The Mallow Science and Maths Fair on 16 October promises to be an action-packed fun day for all the family. Attractions on the day will include: Chemistry magic show Planetarium Live demonstrations and interactive displays Stars and planets show Superheroes talk Who wants to be a maths millionaire Balloon rocket ...
At the Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe lecture on 12 September in Trinity College Dublin, the world record supernova hunter, Tom Boles, will explain how certain types of exploding stars – supernovae – allow us to measure how far away they are by monitoring their brightness. Thanks to these, ...
The Physics teachers annual conference, Frontiers of Physics 2011, will take place on Saturday 24 September 2011 in Department of Life and Physical Sciences, GMIT Galway The conference is a day of lectures, demonstrations and workshops for teachers of physics The objectives of the conference are to: Inform teachers of ...
This month’s First Friday at the Blackrock Castle Observatory (BCO) in Cork is going to be a fundraising drive for the Concern Horn of Africa Appeal. To help everyone get into the charitable and Fiesta spirit, the Castle Café will be offering Paella and a glass of Rioja for only ...
The Future of Planet Hunting: How the Next Generation of Exoplanet Surveys Will Find Us a New Earth 563 planets around other stars are known to exist. Only a tiny percentage of our galaxy has been searched for new planets, so it is likely that the Milky Way contains millions of exosolar ...
Winning research by students from NUI Maynooth
Calling all Irish science bloggers, podcasters, twitter addicts and online science fans. Dublin City of Science 2012 is organising the first #dub2012 tweet-up /meet-up event at the Science Gallery Cafe in Dublin on Friday 24 June at 6pm. It will look at how Dublin City of Science can support the ...
Students from 19 secondary schools compete at Trinity College Dublin’s School of Chemistry
Game-Based Learning (GBL) is a fascinating medium which has the potential to increase both motivation and learning on the part of the learners. GBL has captured the interest of researchers, and some educators have already started to embrace this technology. Although there is a solid body of evidence on the educational effectiveness ...
Free workshop in the Netherlands for science teachers
