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• Optical fibre pioneer to speak in Dublin tomorrow 21.05.2012

  Australian entrepreneur and academic Dr Simon Poole will be at Dublin City University tomorrow to give a lecture about his 30-year experience in the area of photonics and start-ups.

• Solar eclipse creates ‘ring of fire’ treat for stargazers 21.05.2012

  Millions of stargazers in eastern Asia, the north Pacific and in western US states had a cosmic treat on Sunday as a result of the annual eclipse of the sun.

• French nanoscientist to speak in Dublin about gender and science 18.05.2012

  Anne Pépin from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France will be giving a free lecture in Dublin on Monday at the Alliance Française about gender and science.

• Welsh town Monmouth to be world’s first ‘Wikipedia town’ 18.05.2012

  From being the birthplace of King Henry V in 1387 to being a tech innovation hub for Wikipedia in 2012, the small town of Monmouth in Wales is set to become the world’s first Wikipedia town.

• Neurosurgeons create robotic arm brainwaves can control (video) 17.05.2012

  A team of neuroscientists in the US have been carrying out clinical trials known as BrainGate. They’ve been working on a robotic arm for people who are unable to move their limbs so they can use and grasp objects using only the power of their minds.

• Campaign to name new Dublin City bridge after Nobel physicist Ernest Walton 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 physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 along with John Cockcroft.

• Nanoscientists aim to shake up future of electronic devices 16.05.2012

  Nanoscientists in Ireland have been carrying out research to develop materials that, they claim, could in time revolutionise the manufacture of silicon chips and lead to a new wave of next-generation computers and real-time 3D video processing.

• Canadian investors lead funding round in InfiniLED; eight jobs on way 16.05.2012

  InfiniLED, a LED-tech spin-out from Tyndall National Institute in Cork, has closed a first-round investment, which may reach €1.6m. IL Investment Group from Quebec in Canada led the round.

• Online atlas marks Ireland's scientific and engineering treasures 16.05.2012

  Ireland's seven scientific and engineering wonders are being celebrated in a new interactive online map of the island. Did you know, for instance, that Ireland hosts some of the world's oldest fossil footprints on Valentia Island or that the great telescope at Birr was the largest on the planet for more than 70 years?

• Soyuz astronauts blast off for International Space Station 15.05.2012

  Two Russians and one American are aboard the Soyuz spacecraft that successfully launched this morning to head to the International Space Station (ISS).

• Microbiology lecturer at UL gets €75,000 Marie Curie Fellowship 15.05.2012

  Dr Achim Schmalenberger, a lecturer in microbiology at University of Limerick (UL), has been awarded a €75,000 Marie Curie grant by the European Commission to take his soil microbiology research to the next level.

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