Tagged: Physics
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CERN admits anomaly in neutrino speed of light claims News
08.06.2012 CERN captured people’s attention last September when it suggested that neutrino beams sent from its Geneva lab 730km away to Italy’s INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory could have... -
Cliffs of Moher seismometer picks up Mayo earthquake News
06.06.2012 This morning’s magnitude 4 earthquake off Ireland’s Co Mayo coastline was picked up by the newly installed seisometer on Cliffs of Moher in Co Clare. The tremor was recorded at...Categories: Science, Engineering -
Leaving Cert looms, online supports for students and parents News
01.06.2012 The Leaving Cert is starting next Wednesday, so we check out some online resources that might come in handy for parents and students, both study-wise and health-wise. -
Robert Moog 'electrified' in Google Doodle today News
23.05.2012 New Yorker Robert Moog is today’s vibrant Google Doodle subject on what would be the 78th birthday of the American pioneer of electronic music. He is best known as being the...Categories: Search Engines, Science, Multimedia, Games/Entertainment, Engineering, Engineer, Digital Media -
Campaign to name new Dublin City bridge after Nobel physicist Ernest Walton News
17.05.2012 What better way to celebrate Dublin’s 2012 tenure as European City of Science than to name the new Marlborough Street bridge in the capital city after Ernest Walton, the Irish...Tags: Education, Government, Knowledge Economy, Science, Atom, Physics, Maths, STEM, TCD, Dublin City Council, Transport, Engineering -
Prominent physicists to share insights at free Dublin event News
01.05.2012 The Institute of Physics in Ireland is hosting a free Physics High Flyers event this Saturday in Dublin. Five eminent physicists, including Nobel Prize winner Prof Jerome... -
World Intellectual Property Day: celebrating Irish innovators News
26.04.2012 Today is World Intellectual Property Day, a day that’s always celebrated on 26 April. Here we look at some of the scientific breakthroughs Irish pioneers have brought to the world.Categories: Sustainability, Science, Research, R&D, Life Sciences, Intellectual Property, Green Tech, Green, Engineering, Engineer, Energy -
Scientists create first-ever working quantum network News
12.04.2012 A group of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany say they have built the world’s first elementary quantum network based on interfaces between...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Science, R&D, Mobility, Internet, Intellectual Property, Engineer, Energy, Consumer Tech -
Science, God and Einstein to feature in Nobel Laureate lecture at DCU News
28.03.2012 William Philips who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997 will deliver two stimulating lectures tomorrow at DCU. The first will focus on ‘Time, Einstein and the Coolest Stuff... -
University digitises Einstein archives via new website News
20.03.2012 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has revamped its Albert Einstein online collection to digitally showcase never-before-seen documents from the theoretical physicist and...Categories: Web, Science, Multimedia, Life Sciences, Internet, Intellectual Property, Engineering, Energy, Document Management, Digital Business, Consumer Tech -
Irish inventions that changed the way we live (infographic) News
17.03.2012 Ireland is more than the just the place where Guinness comes from. It's the home of innovations that have changed the world, as illustrated by the following infographic from... -
Today is anniversary of Einstein’s birth and Pi Day News
14.03.2012 Today would have been the 133rd birthday of the German-born theoretical physicist and mathematician Albert Einstein. It’s also Pi Day, when the mathematical constant π is... -
Scientists reveal hints of Higgs Boson from Tevatron data News
07.03.2012 Scientists at Fermilab, the US laboratory dedicated to high-energy physics, say they may have finally pinpointed the elusive Higgs Boson particle. The scientists had been... -
Irish firm Havok to exhibit at Game Developer’s Conference News
05.03.2012 Irish games technology company Havok will have a stand at this week’s Game Developer’s Conference at the Moscone Centre in San Francisco. It also announced it provided its...Tags: Dublin, Havok, Middleware, Development, Physics, Animation, Video Games, Gaming, PlayStation Vita -
IBM captures image of electric charge in motion News
28.02.2012 IBM appears to have broken major nanophysics ground, as scientists from an IBM Research group in Zurich have captured what is being hailed as the first-ever image of charge... -
Google Doodle applauds physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz News
22.02.2012 An animated Google Doodle is cutting a colourful dash on Google's homepage today to celebrate what would have been the 155th birthday of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, the physicist who... -
Ireland reveals rich scientific history News
07.11.2011 Robert Boyle, Ernest Walton, William Rowan Hamilton, Ellen Hutchins and Cynthia Evelyn Longfield are some of the many scientists who shaped Irish history and marked the path...Tags: Science November, Scientists, Ireland, Chemistry, Medical, Astronomy, Physics, Engineering, Computer science, IT, Mathematics, -
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... -
BT Young Scientist 2012 winners talk about their space project (video) News
16.01.2012 It was an energetic and celebratory affair at the RDS on Friday night when it was revealed that young Dubliners Mark Kelly and Eric Doyle had won the BT Young Scientist &... -
Ireland’s young scientists reveal their projects (video) News
20.01.2012 Last week at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, the atmosphere in the Royal Dublin Society was magnetised by the dynamic and novel ideas that were created from...Categories: Bio Tech, Computers, Education, Engineer, Engineering, Green Tech, Intellectual Property, Life Sciences, R&D, Science