The new stg£6.8m Advanced Engineering Competence Centre in Belfast will focus on developing innovative solutions in the advanced engineering sector
- Irish Tech Firm Uses Virtual Reality to Transform the Way New Developments are Presented to the Public A major innovation introduced by an Irish visualisation company is set to transform the way proposers of projects, such as wind farms, engage with local communities and stakeholders. Innovision, which...
- CONSUS Adds Iteris ClearAg Environmental Intelligence to Crop Research and Development Platform Iteris Inc, the global leader in applied informatics for transportation and agriculture, has announced that CONSUS, a research partnership between University College Dublin (UCD) and Origin Enterprises plc (Origin), will add...
- Irish Tech Company Launches Augmented Reality Hand-washing App In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, an Irish tech company has launched a hand-washing app to ensure health professionals, workers and the general public are correctly washing their hands to...
- Vivid Edge Wins the Sustainability Award at 2020 SFA National Small Business Awards Vivid Edge, the energy efficiency specialist company, has won the Sustainability Category Award at the 2020 SFA National Small Business Awards. The aim of the Awards, now in its sixteenth...
- Major Infant Health Collaboration Announced by APC Microbiome Ireland With DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences A €6.3 million, four-year new joint research project aims to develop microbiome-based solutions to establish a healthy microbiome in early life to facilitate the long-term health of individuals. DuPont Nutrition...
![Enterprise Ireland-backed venture capital investment rises](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/R-Bruton-200x157_c.jpg)
Investment firms backed by Enterprise Ireland invested €5m more last year than in 2012, according to the semi-State agency. Firms
![UCD wins ESA contract to reduce vibrations in space rockets](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ariane-6-rocket-art-200x157_c.jpg)
Researchers at University College Dublin have won a €250,000 contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to reduce not-so-good vibrations
![Scientists develop blackest material ever created](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Blackmatter-200x157_c.jpg)
Reminded of the line from Father Ted about whether a priest’s sock is black or very, very, very dark blue,
![Lack of venture capital and Skills shortage could cost thousands of software jobs](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/laptop-workers-200x157_c.jpg)
Ireland’s vibrant and growing software industry risks losing thousands of new jobs to other countries because of the shortage of
![40 projects to receive €23m from SFI and Irish Government](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/TestTubeMoney2-200x157_c.jpg)
Forty scientific projects ranging from microbiology to clean energies are to benefit from €23m in research funding, the result of
![DCU researchers analyse World Cup tweets to improve machine translation](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/brasil_2014_bid-200x157_c.png)
Dublin City University (DCU) researchers, in collaboration with Microsoft Research at the CNGL Centre for Global Intelligent Content in Dublin,
![WIT researchers receive €1.2m in EI Commercialisation Fund](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/WIT2-200x157_c.jpg)
Three researchers from the Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) have jointly been awarded €1.2m by Enterprise Ireland (EI) as part
![Grace app co-creator looks beyond limits to innovate](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Lisa-Domican-200x157_c.jpg)
In order to innovate we need to break both technology and our ways of thinking, says Lisa Domican, co-creator of
![Scientists discover serious candidate for most Earth-like planet](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Planets-space-200x157_c.jpg)
Gliese 832c, a planet about 16 light years away from Earth, has excited the scientists who found it, since Gliese
![AMBER reseachers discover ‘revolutionary’ material for ICT](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Amber-logo-200x157_c.jpg)
A team of researchers from the AMBER centre at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) are behind the discovery of a new
![Royal Society signs deal with SFI for research fellowships](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/SFIEnglishStacked-200x157_c.jpg)
The Royal Society in the UK and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) have signed an agreement whereby Ireland’s leading young scientists
![Studies show, Monkeys also believe in winning streaks.](/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Monkeys-200x157_c.jpg)
Humans have a well-documented tendency to see winning and losing streaks in situations that, in fact, are random. But scientists
![Breast cancer drug hope from leukaemia research](/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Microscope01-200x157_c.jpg)
Leukaemia research may lead to new drugs for difficult-to-treat breast cancers, say scientists. These types of tumours cannot be treated
![Watching too much TV may increase risk of early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death from any cause](/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/TV-Watcher-200x157_c.jpg)
Adults who watch TV for three hours or more each day may double their risk of premature death compared to
![Irish scientists criticised over funding success rate](/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/TestTubeMoney2-200x157_c.jpg)
The President of the European Research Council has said Irish scientists are not winning as much research funding from it
![Scientists Develop Self-Powered Pacemakers](/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Pacemaker-200x157_c.jpg)
As the number of pacemakers implanted each year reaches into the millions worldwide, improving the lifespan of pacemaker batteries has
![Huawei to spend US$6m on research and development in Ireland this year](/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/huawei-front-200x157_c.jpg)
Chinese smartphone and telecoms equipment giant Huawei said its total R&D investment in Ireland will expand in the coming years
![AMBER research centre announces partnership with Bell Labs](/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/AMBER-200x157_c.jpg)
AMBER, the materials science institute headquartered at Trinity College Dublin has announced a new strategic partnership with Bell Labs regarding
![Mary Maloney appointed CEO of CoderDojo](/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/mary-maloney-200x157_c.png)
The CoderDojo Foundation is to be headed up by new a CEO, Mary Maloney, and is changing its structure to