Tagged: Chemistry
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Screening the marine for new chemistry News
17.05.2013 Dr Margaret Rae and colleagues on the Beaufort Marine Biodiscovery Project are looking to the sea in the hunt for clinically useful molecules. She tells Claire O'Connell about... -
Scientists pioneer graphene sensor to potentially improve air quality testing News
07.05.2013 Researchers at the Irish nanoscience institute CRANN have manufactured a new graphene-based sensor they believe could have future commercial applications in air quality control... -
Irish biopharma firm Opsona Therapeutics raises €33m to develop lead product News
29.04.2013 Opsona Therapeutics, an Irish drug development company that is pioneering new treatments for inflammatory diseases, has raised €33m in Series C financing that it will use to... -
Charging ahead with med tech News
28.01.2013 Dr Stephen Daniels has been recently recognised by Enterprise Ireland for his work in manufacturing, engineering and energy technology commercialisation. Claire O'Connell met...Tags: Medical Devices, Innovation, Chemistry, SFI, Entrepreneurship, Start-ups, MedTech, DCU, Semiconductor -
Kildare students to interact live with Nobel Prize winner via Aertv News
20.11.2012 Secondary school students from a school in Co Kildare will have the opportunity to tune in live to a lecture on climate change that will be presented by Prof Mario Molina, one... -
Nobel Laureate Prof Mario Molina to speak at DCU about climate change News
15.11.2012 Prof Mario Molina, a leading authority on pollution and its effects on the environment, will be in Dublin next week to give a lecture at Dublin City University (DCU) on the... -
Record number of students enter BT Young Scientist contest News
06.11.2012 BT has released figures about entries to the 2013 BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, which will take place in January in Dublin, with the contest having broken all... -
Two US scientists share Nobel chemistry prize News
10.10.2012 Two US scientists, Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka, have been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their studies of G-protein–coupled receptors that enable the... -
It adds up to jobs potential – 35pc surge in Leaving Cert students taking higher-level maths News
15.08.2012 There was a 35pc surge in the number of students taking higher-level maths in Ireland's Leaving Cert this year, resulting in many of them receiving 25 extra CAO bonus points....Categories: Upskilling, Software & Web Development, Software, R&D, Engineering, Education, Economy, Digital Media, Digital Business, Computers -
BT has €75K in financial aid for students entering Young Scientist contest News
20.07.2012 Teams and individual students entering the next BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, and who are based more than 70km away from the RDS in Dublin, can now apply for... -
Ireland celebrates 350th anniversary of Boyle’s Law with summer school News
12.07.2012 This year marks the 350th anniversary of the creation of Boyle’s Law by the Irish scientist Robert Boyle (1627-1691), often termed ‘the father of modern chemistry’. And to mark... -
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 -
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... -
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... -
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, -
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 -
NASA satellite debris plunges into Pacific; solar storms active News
26.09.2011 With mystery surrounding as to where exactly debris from a six-tonne decommissioned NASA satellite fell early on Saturday – the biggest crash of a NASA satellite since 1979 –... -
Intel rewards Ireland’s mini scientists News
06.12.2011 The grand finals of the Intel Mini Scientist 2011 have taken place at the Intel Ireland campus in Co Kildare, with the two overall winners being Hair Today, Heat Tomorrow, from...Categories: Science, Research, R&D, Government, Education, Economy, Careers and Employment, Bio TechTags: Research, Innovation, Chemistry, Physics, STEM, Ruairi Quinn, Entrepreneurship, Intel Ireland, Science,