Science - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin

AI could make cities autonomous, but that doesn’t mean we should let it happen

Trinity's Prof Federico Cugurullo believes we should be very careful before handing control of our cities to AIs. He writes about AI urbanism and the challenges ahead in this piece for The Conversation.

4 Jan 2024

Culture|Science|Society|Sustainability

RTE films Christmas broadcast with Gaia in the Old Library

News presenter Samantha Libreri picked Trinity College Dublin’s Old Library, which is currently home to a revolving sculpture of the globe called Gaia, as the backdrop for a Santa news item shown on Christmas Eve.

24 Dec 2023

Science|Society

Wells and Wellbeing – new book links the water science and traditions behind Irish holy wells

Dr Bruce Misstear, Fellow Emeritus in Trinity’s School of Engineering, recently launched a new book – Wells and Wellbeing, The Hydrogeology of Irish Holy Wells.

21 Dec 2023

Culture|Environment|Science

12 things we learned in 2023, thanks to Trinity research

In the last year Trinity’s researchers have made significant contributions to their fields, enriching our culture, building better futures and increasing our understanding of the world we live in.

20 Dec 2023

Culture|Health|Research|Science

Yes, climate change is a crisis. But let’s stop using the language of war

We talk about the need for improved flood defences, the need to protect ourselves against the forces of nature. But what we really need is to work with nature, writes Prof Iris Möller in an analysis piece first published in The Irish Times.

19 Dec 2023

Research|Science|Sustainability

Trinity researchers win distinguished IRC Advanced Laureate Awards

Seven researchers across a range of disciplines at Trinity have been announced as successful applicants to the Irish Research Council (IRC) Advanced Laureate Awards (ALA) programme.

12 Dec 2023

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science|Society

Seti: how we’re searching for alien life at previously unexplored frequencies

Is there life beyond Earth? The question has turned out to be one of the hardest to answer in science. Find out how astrophysicists from Trinity are seeking ET in this piece published by The Conversation.

7 Dec 2023

Research|Science

SandboxAQ funds two Quantum Science and Technology MSc scholarships for under-represented students

As part of an ongoing collaboration these scholarships, available to students from the Global South, will help train the future quantum workforce and bring greater diversity to the quantum ecosystem.

6 Dec 2023

Awards and Funding|Research|Science|Students

How AI can decode ancient scripts – from medieval manuscripts to hieroglyphics

The ethics and dangers of AI have received important attention over the past year, but its power to make legible and navigable our cultural heritage also deserves attention, writes Dr Mark Faulkner in this piece for The Conversation.

5 Dec 2023

Arts|Culture|Science

Why reading nursery rhymes and singing to babies may help them to learn language

New research shows that babies learn from rhythmic information – the changing emphasis of syllables in speech – which, unlike phonetic information, can be heard in the womb.

1 Dec 2023

Research|Science