Shedding new light on eye disease (01/02/2012)

It’s sometimes said the eyes are windows into the soul - but with the right technology they can also offer insights into their own health. Being able to image tiny structures and cells in the eye can potentially identify the early stages of degenerative blindness, and it may also help eye surgeons carry out corrective procedures. So Dr Brian Vohnsen and his team at the Advanced Optical Imaging Group in UCD are developing ways to image the eye both closely and rapidly.

Quantum physics enables perfectly secure cloud computing (20/01/2012)

Researchers have succeeded in combining the power of quantum computing with the security of quantum cryptography and have shown that perfectly secure cloud computing can be achieved using the principles of quantum mechanics. They have performed an experimental demonstration of quantum computation in which the input, the data processing, and the output remain unknown to the quantum computer. The international team of scientists published the results of the experiment in the recent issue of Science. (Image by Equinox Graphics)

UCD School of Physics Transition Year event (STYPE) (24/12/2011)

This year's event hosted 28 student from Dublin and surrounding counties for a week of physics based activities. See the full illustrated report.