Scientists from the University of Glasgow have claimed to have cracked the process of creating hydrogen fuel from water 30 times faster and is fast, cheap and clean. The ability
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Researchers in the UK are attempting to obtain a better understanding of sports-related concussions by developing a detector that could be administered to an injured player beside the pitch. The
Scientists from the Geological Survey of Ireland and University College Dublin (UCD) have launched a new geological atlas of the north-east of the Atlantic Ocean to aid exploration and research
Scientists have been able to send a simple mental message from one person to another without any contact between the two, thousands of miles apart in India and France. Research
Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT) will become a technological university, according to a new strategic plan published today. According to the new vision statement for the institute, AIT “will be a technological
Scientists from University College Cork (UCC) have developed a micro-needle patch that lowers the amount of vaccine needed for the treatment of malaria and could potentially be used on other
A Galway couple’s start-up has developed technology that will transform aerial drones from weapons of war into life-saving devices that can pinpoint victims by identifying their mobile signals in disaster
NUI Galway is challenging primary and secondary school students across Ireland to create videos on science topics for the ReelLIFE SCIENCE competition and perhaps win more than €3,000 in prizes.
IT Sligo’s new €17m science building named after an Irish scientist who conducted research in a hayloft over his stables is to receive its official opening today by Taoiseach Enda
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin’s School of Engineering have been selected to lead an EU consortium in the design of a futuristic aircraft that produces less noise pollution and carbon
The concept of robots replacing humans at their jobs is nothing new, but now robots could replace sheepdogs after scientists cracked just how the canines herd flocks. The Guardian reported on
A futuristic space weapon developed by the US Army capable of hitting any target on Earth within an hour was destroyed just seconds after it was test-fired yesterday. The hypersonic
Princeton University researchers have developed a way to use a laser to measure people’s blood sugar, and, with more work to shrink the laser system to a portable size, the
Six of the top 10 companies on Forbes magazine’s list of The World’s Most Innovative Companies 2014 have Irish operations, with Salesforce.com coming in at No 1. The San Francisco,
Research from ColumbiaUniversityMedicalCenter shows that nerves may play a critical role in stomach cancer growth and that blocking nerve signals using surgery or Botox® (onabotulinumtoxinA) could be an effective treatment
Ordinary rubber bands could be transformed into wearable sensors for monitoring blood pressure, joint movement and blood glucose, as a result of a discovery by researchers at the AMBER materials
Scientists in Northern Ireland claim they have made a significant advance in the fight against hospital superbugs, including those most resistant to antibiotics. Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast, working with
Dr Marion McAfee is looking to monitor and improve the manufacture of materials for devices that the body can resorb when their work is done. If you have a clogged
BT has again created a €75,000 accommodation grant to help regional schools around Ireland to compete in the 2015 BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition. Since introducing the scheme in
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) has delivered what it says it the largest govt/industry collaboration yet – seven research centres in areas like big data amounting to an investment of €300m
Irish biotech start-up Inform Bioscience has signed a licence agreement with the Mayo Clinic in the US to acquire biomarkers for developing a prognostic test to detect pre-eclampsia in pregnancy.
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The new stg£6.8m Advanced Engineering Competence Centre in Belfast will focus on developing innovative solutions in the advanced engineering sector
Investment firms backed by Enterprise Ireland invested €5m more last year than in 2012, according to the semi-State agency. Firms
Forty scientific projects ranging from microbiology to clean energies are to benefit from €23m in research funding, the result of
In order to innovate we need to break both technology and our ways of thinking, says Lisa Domican, co-creator of
A team of researchers from the AMBER centre at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) are behind the discovery of a new
The President of the European Research Council has said Irish scientists are not winning as much research funding from it
As the number of pacemakers implanted each year reaches into the millions worldwide, improving the lifespan of pacemaker batteries has
Chinese smartphone and telecoms equipment giant Huawei said its total R&D investment in Ireland will expand in the coming years
AMBER, the materials science institute headquartered at Trinity College Dublin has announced a new strategic partnership with Bell Labs regarding
The CoderDojo Foundation is to be headed up by new a CEO, Mary Maloney, and is changing its structure to
Google is building cars that do not have steering wheels, accelerator pedals or brake pedals, in an ambitious expansion of
A venture capital company is to establish a fund of $172m (€125m) that will invest in Irish companies. The Government
With its palm open, the robot is completely motionless. A split second later, it suddenly unwinds and catches all sorts
More than 60 high-end science and technology research jobs, as well as 55 construction jobs, will be created at the
Irish scientists have registered a world first in the production of a substance called graphene, an advanced material that looks set
Physicist Dr Dennis Jennings has become the first Irish person to be inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. Dr Jennings has
An Israeli startup has said it was working to develop a bio-organic system that can recharge a smartphone battery in
Eircom has revealed 700,000 Irish homes will be capable of receiving 100Mbps broadband via VDSL by the end of this
From today, some 50 companies and 6,000 workers at the East Point Business Park in Dublin will have access to
Eoin Dowling’s Silicon Valley and Dublin-based start-up BoxFish has raised US$7m in venture capital from Atlantic Bridge Capital and consumer
EcoWatch has been named ‘Ireland’s Most Promising Start-up’ for a smart-grid solution or service as part of the EirGrid and
TechShop is coming to Ireland. The high-tech ‘maker space’ and Dublin City University (DCU) are today announcing an alliance that
From its low-key offices near the centre of Berlin, Rocket Internet has turned the usual business model for technology companies
While Ireland performed well above the EU average on international scientific co-publications and licence and patent revenues from abroad, it
Entrepreneurship, cybercrime and cyberwar will be amongst the topics under discussion at a series of events at Cork Institute of
A new research centre for the development of new plastic technologies with far-reaching applications across multiple sectors has opened at
The Rubicon Centre, situated on the campus of Cork Institute of Technology is Ireland’s leading business innovation hub. It also
Now in its fifth year, the BT Young Scientist Business Bootcamp will host 29 second-level students from across Ireland who
Irish entrepreneur Sean Fee has launched a social media site for gamers that aims to serve the US$66bn-a-year video-games industry.
Participants of the recent IWISE event in Washington, DC, discussed how to encourage women in science and engineering. What’s the
Dublin-based software and silicon designer S3 has created what it claims is the world’s smallest analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) chip for
Rolls-Royce has confirmed that they are designing enormous cargo ships that would be completely unmanned. The design and implementation of
About two weeks ago, 180 mostly fourth-level PhD graduates crowded into a hall at University College Dublin (UCD) to take
SFI and Pfizer are pleased to announce a webinar to present the SFI-Pfizer Biotherapeutics Innovation Award Programme 2014 The SFI-Pfizer
A revolutionary chip designed by Dublin company Movidius lies at the heart of Google’s ‘Project Tango’ smartphone, a 3D-sensing device
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