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UCD and Met Éireann launch new centre for AI for weather and climate services, Innovation and research 01Oct
UCD and Met Éireann launch new centre for AI for weather and climate services, Innovation and research

The AIMSIR centre, established by a partnership between UCD and the National Meteorological Service, will strengthen Ireland’s preparedness for changing weather and climate.
AI2Peat wins National Challenge Fund prize under Future Digital Challenge 01Oct
AI2Peat wins National Challenge Fund prize under Future Digital Challenge

Minister Lawless has announced over €2.5M in prize funding for the first National Challenge Fund prize winners.
Astronomers discover cosmic explosion unlike any other ever seen before 01Oct
Astronomers discover cosmic explosion unlike any other ever seen before

Mysterious repeating gamma-ray bursts were spotted outside our own galaxy using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), co-led by Dr Antonio Martin-Carrillo, Ad Astra fellow and Assistant Professor in UCD School of Physics.
Study explores children\'s experiences of transition from primary to post-primary schooling 01Oct
Study explores children's experiences of transition from primary to post-primary schooling

The ninth report from the Children’s School Lives study showcases experiences directly from children and significant adults in their lives about their journey from sixth class to the first months of Year 1 in post-primary education.
High flier taking UCD towards the stars 30Sep
High flier taking UCD towards the stars

Prof Kate Robson Brown, VP for Research, Innovation and impact is on a mission to help Ireland gain a place among the leading space science nations and for UCD, the nation’s top space university, to drive that ambition. Interview with Sean Duke.

Ireland’s first satellite EIRSAT-1 completes its mission 30Sep
Ireland’s first satellite EIRSAT-1 completes its mission

Ireland’s first satellite, built and launched by UCD students and faculty, has completed its two-year mission orbiting the Earth. The trailblazing project has made Ireland a space-faring nation.
Evolution: Two small steps for human bipedalism 30Sep
Evolution: Two small steps for human bipedalism

The upper part of the human pelvis, known as the ilium, underwent two major structural innovations during evolution that enabled humans to walk on two legs, a Nature paper reveals.

EIRSAT-1 novel control payload successfully demonstrates advanced satellite pointing in space 30Sep
EIRSAT-1 novel control payload successfully demonstrates advanced satellite pointing in space

Breakthrough Wave-Based Control platform designed by team at UCD School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering a leap forward for CubeSat missions.

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