If you’re looking for an idea on how to creatively use garden space to help our changing climate, three Trinity students have it. The project is aptly named “No Mow Gardens” and strives to move away from a culture of …
Lucy Fitzsimmons is the SciTech co-Editor of Trinity News, and a Junior Sophister student of Chemical Sciences.
Could AI help students pick their CAO courses?
A UCC startup hopes to help students make the difficult choice by analysing past data
What CAO courses to put on their list is arguably the hardest decision students have to make in the course of their secondary education. At the time, the list of third-level courses seems to be fixing the course of their …
Trini-Screen: How research at Trinity’s Covid-19 screening programme could accelerate testing
The service uses LAMP analysis techniques which, when used alongside current HSE methods, could get results back faster
Trini-Screen, Trinity’s own campus-based Covid-19 screening programme, is still in its early days, but with backing from campus residents, it has the potential to change the way we test for the virus in the future.
Plans for on-campus testing were …
Green Labs in Trinity: working towards sustainable science
Trinity PhD students are working together to change outdated and unsustainable lab practices
Science labs are some of the most waste intensive workplaces in the world, and the Trinity labs are certainly not exempt from this. The average science lab uses 10 times more energy per annum than the average office space, and …
The Conscious Cup Campaign: Reducing disposables while staying Covid-safe
The provost’s sustainability advisor explains how we can make sustainable changes on campus
Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have seen an unfortunate return in the popularity of disposables: coffee cups, food containers, and masks to name a few. As the world began to slow to its pre-lockdown halt it was …
Trinity researchers sequence genomes of Irish Vikings and uncover Norwegian origins
The research busts the blonde haired, blue-eyed Viking image and shows that natives also adopted the Viking way of life
Irish Viking genomes have been sequenced for the first time by a group of researchers from Trinity and the National Museum of Ireland. The research was part of a wider, six-year-long study of Viking genomes published today in the leading …
New material created by Trinity team could increase efficiency of data storage
The material has the potential to increase the capacity of the global fibre optic network tenfold
Trinity researchers from the School of Physics and the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN) have created a new material which has enabled them to perform magnetic switching at ultra-fast speeds. This could have significant effects on …
Trinity’s Prof Tomás Ryan awarded prestigious 2020 Lister Institue Research Prize
The funds will be used to further research into infantile amnesia
Prof Tomás Ryan, of the School of Biochemistry and the Trinity Institute of Neurosciences, is one of four awardees of the 2020 Lister Institue Research Prize. Prof Ryan is the first scientist in an Irish higher education institution to receive …
Potential new therapies for osteoporosis made possible by Trinity team discovery
The research into bone renewing mechanisms could be harnessed to treat osteoporosis
Trinity researchers at AMBER (the centre for Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research) and the Schools of Engineering and Pharmacy have discovered the long sought after mechanism by which exercise aids bone growth, which could help to develop new therapies for …
Oxford team led by Trinity alum sees major breakthrough in Covid-19 vaccine
The vaccine is the first to be declared safe and effective following human trials
A team of Oxford scientists led by Trinity alum Professor Adrian Hill have made a significant breakthrough with ongoing work on a Covid-19 vaccine as a first round of human trials indicate that the vaccine is safe and produces a …