Science in the News
AILO fosters next generation of Irish computational linguists
01 February 2012
Silicon Republic
Some 700 Irish students will this week explore the languages of the world as the 2012 edition of the Centre for Next Generation Localisation’s All-Ireland L...
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Lero gets €22.4m funding boost
30 January 2012
The Irish Times
The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre based at the University of Limerick is to receive €22.4 million in funding over the next five years, it was co...
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Aiming to take Ireland higher up the curve
27 January 2012
The Irish Times - Dick Ahlstrom
The new director general of Science Foundation Ireland wants to see creative partnerships, more impact for Irish research and changed mindset...
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Government approves drafting of bill to extend SFI’s remit
25 January 2012
Silicon Republic
The Government has approved the drafting of a bill to extend the remit of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) to include the funding of applied research in order to...
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Vaccine can kill cancer cells
20 December 2011
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have developed a promising vaccine that can kill cancer cells. The method has been patented, and the researchers hope to test it in humans in
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Morning Ireland RTE SFI has built a community of 3,000 researchers
20 December 2011
Morning Ireland Business News RTE Radio 1 - 20/12/2011 (7.50 Bulletin)
Dr Graham Love, Director General, SFI talks to Emma McNamara. SFI has now been around for about e...
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Physicists focus in on Higgs boson – the so called ‘God particle’
14 December 2011
UCD News
Two experimental physics groups at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research - the world's leading laboratory for particle physics - have reported significant ...
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Protein shows reaction to breast cancer drug
13 December 2011
The Irish Times, Health briefing by Claire O’Connell
MEASURING LEVELS of a particular protein in breast tumour tissue could ultimately help some early stage breast cancer pa...
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2012 Scratch Competition launched
12 December 2011
Silicon Republic
The 2012 Scratch competition has launched, which encourages primary and secondary school students to get involved with computing and software development.
R...
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RTE Six- One: Irish-Based Researchers Create World's First 3D Surface Anatomy Guide
09 December 2011
The world’s first 3D surface anatomy guide for medical and physiotherapy students, surgical trainees and artists has been developed in Ireland through a unique collaboration ...
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Clever computing for better wind forecasts
02 December 2011
Weather forecasting is a number-crunching affair: under the watchful eyes of meteorologists, data from weather stations around Ireland get digested by massively powerful computers ...
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RTE Six-One News
01 December 2011
RTE Six-One News
Dr. Graham Love, Director General, SFI, welcomes EC investment of €80 billion in research & innovation.
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ICT project gets €4.8m for virtual reality neurological research
29 November 2011
Silicon Republic - 29.11.2011
A Trinity College Dublin-led neurological research project called VERVE, with partners from France, the UK, Italy, Spain and Germany, has been given...
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Scientists make the 'perfect' foam
28 November 2011
Posted on behalf of Philip Ball - November 28, 2011
Physicists working at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, have finally made the perfect foam. Whereas most Dubliners might cons...
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Futureproof: The science of mummification
28 November 2011
Futureproof, Newstalk
Saturdays show spoke with Bob Brier about mummification in Ancient Egypt.
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Getting ahead of the curve in online security
23 November 2011
If you have ever paid for something online with your credit card, you have probably wondered whether prying eyes could view your precious account information as you sent it into th...
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Scibernia special episode: SFI's 2011 think-in
23 November 2011
Scibernia
Science Foundation Ireland‘s annual summit took place last Monday and Tuesday, November 15-16, with over 300 researchers attending the think-in. The theme of this ...
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Futureproof - Your Brain on Drugs
21 November 2011
Futureproof, Newstalk
This week, FutureProof talks to Dr. Maura Grealy – a researcher in the Department of Pharmacology at NUI, Galway. Maura will be telling us a...
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Dr.Graham Love, SFI, interview on Coleman at Large, Newstalk
16 November 2011
Dr Graham Love, Director General, SFI interview on Coleman at Large on Newstalk on Wednesday 16th November 2011.
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FutureProof: Marcus Chown on the Big Bang
16 November 2011
FutureProof, Newstalk
On this Saturday’s show, Futureproof talked will to Marcus Chown about the first moments of the universe. Marcus will explain the incredible...
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