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Europe must grow its manufacturing sector to stay competitive - study News
20.05.2013 Europe must increase the size of its manufacturing sector and lead in energy efficiency, technology innovation and addressing the changing consumption patterns of consumers if... -
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... -
TCD Lero team in €2.5m study into how ecology can help make better software News
15.05.2013 A Trinity College Dublin-based Lero team is to take part in a €2.5m European Commission-funded research programme to find out how the principles of ecology can be adopted to... -
MRI scans to help researchers study impulsive behaviour in teenagers News
15.05.2013 Teenagers’ moodiness and impulsive behaviours may be all in the head – literally. Researchers at Cambridge University have begun to study whether changes in the brain’s... -
New web resource for firms to search R&D funding and advertise jobs News
14.05.2013 Ireland's Research and Innovation Minister Sean Sherlock, TD, has launched a new web resource targeted specifically at businesses to help them access information on R&D funding... -
Covidien funds non-profit to develop mobile tech for heart disease patients News
14.05.2013 Medical device firm Covidien is to fund non-profit Heartbeat Trust to support R&D into the use of mobile technology to allow remote monitoring of heart patients. -
Big data could mean big health cost savings and better outcomes News
14.05.2013 Picture a scenario where, by collecting the right data and using today’s sophisticated analytics, our health system could predict when a patient with chronic conditions might... -
Astronaut Chris Hadfield and crew members safely return to Earth News
14.05.2013 Astronaut Chris Hadfield and two of his crew members, flight engineers Tom Marshburn and Roman Romanenko, are back on terra firma today, after having returned safely to Earth... -
Samsung eyes 5G wireless by 2020 News
13.05.2013 Samsung Electronics says it has developed the world’s first adaptive array transceiver technology that forms the foundation of 5G mobile communications systems. -
Delivering the goods for new therapeutics News
10.05.2013 Getting therapeutics to their site of action in the body is a key step in successful treatment. Claire O’Connell talked to Prof Sally-Ann Cryan about her work to deliver the... -
Ireland must secure political agreement on new European research funding, argues Sherlock News
09.05.2013 Ireland must secure an EU-wide deal for research funding for the European Union’s new programme for research and innovation Horizon 2020 before the end of its term as President...Categories: Science, Research, R&D, Investments, Internet, Intellectual Property, Government, Education -
Film Welcome to the Machine reveals technology is what it means to be human News
09.05.2013 The impending arrival of filmmaker Avi Zev Weider’s triplets as a result of IVF inspired him to explore the nature of technology and what it means to be human in a new film,... -
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Irish researchers to lead Alzheimer’s drug trials News
07.05.2013 A group of Irish researchers is to lead an 18-month drug trial to test a possible new treatment for Alzheimer’s. They will be testing the blood pressure drug Nilvadipine in a... -
Think thin and flat for strong and energy-efficient materials News
03.05.2013 Ultra-thin materials could open the way for lighter electronics and more efficient batteries. Prof Valeria Nicolosi is on the case, looking at the thinnest materials in the... -
BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition celebrates big 5-0 News
02.05.2013 Ireland’s Taoiseach Enda Kenny, TD, is the first person to wish the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition a happy 50th birthday today, at the launch in Dublin of a... -
IBM Research uses atoms to make world’s smallest movie News
01.05.2013 Scientists from technology giant IBM have employed a two-tonne microscope to make a film with one of the tiniest elements in the universe, atoms. A Boy and His Atom is comprised... -
Ireland to grab spotlight at global software research showcase in California News
01.05.2013 Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, has been invited to present nine papers at a worldwide forum for professionals involved in all aspects of software... -
Wearable tech player Jawbone acquires BodyMedia for US$100m News
30.04.2013 Wearable tech and audio equipment maker Jawbone has acquired health technology player BodyMedia for an estimated US$100m. At the same time, Jawbone has unveiled its new UP... -
NASA releases stunning photos of massive storm on Saturn News
30.04.2013 The spinning vortex of a hurricane-like storm with an eye 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth has been captured over Saturn by US space agency NASA’s Cassini...