Mobile devices and video games may soon be powered by residue from forests, science researchers at the University of Limerick have discovered.

SCIENTISTS from the National University of Ireland, Galway, are leading one of the world’s largest studies into how microscopic marine plants might affect the earth’s climate, it emerged yesterday.

Victor F Weisskopf, an acclaimed physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb and later advocated arms control, has died at the age of 93.

Professor John Hegarty has been elected provost of Trinity College in Dublin.