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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
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Bees are still being harmed despite tightened pesticide regulations
A new study has confirmed that pesticides, commonly used in farmland, significantly harm bumblebees – Ireland’s most important wild pollinators. In a huge study spanning 106 sites across eight European countries, researchers have shown that despite tightened pesticide regulations, far more needs to be done.
29 Nov 2023
Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability
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Trinity to headquarter Climate+ Co-Centre
The new €41.3 million research centre will be the home of research, innovation, and policy development across the interlinked challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and water degradation on the islands of Ireland and Britain.
28 Nov 2023
Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability
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Deoxygenation levels similar to today’s played key role in marine extinctions during major past climate change event
Newly published research serves as a further warning that present day marine ecosystem stability is likely more fragile than apparent. And marine deoxygenation is projected to significantly increase in response to global warming and increased nutrient run-off from continents.
27 Nov 2023
Research|Science
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Trinity pair win European Research Council Consolidator Grants
Professors Kate Maguire and Michael Monaghan will use the funding from the EU Horizon Europe programme to better understand how and why stars explode, and to create a new cardiac patch to regenerate heart muscle.
23 Nov 2023
Awards and Funding|Research|Science
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How do we learn? Neuroscientists pinpoint how memories are stored in the brain
New work by a team led by Dr Tomás Ryan shows that learning occurs through the continuous formation of new connectivity patterns between specific "engram" cells in different regions of the brain.
21 Nov 2023
Research|Science
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Building national capacity for open research
Three Trinity projects have received funding under the National Open Research Forum (NORF) as part of a drive to build national capacity and infrastructure for open research.
20 Nov 2023
Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science|Society
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Plants might be able to absorb more CO2 from human activities than previously expected
This research paints an uncharacteristically upbeat picture for the planet, but despite the headline finding, the environmental scientists behind the work say it does not mean the world’s governments can take their foot off the brake in their obligations to reduce carbon emissions as fast as possible.
17 Nov 2023
Environment|Research|Science
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Accounting for nature a priority for Ireland’s prosperity – new report
The team behind a pioneering project for nature, INCASE, has issued a series of recommendations to value, restore and protect Ireland’s resources through applying a natural capital accounting framework as a national priority.
15 Nov 2023
Environment|Research|Science
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New research offers hope for reduced muscle wastage for cancer patients
Researchers from Trinity, in collaboration with Artelo Biosciences, have made a breakthrough in cancer cachexia. Their work shows the drug ART27.13 protects against the muscle degeneration associated with colon and lung cancers (cachexia) and believe it may also positively impact life expectancy.
10 Nov 2023
Health|Research|Science