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Waterford will play an important part in Europe’s agritech development after WIT was named as coordinator of the new €20m SmartAgriHubs project.

It appears as if Meath is in the midst of a golden age of archaeological discovery after the unearthing of a 5,500-year-old megalithic passage tomb at Dowth Hall.

Though missing out on the elusive win, the ‘scrappy Irish team’ of Éirloop was rewarded for its efforts with an innovation prize.

Irish energy tech firm UrbanVolt has signed a €55m funding deal with UK investment company Low Carbon in the biggest deal of its kind to date.

Loci Orthopaedics has raised €2.75m in funding for a new clinically proven solution to address the increasing unmet need for thumb base joint arthritis.

A team of engineering students that built the most efficient vehicle possible, the Geec, has come first in a competition for technical innovation.

Ireland’s first dedicated technological university was formally announced last month at Grangegorman in Dublin by An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, TD.

A breakthrough Irish study suggests that a popular method for deciding the colour of ancient dinosaurs might be totally wide of the mark.

The newest drugs emerging in the market for gene and cell therapy as well as disposables have become the focus area for U.S. bioprocessing firms, many of whom have been moving some production overseas -- particularly to Europe. But while single-use products have advantages in production costs and turnaround time, there are also some challenges for American biopharma companies in choosing their optimal overseas location.

Our cities are awash with hidden gold, quite literally, as a number of academic and institutional bodies unite for a new urban mining project.

A fungi-produced pigment used in woodwork for hundreds of years could, in fact, turn out to be an incredibly capable semiconducting material.

Universities of Sanctuary DCU and UL will offer a range of courses for refugees and asylum seekers in Ireland.

A new paediatric academic unit, the first of its kind in Ireland, has been unveiled at UCC and it promises to shape young children’s healthcare in the years to come.

The wondrous capabilities of CRISPR in editing out the Huntington’s gene for future generations won over the judges at this year’s Researchfest pitch event at Inspirefest.

One of Ireland’s most historic observatories has joined an illustrious list of famous sites thanks to the work of genius mathematician William Rowan Hamilton.

Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform Linked Finance has obtained €50m in backing from Portugal-based digital bank Banco BNI Europa. The digital bank will deploy up to €5m over a two-year period to lend to Irish SMEs.

Groupe Renault subsidiary RCI (Renault Crédit International) Bank and Services has made a strategic investment in iCabbi, a Dublin-based start-up behind an innovative taxi fleet dispatch platform.

The most powerful space telescopes on Earth have discovered traces of a common gas incredibly far into deep space, and that changes what we know about the Big Bang.
 

A team of neuroscientists has managed to find a way to transfer memories from one individual to another via injection, but only in snails so far.
 

Attempting to secure an organ or limb donation can be a challenging ordeal for a patient, but a major breakthrough could help get them an artificial one much quicker.