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Adapting to a changing climate: How can we build resilience?
Wednesday, 18 November 2020We must build resilience to a range of challenges, including that of climate change. Individuals play a critical role in our combined path to a resilient economy and society. Find out more in this blog by Dr Olga M...
New open access issue of Biology and Environment available online
Wednesday, 18 November 2020The issue, edited by Mary Kelly-Quinn, features a selection of papers originally presented at Ireland’s first National Biodiversity Conference, ‘New Horizons for Nature’, which was held in February 2019 and hosted by...
A colourful collaboration
Wednesday, 18 November 2020Library Blog post. The Royal Irish Academy Library recently collaborated with The Watercolour World, an online resource of watercolour paintings from before 1900.
Neville and Cameron: pioneers of life-saving sanitation
Monday, 16 November 2020In the second of our three-part series on public health and infectious disease, we consider life-saving developments in sanitation in Dublin through the biographies of Parke Neville (1812–86), civil engineer, architect...
A tasty snack or a source of enlightenment?
Friday, 13 November 2020In today's episode of Spreading the Words we explore some of the stories associated with the word Coll.
Shortlist announced for 2020 US-Ireland Research Innovation Awards
Friday, 13 November 2020Shortlist announced for 2020 US-Ireland Research Innovation Awards.
Roundtable Report on the UK R&D roadmap and R&D in the devolved nations
Tuesday, 10 November 2020Unattributed summary of a roundtable organised by the Foundation for Science and Technology with the Celtic Academies Alliance Royal Irish Academy-Royal Society of Edinburgh-Learned Society of Wales-Foundation for...
John Bell Day Lecture 2020: 'Quantum Reality'
Monday, 9 November 2020Watch Eminent physicist, Professor Vlatko Vedral FInstP, Professor of Quantum Information Science at University of Oxford who gave the 2020 John Bell Day lecture.
Celebrating Science Week with the authors of 'Catching the worm'
Monday, 9 November 2020Join RIA authors William C. Campbell and Claire O'Connell on 12 November on RTÉ One.
Crawford and Stokes: key figures in combating yellow fever
Monday, 9 November 2020In the first of a three-part series on public health and infectious disease, we introduce the biographies of doctor John Crawford (1746–1813) and bacteriologist Adrian Stokes (1887–1927), key figures in understanding...