Categorised as: Science & News
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CERN gives LHC an energy lift as part of Higgs boson quest News
14.02.2012 Scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, have announced they are going to run the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with a beam of energy of 4 TeV this year... -
EcoNav transport research receives €2.35m EU funding News
14.02.2012 The Centre for Transport Research and Innovation for People (TRIP) at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) is playing a major role in an EU sustainable travel research project called... -
NASA pioneers 3D earthquake mapping with geologists News
13.02.2012 Geologists have come up with a new 3D tool that studies how earthquakes change landscapes, paving the way for scientists to have more insight into how earthquakes behave. The... -
CPA calls for ‘National Entrepreneurship Strategy’ News
13.02.2012 In light of the Action Plan for Jobs 2012 revealed today by the Irish Government, the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland (CPA) is calling for what it’s terming... -
Patient Journey Record taps into global health-tech demand News
12.02.2012 Our Tech Start-Up of the Week is Patient Journey Record (PaJR), a new Irish health-tech venture that’s developing a cloud-based hospital re-admissions platform, with the aim of... -
Feast your senses at Science Gallery’s Edible exhibition News
10.02.2012 Science Gallery in Dublin is venturing into food territory. The gallery has unleashed its latest exhibition, Edible, which is all about intersecting science with food and art.... -
Students get awards for inventive STEM projects News
10.02.2012 Students from more than 20 Irish schools have been awarded medals for their projects in the areas of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) at the CREST Awards. The...Categories: Science, R&D, Life Sciences, Graduate, Government, Engineering, Engineer, Education, Economy, AppsTags: Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths, STEM, Scientists, Europe, Innovation -
Abbott investing €85m in Sligo facility, to create 325 jobs News
09.02.2012 Healthcare company Abbott will invest €85m into expanding its Sligo pharmaceutical manufacturing facility, which will create about 175 highly skilled jobs and 150 temporary... -
Clean-tech Finance Bill changes welcomed by Green IFSC News
09.02.2012 The clean-tech tax changes to the Finance Bill have been welcomed by the Green IFSC, which says Ireland’s Government is likely the first in the world to recognise forest carbon...Categories: Sustainability, Software, Science, Renewable Energy, R&D, Private Irish Business, Investments, Green Tech, Green Computing, Green, Government, Funding, Financial, Energy, Economy -
'Science could save Europe’s economy' – Geoghegan-Quinn News
09.02.2012 Science "forms and informs our path to economic recovery”. That’s according to EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, who was in Ireland...Categories: Sustainability, R&D, Intellectual Property, Government, Education, Economy, Investments, Life Sciences, Science -
Dublin to host international Science Hack Day 2012 News
08.02.2012 Dublin is gearing up to be the sixth city in the world to host an international Science Hack Day after London, San Francisco, Mexico City, Cincinnati and Cape Town. Running from...Categories: Science, R&D, Legal Eagle, Internet, Intellectual Property, Green Tech, Green Computing, Green, Games/Entertainment, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Economy, Digital Media -
Institutes of technology to get technological university status? News
08.02.2012 Sources in the Higher Education Authority (HEA) have confirmed reports circulating that the process of setting up a technological university in the southeast, and potentially in...Categories: Science, R&D, Life Sciences, Intellectual Property, Graduate, Government, Engineer, Education, Economy, Careers and Employment -
New interactive lab highlights pharma energy efficiency News
07.02.2012 Ireland has a new energy-efficient lab for academics and pharmaceutical companies to dabble with. Waldner Ireland is behind the lab, which aims to show scientists and academics...Categories: Economy, Careers and Employment, Energy, Engineer, Financial, Funding, Global CIO, Government, Investments, Life Sciences, R&D, Science, Sustainability -
Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin talks science education (video) News
06.02.2012 Today TV personality and science teacher Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin awarded post-primary school students for winning the all-island story writing competition, Tell The Future,...Categories: Education, Sustainability, Science, Renewable Energy, Recycling Services, R&D, Life Sciences, Graduate, Government, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Economy, CompetitionsTags: Clean Tech, Biomass, Science Foundation Ireland, SFI, Innovation, Science, Ireland, EU, Dublin -
Google X Labs: HUD shades and taking pictures of mind’s eye News
07.02.2012 What is the big mystery technology that Google’s X Labs is working on? Well, it’s a number of things that include sunglasses that include heads-up display (HUD) information and...Categories: Wireless Communications, Search, Science, Research, R&D, Phones, Operating Systems, Internet, Hardware, Green Tech, Education, Digital Media, Computers, Apps -
India takes the global clean tech lead News
06.02.2012 India is now outpacing the rest of the globe in terms of its clean-tech investments, that’s according to a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. And the reason for...Categories: Financial, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Government, Intellectual Property, Investments, R&D, Renewable Energy, Science, Sustainability -
New NI start-up spins out of NISP Springboard programme News
03.02.2012 Northern Ireland start-up Thermblow, a spin-out of the Polymer Research Cluster at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), has become the latest graduate from the NISP CONNECT... -
James Dyson Award calls out to young innovators News
02.02.2012 The 2012 James Dyson Award is now inviting applications from inventive young designers and engineers, hailing from 18 countries, including Ireland. And the brief? You’ve got to...Categories: Science, R&D, Life Sciences, Investments, Intellectual Property, Engineering, Engineer, Education, Design, Careers and Employment, Energy -
NASA spacecraft returns video from far side of moon News
02.02.2012 A camera aboard one of NASA's twin lunar spacecraft has beamed back its first unique view of the far side of the moon. -
Irish teacher scoops global Microsoft educator award News
14.11.2011 Doreen McHale, a teacher at St Philomena’s Primary School in Bray, Co Wicklow, has won second place in the Microsoft 2011 Global Forum Educator Awards’ ‘Extending Learning...Categories: Sustainability, Social Media, Science, Green Tech, Green Computing, Government, Education, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers