Tyndall National Institute is to shift its focus over the next five years to carry out research to address the world’s major societal challenges including energy and climate change.

An ambitious masterplan designed to encourage sustainable energy use in Cork aims to create local jobs, reduce energy use by more than one-third and increase the use of renewable energy by 53% in the next decade.

Conference “ambassadors” who helped generate €10m for Cork’s economy this year have been honoured amid renewed calls for delivery of the city’s long-awaited events centre.

Six projects overseen by Science Foundation Ireland will share a total of €25m to support new research infrastructure, ranging from self-driving vehicles, to ocean observation.

Photonics may not be a word in common parlance just yet, but its effects will soon impact upon numerous aspects of our everyday lives.

Richard Bruton, the Climate Action and Environment Minister, recently described the Government’s Climate Action Plan as “ambitious but realistic”.

The €4.7m European Union ASCENT programme, led by Tyndall National Institute, UCC, has reached the milestone of delivering 100 nanoelectronics projects to researchers from 30 countries over the last four years.

The SmartProbe needle can give women a cancer all-clear immediately, thus sparing them an anxious wait and reducing a test backlog clogged with benign results, says Health Correspondent Catherine Shanahan.

The Microelectronic Circuits Centre Ireland has increased research revenue from €7.5m in 2018 to €8.1m in 2019, its annual report shows.

MCCI’s world-class research into microelectronics may be difficult for most to understand, but if they knew just how relevant that research was to their own lives, they may be pleasantly surprised, writes Pádraig Hoare.

An Irish startup using virtual and augmented reality is providing training solutions for companies in high-risk industries.

Up to 100 new research posts will be created at Tyndall National Institute in Cork as part of a €20m investment into so-called "disruptive technologies".

Seven third-level education and research institutes in Cork, attended by some 48,000 staff and students, have united to call for better cycling infrastructure.

WHEN Capitol Records releases a new remix of the classic Beach Boys hit ‘Good Vibrations’ in the coming months, AudioSourceRE will be credited with the software that brought the original mono tracks into stereo.

Students and taxpayers might find it strange that University College Cork is paying €3,000 a month on rental accommodation for its president, a TD says.

More than 160 University College Cork employees earned average payouts of €3,400 for contributions to a campus tech firm that sold to a Facebook subsidiary.

University College Cork paid nearly €4.5m to 39 suppliers for goods and services in one year without going through proper procurement, new accounts have revealed.

Nuala Wolfe meets some of the people involved in solving our power needs as Ireland begins to move to a low-carbon economy.

The gulf in planned development between Cork and Kerry is highlighted by the number of mentions each county gets in both the national development plan (NDP) and the longer term Project Ireland 2040.

University College Cork is to re-advertise the top job at a leading research institute after an international recruitment exercise failed to fill the €180,000-a-year role.

The Government should focus on providing more secure, well-paid careers for researchers instead of approving “exorbitant” salaries to attract small numbers of leading figures to work here, a union has said.

From human campaigns for social change to nano-science that can revolutionise modern technology, a series of new images showcases the breadth of publicly funded Irish research.

The electrochemist and lecturer is one of only three Irish-based researchers overall to be awarded an ERC starting grant in 2017.

A University of Limerick (UL) researcher has been given €1.5m for pioneering work on generating clean energy through photosynthesis — the only Irish scientist granted by the European Research Council (ERC) in the physical science field this year.

Researchers are developing sensors to track how guide dogs react to potentially stressful situations, writes Helen O’Callaghan.

Irish researchers have developed a ‘smart’ electronic chip that will revolutionise how heart pacemakers are made, work, and fitted.

Irish innovators are set to boldly go where few have gone before as growing numbers get a chance to develop technologies bound for space.

Investigating the impact of escaped farmed salmon on wild Irish Atlantic salmon populations is one of five UCC projects which has been awarded €8.5m in Government funding today. A co-led project brings the UCC figure to €9.3m.

Revenues at Tyndall National Institute research centre remained largely flat last year at €31.6m despite a significant increase in industry funding.

Global computer giant Intel has renewed a $1.5m research partnership with the Tyndall National Institute, in Cork. They will develop the electronic devices of tomorrow.

The European Space Agency is set to double its Irish workforce, creating more than 1,000 space technology jobs over the next four years.

Irish researchers have made an electronics breakthrough which will help improve future space exploration missions.

Irish and Dutch researchers have developed the world’s first “smart dressing” set to revolutionise wound care.

Two of Ireland’s most successful businesswomen were last night honoured by their alma mater at the UCC Alumni Achievement Awards.

This year from November 9th to 20th, Cork Science Festival will deliver numerous workshops and shows to over 2,500 students in classrooms and venues all over Cork while over 5,000 are expected to visit the two day exhibition (Sat 14th & Sun 15th) at Cork City Hall. All this activity and excitement make Cork Science Festival one of the main partners of Science Week Ireland and one of the biggest events in the Irish science calendar.

A ’Secret Spectrum’ workshop took place in Skibbereen Library recently - and these kids from Gaelscoil Dr. Uí Shúilleabháin learned how to see colours in the light around them.

The Mayor of Shanghai said his city is open to forging new cultural, technological, and research links across Ireland following the success of his city’s twinning link with Cork.

Teenagers are being encouraged to tinker with technology as part of an initiative poised to sweep the world.