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Irish scientists unlock nature’s 500-million-year-old colour secrets with nano-tech breakthrough

Half a billion years ago nature evolved a remarkable trick: generating vibrant, shimmering colours via intricate, microscopic structures in feathers, wings and shells that reflect light in precise ways. Now, researchers from Trinity have taken a major step forward in harnessing it for advanced materials science.

30 Jul 2025

Health|Innovation|Research|Science

Seeing the unseen: Trinity team builds game-changing particle impact machine

The new machine, the first of its kind in Europe, allows users to visualise what happens when tiny particles hit a surface three times faster than a bullet. This information will enable engineers to make better materials and coatings for aircraft parts, medical implants, and help to simulate intergalactic collisions.

24 Jul 2025

Innovation|Research|Science

Trinity researchers receive €500,000 to develop AI platform to help teachers

The €500,000 funding was granted under Enterprise Ireland’s Commercialisation Fund, which supports third-level researchers to translate their research into innovative and commercially viable products, services and companies.

23 Jun 2025

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Science

Trinity PhD candidate wins 2025 EU 3-Minute Thesis competition

With her presentation, called "Triggering Healing: Materials that outsmart Brain Cancer", Almudena had emerged victorious from the final of Trinity's internal 3MT competition, which took place in March.

12 Jun 2025

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Students

Trinity Innovation and Enterprise collaborates on South African region project

Trinity is one of three European universities partnering on the UNIICo-create project, which is tackling graduate unemployment in the Southern African Development Community region.

30 May 2025

Community|Innovation

Sandbox AQ scholarship students represent Trinity at NYU-Abu Dhabi Hackathon

Gaurang Belekar and Sara Taha from the MSc in Quantum Science and Technology in Trinity’s School of Physics took part in the 13th annual NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Hackathon for Social Good, where Gaurang’s team won 2nd prize for canQr, a quantum tool to optimise cancer drug design.

19 May 2025

Innovation|Research|Science|Students

‘MAGIC-I’ hopes to optimise treatment of child and adolescent cancer

Prof. Owen Smith hopes MAGIC-I project will lead to every child and adolescent with cancer in Ireland receiving deep genome analysis to determine best way to manage their illness

5 May 2025

Health|Innovation|Research

Primary students showcase the future of smart cities at Trinity

The Academy of the Near Future is proud to announce the inaugural Connective Detective Exhibition, taking place on 9–10 May in Trinity.

16 Apr 2025

Community|Innovation|Students

Trinity marks life-long learning milestone as 1,000 complete micro-credentials

"It has re-ignited my appetite for lifelong learning. I am currently on my third microcred.”

14 Apr 2025

Business|Innovation|Students

Applications for the 2025 EdTech Accelerator Programme are now open

EdTech technology start-ups are being urged to apply to the second year of the successful EdTech Accelerator Programme run by The Learnovate Centre and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

2 Apr 2025

Business|Innovation