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The Irish that Battled Blight, Plague, Flu and TB
“The dance of death” by Michael Wolmegut (1493) [Credit: Wikimedia Commons]Irish history is littered with stories of death and destruction, from the days of Cromwell to the Civil War. But, diseases...
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Top Research Supporting Irish Agri-Sector
Irish dairy cattle graze out in the open all year round, unlike many other countries [Credit: Irish National Diary Council]Ireland has great natural advantages when it comes to dairy farming, and...
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GM potato trial results in blight-free crops
Blight, a fungal infection, destroyed Irish potatoes during the Great Famine 1845-1852, and it remains a problem here today [Credit: Frogblog.ie]Genetically modified, or GM, potatoes planted last...
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Chemical differences when men and women argue
Men and women react differently – chemically – during an argument and during the aftermath ‘cooling down’ period. [Credit: Forbes.com]A body of scientific evidence shows that men and women differ –...
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The Energy Saver: Jean Malone, Siemens Ireland
Jean Malone, pictured above, has found career success at Siemens Ireland as Manager of its Dublin-based Energy Centre As fuel costs rise, industry must find ways to reduce its energy costs in the...
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UCD team break cryptography world record
Online security may have to be reviewed after a UCD team broke the world record for solving a famously hard problem used for encryption. Credit [www.geekersmagazine.com]A team of mathematicians from...
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The ‘Nano’ Tester: Professor Stefano Sanvito, CRANN
Professor Stefano Sanvito, Deputy Director of CRANN, pictured here in the Long Library at TCD [Credit: CRANN]Lighter, stronger, more fuel-efficient airplanes; more powerful, better targeted drugs, and...
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Boredom – It really is a killer!
The boredom of this Moscow street seller could be very bad for her health [Credit: Wikipedia]Boredom in work, or at home, is quite literally a killer, according to a growing body of evidence linking it...
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Gay people in Ireland seven times more likely to attempt suicide
Gay people in Ireland have a tenfold risk of self-harm behaviours (Credit: Adam Lau) Gay people in Ireland are seven times more likely to attempt suicide than heterosexuals, according to new research...
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The Gene Hunter: Dr Aoife McLysaght, TCD
Aoife McLysaght speakingat the TEDx event in Dublin in 2012 [Credit: Science Gallery]In World War 11 the RAF hired a statistician called Abraham Wald to analyse planes returning from air combat. Metal...
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Science education should not be treated as a product
Science educators must use their creativity to excite their students. (Credit: http://www.edudemic.com) There are many problems (issues if you’d prefer) facing Irish science education but the most...
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The Safety Engineer: Emmet Tobin, Millipore Ireland
Emmet Tobin, engineer with Millipore Ireland, pictured here enjoying some time off with his dog Skipper on Bunmahon Beach Co Waterford (Credit: Emmet Tobin) Pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices...
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3D printing: potential to save and take life
The world’s first gun produced by a 3D printing machine (Credit: HowStuffWorks.com) By Eimear O’Neill - Guest Writer Three-dimensional printing has arrived and, like all new technologies it has...
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How Irish Scientists Changed the World
Credit: Londubh Books My book, How Irish Scientists Changed the World, Londubh Books, has hit the bookshops. This tells the story of 17 scientists, Irish born or with strong Irish links, that did work...
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The Public Defender: Janette Carroll, Forest Laboratories, Dublin
Janette Carroll, pictured, is a quality control scientist with Forest Laboratories in Dublin Some five million prescriptions are written every year in Ireland for mental illnesses alone. Each and every...
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Irish Sun: An Irish tabloid supporting science
Science is often portrayed as obscure, elitist and beyond the grasp, and interest of the ordinary man, and woman, in the street. I have always thought that this notion was nonsense. A case in point...
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The Public Defender: Janette Carroll Forest Laboratories, Dublin
Janette Carroll, pictured here, is a quality control scientist working in Dublin (Credit: Janette Carroll) Some five million prescriptions are written every year in Ireland for mental illnesses alone....
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The Process Scientist: Brian Moran, Pfizer Grangecastle
Brian Moran holds a doctorate from DCU and now works as a process scientist with Pfizer at Grangecastle in Dublin (Credit: Brian Moran) Whether it’s for heart disease, or depression, the drugs that...
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Protein injections reduce hereditary lung disease
Hereditary emphysema affects thousands of Irish people (Image provided courtesy of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) The lives of 12,000 Irish people affected by a hereditary lung condition...
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Cloud computing costs to fall thanks to TCD and IBM Dublin
Researchers in Dublin at Trinity College and IBM have developed mathematical algorithms that can reduce the cost of cloud computing (credit: thinkstockphotos.com) The cost of ‘cloud computing’ data...
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