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Ancient DNA analyses imply brucellosis evolved with development of farming
Scientists analysed ancient DNA extracted from an 8,000-year-old sheep bone and detected the Brucella melitensis pathogen. Brucellosis affects millions of people every year and causes significant harm to the welfare of livestock.
26 Jul 2024
Research|Science
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Elon Musk says he’s a ‘cultural Christian’ – why some leading thinkers are embracing Christianity
In The Conversation, Simon McCarthy-Jones considers the implications of why some conservatives are embracing Christianity but struggle to accept Christianity’s central supernatural claims, like Christ’s resurrection.
26 Jul 2024
Culture|Society
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Electrical currents may make body’s cancer-killing cells even better killers
The scientists behind the discovery hope their promising findings may open the door to new combined therapies for people living with certain brain tumours, such as glioblastoma.
25 Jul 2024
Health|Research|Science
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“Shark fitbit” provides first-ever data detailing basking shark response to boat strike
Data showing the immediate response of marine megafauna (e.g. whales, and large sharks) to boat strikes, which pose an increasing threat world-wide, had never been recorded before.
24 Jul 2024
Environment|Research|Science
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Trinity team’s wastewater heat recovery solution earns runner-up prize in Sustainable Development Goals Challenge
The REHEATZ team, led by Professors Aonghus McNabola, Padraig Carmody and Paul Coughlan have worked to develop the first hybrid wastewater heat recovery technology for application in Zambian food production.
22 Jul 2024
Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Sustainability
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Irish scientists pinpoint new drug target for RSV
The scientists have discovered how the dangerous Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) defuses our immune response and, in doing so, have pinpointed an exciting new target for drug developers.
18 Jul 2024
Health|Research|Science
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Physicists develop new theory describing the energy landscape formed when quantum particles gather together
Understanding the exact shape of energy landscapes of quantum particles can potentially make computer simulations of materials far more accurate. Such simulations are helping to design next-gen materials for use in physics, chemistry, and green technologies.
17 Jul 2024
Research|Science
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Irish peat soils – vital for the environment – are far more vast than we realised
Irish researchers have unveiled a new Irish Peat Soils Map (IPSM), which estimates that peat soils cover an area of 1.66 million hectares, which equates to over 23% of the country.
15 Jul 2024
Environment|Research|Science
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Formula Trinity team launches new race car in Front Square
Students from Formula Trinity, a team of over 100 representing the university in the international Formula Student engineering competition, unveiled their brand new race car at a special launch event in Front Square last week.
15 Jul 2024
Research|Students
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Scientists create computer program that “paints” the structure of molecules in the style of Piet Mondrian
Scientists from Trinity have created a computer program that “paints” the structure of molecules in the style of famous Dutch artist, Piet Mondrian, whose beautiful artworks will be instantly recognisable to many.
15 Jul 2024
Arts|Science
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If this analysis of Dublin's transport plan was submitted by a student, I would fail it
In an opinion piece originally published by The Journal, Trinity economist Barra Roantree us critical of new economic analysis that claims to show a lot of problems with the new Dublin city transport plan – but it doesn’t stack up
15 Jul 2024
Community|Environment|Sustainability
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Taha Yasseri named inaugural Workday Professor for Technology and Society at Trinity and TU Dublin
Professor Yasseri, who takes up his role on August 1 2024, will also be Director of a new TCD-TU Dublin joint centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines.
15 Jul 2024
Innovation|Research|Science
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Trinity’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel research unit gets new home
The SAF research facility will focus on the research, development and deployment of sustainable aviation fuels.
12 Jul 2024
Environment|Research
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Trinity researchers secure SFI-IRC Pathway awards
Dr Conor Finlay, Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, and Dr Colm Delaney, Chemistry, have been awarded funding under the Pathway programme announced by Minister Patrick O’Donovan.
11 Jul 2024
Research|Science
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Men’s experience of childhood with an imprisoned father focus of new research project
The School of Psychology research project will explore the experience of male children and the effect of imprisonment on their relationships with their father.
11 Jul 2024
Research|Society
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Trinity ranked 26th in Europe by QS University Rankings
QS assessed 685 institutions in the Europe region, using 12 performance indicators, some of which differ to those used for the QS World University Rankings 2025, in which Trinity ranked 87th.
10 Jul 2024
Awards and Funding|Research|Students
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Great white sharks in Ireland? International team plots September search
A group of Irish shark scientists will this September host OCEARCH, a US-based great white shark research non-profit, with the goal of documenting the first records of the famous species in Irish waters.
10 Jul 2024
Environment|Research|Science
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New study advances understanding of brain responses to emotionally-charged scenes
A new study published by Prof Sonia Bishop in Nature Communications advances our understanding of how the brain responds to emotionally charged objects and scenes.
9 Jul 2024
Research|Science
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Scientists discover how to improve vaccine responses to potentially deadly bacterium
The researchers from Trinity have taken a leap forward in understanding how we might fight back against the potentially deadly MRSA bacterium.
8 Jul 2024
Health|Research|Science
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Operation of the ‘in camera’ rule in Irish family law system to be examined
A new research project being undertaken by social policy experts in the School of Social Work and Social Policy and legal experts in University College Cork will uncover how the 'in camera rule' works in practice in Ireland.
8 Jul 2024
Research|Society