Today, the European Parliament played host to the 36 kids, including 26 kids from a range of counties and cities in Ireland, as well as Spain, the UK, Slovenia and the Netherlands, who were keen to show how an idea born in Cork two years ago could help to solve the shortage of coding talent [...]
Six-feet tall ‘Rex’ – short for robotic exoskeleton – has been built by scientists in the UK for a Channel 4 documentary about how far technology has come, featuring psychologist Bertolt Meyer, who has a bionic hand himself. Research and work on prosthetic limbs and organs have developed to such an extent that scientists may [...]
Daniels has a particular interest in harnessing plasma – a highly charged state of gas – for clinical and semi-conductor applications, and he wears many professional hats, including being executive director of the National Centre for Plasma Science and Technology and a senior lecturer in the School of Electronic Engineering at Dublin City University (DCU). [...]
The EU Commission has committed €1bn to the Graphene Flagship project, making it one of the largest ever research projects funded in the history of the EU. CRANN, which is based at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), is to play a leading role in the project, which will involve 126 academics and industry groups from 17 [...]
Today, the Government announced that SFI is to invest €60m in 85 research projects that have the scope to have a positive impact for Ireland, both economically and socially. One of the recipients of this round of funding is Prof Stephen O’Brien, the director of the Mathematics Application Consortium for Science and Industry (MACSI) at [...]
“A central part of this Government’s plan for jobs and growth is to ensure that this research is better targeted at turning the good ideas of researchers into good products and good jobs. That is why we have implemented a series of reforming measures as part of Action Plan for Jobs 2012,” said Minister for [...]
BioAtlantis will lead a consortium of EU firms and universities in the two-year Thrive-Rite project, with the aim of validating four natural alternatives to the use of in-feed growth promoting antibiotics. If the research proves successful it is hoped that this will reduce the incidence of diseases such as salmonella and E.coli. The project has [...]
Prof Peter Humphries from the Smurfit Institute of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin has been awarded the grant for his project that will look to explore and develop new avenues for preventing glaucoma. Meanwhile, Prof Robert Kitchin from NUI Maynooth’s National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis has been awarded a €2.3m ERC grant to [...]
Simon Wardley, a researcher at the Leading Edge Forum in London, and voted one of the UK’s Top 50 Most Influential People in IT in ComputerWeekly‘s 2011 and 2012 polls, says we need to approach the hype around big data and open data with both an open mind and a healthy dose of caution. Big [...]
The private start-up is set to reveal its plans for asteroid mining during a press conference at the Santa Monica Museum of Flying in California at 1pm EST (6pm GMT) today. The announcement from Deep Space Industries will also be streamed live via YouTube. Prior to today’s announcement regarding its plans, the company has issued [...]
