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Sex is everywhere. Sex sells. Sex is sold. Sex made you. It’s alternatively known as coitus, copulation, and sexual intercourse. It is performed by humans and all other sexually-reproducing animals. It can take many forms and exist in many different …
In this world of 7.5 billion people, humanity faces a myriad of problems. These range from continuing extreme poverty, curable diseases still causing premature deaths, the destruction of ecosystems that support our existence and much more. At this present moment, …
From antiquity to present day, people have sought out ways in which to heal themselves, to cure the disease of relatives, and to repair injuries. Some of the earliest written records of medicinal practises in Ancient Egypt tell us that …
A new Trinity research project will seek to address how a career as an athlete affects long term physical and mental health. The research is in collaboration with Rugby Players Ireland and Rowing Ireland and is being carried out by …
Rise up, or the tides will. Climate change is here, it will get worse, and we will face its increasingly devastating effects as we age. We are the generation born into a world sickening from carbon emissions, but we are …
Trudy Mackay, Director of Clemson University’s Center for Human Genetics (CHG) and a world-leading authority on quantitative genetics, will be awarded the Dawson Prize in Genetics tomorrow at the Stanley Quek Theatre in TBSI. Mackay will give a public lecture …
Robert Gaul is in the midst of wrapping up his PhD at Trinity, for which he has already landed two major biomedical engineering awards. Earlier this year, Gaul received the Biomedical Research Medal for his work from Engineers Ireland, having …
The meeting of international experts and keen listeners at the Schrödinger at 75 conference concerned the future of biology and was an opportunity to hear different scientific perspectives, but not only those of the speakers. Filling the auditorium of the …
Earlier this month, many great speakers, and even more listeners, filed into the National Concert Hall in Dublin to consider the legacy of Erwin Schrödinger’s lectures at Trinity in 1943. His philosophical thought experiments in the realms of biology sparked …
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, pro-chancellor at Trinity between 2013-2018, has received the Breakthrough prize for her work in discovering solar pulsars and a lifetime of leadership in the scientific community. Bell Burnell will receive a $3mn prize money and follows …