Can the World Really Set Aside Half of the Planet for Wildlife?

Can the World Really Set Aside Half of the Planet for Wildlife?

The eminent evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson has an audacious vision for saving Earth from a cataclysmic extinction event

Winter of 2013/2014 stormiest in 143 years, Maynooth University research shows

Maynooth University

Climatologists at Maynooth University have identified the winter of 2013/2014 as the stormiest in 143 year record for Ireland and the UK.

The research carried out by Dr Tom Matthews, Dr Conor Murphy and Shaun Harrigan from Maynooth University Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units (ICARUS), together with Prof.Rob Wilby of Loughborough University (UK), used long-running atmospheric datasets to characterise winter storminess over the North Atlantic for the last 66 years and as far back as winter 1871-1872 for Ireland and the UK.

Clear material on windows harvests solar energy

Clear material on windows harvests solar energy - Futurity

A new type of “transparent” solar concentrator can be used on windows or
mobile devices to harvest solar energy without obscuring the view.

Biomathematics: the great frontier of the 21st century?

Biomathematics: the great frontier of the 21st century?

Biological systems are hugely complex, but simple mathematical models can isolate and elucidate key elements and processes and predict crucial aspects of behaviour. Many problems in biology have been solved using mathematics already developed in other areas – network analysis, group theory, differential equations, probability, chaos theory and combinatorics – but completely new mathematical techniques may be required to solve some tough problems in the life sciences.

HEA publishes Consultation Paper

HEA publishes Consultation Paper: Towards the development of a new National Plan for Equity of Access to Higher Education | Higher Education Authority



The paper is intended to support a wide consultation process on the development of the new National Plan for Equity of Access to Higher Education.  It has been drafted with the objective of encouraging openness, raising questions and generating ideas.  The aim is that it will stimulate thinking and bring together the combined wisdom and perspectives of all stakeholders in framing the next National Access Plan.

Fields Medal mathematics prize won by woman for first time in its history

Fields Medal mathematics prize won by woman for first time in its history



Maryam Mirzakhani,
an Iranian maths professor at Stanford University in California, was
named the first female winner of the Fields Medal – often described as
the Nobel prize for mathematics – at a ceremony in Seoul .

GMIT still ‘considering’ action over plagiarism

GMIT still ‘considering’ action over plagiarism

Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) is still “considering possible disciplinary action”, following a protracted external investigation into complaints of alleged plagiarism at the college