Open Forum for AI to advance transparent and accountable AI systems

Researchers from ADAPT and Trinity bring particular strength and expertise in standards development, AI governance, and human-centered system design, helping to ensure that openness is built into the technology and the way it is deployed.

5 Mar 2026

Research|Science|Society

Acmhainní códaithe Gaeilge le cur ar fáil ag foireann Pytch i gcomhpháirtíocht le Kinia

Tá taighdeoirí ó Choláiste na Tríonóide, i gcomhpháirtíocht le Kinia, tar éis sraith nua d’acmhainní códaithe Gaeilge a chur le chéile atá deartha chun tacú le scoláirí meánscoile atá ag tosú ag códú le Pytch.

4 Mar 2026

Research|Science

Pytch team partners with Kinia to produce Irish-language coding resources

Researchers from Trinity, in partnership with Kinia, have produced a new set of Irish-language coding resources designed to support secondary school students beginning to code with Pytch.

4 Mar 2026

Research|Science|Students

Trinity-ADAPT team’s AI-enhanced, maritime vessel detection system wins Research Ireland's Defence Innovation Challenge

Researchers from Trinity and the ADAPT Research Ireland Centre for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology won the Maritime Situational Awareness Challenge after creating a system that will strengthen Ireland’s naval security.

25 Feb 2026

Awards and Funding|Environment|Innovation|Research|Science

Some animals “see the world" more quickly than others

From dragonflies to starfish, new Trinity research shows that the speed of visual perception across the animal kingdom is driven by lifestyle and environment, with fast-paced lives demanding faster vision.

24 Feb 2026

Environment|Research|Science