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Scientists engineer “Venus flytrap” bio-sensors to snare pollutants
The biological sensors change colour once they have successfully snared a target molecule, and will soon have a host of important environmental, medical and security applications.
19 Nov 2019
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GPS unlocks badger dispersal secrets
This research has major implications for implementing vaccination programmes to limit the spread of bovine tuberculosis (TB).
18 Nov 2019
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Going the extra mile! New research into badger dispersal could minimise bovine TB spread
The research has major implications for implementing vaccination programmes to limit the spread of bovine tuberculosis (TB) and comes at an opportune time, as a national programme to vaccinate badgers has recently commenced.
18 Nov 2019
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Academics launch Irish Association for Primary Science Education
The Association will promote the teaching and learning of science in primary schools throughout the island of Ireland.
14 Nov 2019
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Defining what consciousness is not, to help those with severe brain injury
Understanding how the brain produces consciousness and how it can be preserved after devastating brain injury is the focus of a new international research collaboration.
12 Nov 2019
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Trinity hosts Symposium on Dementia and Human Rights
The Symposium brought together international and national experts to discuss framing dementia as a disability and disability rights/human rights issue.
12 Nov 2019
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Trinity’s astrophysicists bring Mercury Transit to Irish public
The astrophysicists assisted hundreds of people, young and old, in viewing the Transit through a high-power telescope, while Mercury’s progress was also screened live on a large-screen TV.
11 Nov 2019
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Will Ireland survive 2050? Climate crisis in the spotlight
Yvonne Buckley, Professor of Zoology at Trinity, features on RTÉ One's 'Will Ireland Survive 2050?' documentary tonight [Monday 11th November] as the spotlight falls on the global climate crisis.
11 Nov 2019
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Astrophysicists to bring Mercury Transit to Irish public
A high-power telescope will offer the chance to observe the smallest planet in our solar system move across the face of the Sun.
8 Nov 2019
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Scientists take giant stride towards entirely renewable energy
Scientists from Trinity have taken a giant stride towards solving a riddle that would provide the world with entirely renewable, clean energy from which water would be the only waste product.
8 Nov 2019
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