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Marine biologists team up with tiger sharks to help discover the world’s largest seagrass ecosystem
Today one of the biggest marine discoveries of the last decade is being announced: the largest seagrass ecosystem in the world, an area in The Bahamas estimated to be up to 92,000 km2. Published in the scientific journal Nature Communications, the study details a unique partnership with tiger sharks that played a key role in mapping and ultimately validating the main findings.
1 Nov 2022
Environment|Research|Science
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Trinity physicist to lead €2.9 million Quantum Technologies Flagship project
Professor Mark Mitchison has won an EU Quantum Technologies Flagship research grant worth €2.9 million. He will lead a team of researchers seeking to understand nature’s timekeeping limitations and querying whether precision measurements can be more energy efficient.
1 Nov 2022
Awards and Funding|Research|Science
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Support & Befriending service reduces health decline in older people
New research funded by the Health Research Board and ALONE, and hosted by the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN), shows that support and befriending services for older people can reduce health decline.
28 Oct 2022
Health|Research
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Seán Hewitt awarded 2022 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
The Rooney Prize, awarded annually since 1976, celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40 years of age. It is administered by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre for Creative Writing in the School of English.
27 Oct 2022
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Concerning 20-year knowledge gap on young adult brain health
Researchers at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) at Trinity College have highlighted a stark knowledge gap on brain health spanning 20 years in young adults, in an editorial recently published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
27 Oct 2022
Health|Research
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Several beautiful new bird species found on remote Indonesian islands
Zoologists from Trinity, working with a research team in Indonesia, have found several new species of colourful, tropical sunbirds. The zoologists have identified a new species, the “Wakatobi Sunbird” (Cinnyris infrenatus), which lives on the tiny Wakatobi Islands in central Indonesia. They also examined the more widespread Olive-backed Sunbirds and Black Sunbirds, and found that individuals named as such actually belonged to multiple unrecognised species.
25 Oct 2022
Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability
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Trinity offers a sneak-peak at the sweet spot for innovation at the SUGAR Global Kick Off 2022/23
Innovation thought leaders will unveil the secrets behind innovating so that companies can take their products and services to the next level, and outline how to effectively engage in collaborative innovation at the SUGAR Global Kick Off 2022/23, which is this week hosted by Trinity.
24 Oct 2022
Business|Innovation|Research|Students
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ProMotion Rewards secures €725,000 pre-seed investment
Pharmacy graduates and former Tangent LaunchBox winners (2020), Bidemi Afolabi and Lauren O’Reilly created ProMotion Rewards to help brands understand consumer behaviours.
24 Oct 2022
Awards and Funding|Business|Innovation|Students
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Medical device regulation challenges put children's surgeries at risk
Research led by Trinity College has found that a regulation which came into effect in May 2021 with the aim of improving the oversight of medical devices in Ireland is leading to unintended consequences which may put some surgeries for children, and the treatment of rare diseases, at risk. The study has been published in the journal Pediatric Cardiology.
20 Oct 2022
Health|Research
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Speak of the Devil! The enduring appeal of the demonic in politics and culture
From biblical times to contemporary US Christian nationalist movement and Japanese computer games – international experts will gather in Trinity this week to share their research on the numerous and complex ways in which demons continue to live with and influence us today.
20 Oct 2022
Research