Press Releases
‘Risk’ prize recognises research by University of ÌÇÐÄTV physics Professor into economic damages of climate change
Research that shed light on the economic impacts of climate change that was co-authored by University of ÌÇÐÄTV physicists has been awarded a 2021 Lloyd’s Science of Risk prize in the Climate Change category.
Discovered: The mechanism that generates huge white dwarf magnetic fields
A dynamo mechanism could explain the incredibly strong magnetic fields in white dwarf stars according to an international team of scientists, including a University of ÌÇÐÄTV astronomer.
Search for planetary remains and new mathematical concepts at University of ÌÇÐÄTV receive over €4 million European research funding
Scientists at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV are to benefit from a total of over €4 million funding to support new projects that will aim to find and analyse the remains of planets around nearby dead stars, and to find new ways of incorporating the ideas of combinatorics into different areas of mathematics.
First transiting exoplanet’s ‘chemical fingerprint’ reveals its distant birthplace
Astronomers have found evidence that the first exoplanet that was identified transiting its star could have migrated to a close orbit with its star from its original birthplace further away.
Search for strange Skyrmion phenomenon fails but finds even stranger magnetic beaded necklace with computer memory storage possibilities
Physicists on the hunt for a rarely seen magnetic spin texture have discovered another object that bears its hallmarks, hidden in the structure of ultra-thin magnetic films, that they have called an incommensurate spin crystal. A team from the University of ÌÇÐÄTV reports the findings in the journal Nature Communications, which could offer new possibilities for technologies such as computer memory and storage.
Algorithms inspired by social networks reveal lifecycle of substorms, a key element of space weather
Space weather often manifests as substorms, where a beautiful auroral display such as the Northern Lights is accompanied by an electrical current in space which has effects at earth that can interfere with and damage power distribution and electrical systems. Now, the lifecycle of these auroral substorms has been revealed using social media-inspired mathematical tools to analyse space weather observations across the Earth’s surface.