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A new study co-led by UCD suggests that a greater understanding of biofilms could be key to protecting human health during spaceflights.

Posted on: 21 January 2026 Blocking microglia prevents infant forgetting and improves memory in mice, suggesting that these specialist immune cells in the brain may actively manage memory formation and dictate what, and when, we forget. Infants of many species from mouse to human rapidly forget things that happen to them-a phenomenon called infantile amnesia, but until now we have known little about how this happens.

Posted on: 09 January 2026 Physicists from Trinity believe new insights into the behaviour of light may offer a new means of solving one of science's oldest challenges - how to turn heat into useful energy.