For 21-year-old Shauntelle Tynan, exercise isn’t simply a task to pencil in as a New Year’s resolution or an excuse to search out eye-candy in the gym as it is for so many of us. As a cancer survivor from …
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Unpacking the Coronavirus
Sam Cox addresses the background, biology and basis of the Coronavirus epidemic
The Coronavirus isn’t named after a beer or the band, but is likening to a crown from the latin corōna a “garland worn on the head as a mark of honour or emblem of majesty, halo around a celestial body, …
How bats fight poverty in Mexico
Like mangos and pitaya? You’d better start liking bats too
What is there to like about bats? Not a lot, one would think, as fears of diseased, night-flying, hairy blood-drinkers come to mind. We slap them on Halloween decorations with reckless abandon and no horror movie would be complete without …
Trinity-led Beyond 2022 project receives €2.5m in government funding
700 years of historical records destroyed by fire at the Four Courts will be digitally recreated
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar announced €2.5 million in government funding today for a Trinity-led project digitally recreating 700 years of historical records of the Public Record Office of Ireland, which were destroyed by fire at the Four Courts at the beginning …
Periodic table lights up the Berkeley
Trinity celebrates Chemistry Week
If you were unfortunate enough to be glued to your chair in Berkeley library last Thursday evening, like so many of us, you may have spotted an unusual occurrence. Facing out of the window, a faint light sparkled on the …
The science of vaping
Adequate nicotine replacement therapy or the gateway to a worldwide health epidemic?
Vaping is viewed globally as a viable and safe alternative to traditional smoking, but this idea is beginning to come under fire with connected cases of respiratory diseases on the rise. 1604 cases of lung injury associated with e-cigarette usage …
Revolutionizing how we brew beer
Trinity scientists are attempting to create new beer and wine flavours using genetics.
If you are like me, you probably order the same pint of beer almost anywhere you go. You become accustomed to the taste of a particular lager you fancy, even though they often have largely the same taste. In some …
Andrew Smyth on the Great British Bake Off
An interview with the baker and aerospace engineer
Great British Bake Off finalist, Andrew Smyth, captured many a heart back in the 2016 Bake Off tent. Now the aerospace engineer is set to take Ireland by storm with his series of Baking in Space shows, which fuse his …
Transhumanism: surpassing mortality
An interview with Trinity graduate and author Mark O’Connell
The first Rooney Prize to ever be awarded for a piece of nonfiction has gone to Mark O’Connell, who completed both his English and Philosophy undergraduate degree and English PhD at Trinity. O’Connell received the award for his book To …
Two Trinity researchers win prestigious SFI awards
Trinity professors Lydia Lynch and Danny Kelly were awarded for their impact on Irish science research
Trinity professors Lydia Lynch and Danny Kelly were announced yesterday as winners of the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) 2019 Science Awards for their impact on Irish science research.
Prof Lynch, of the school of biochemistry and immunology, won an SFI …