Trinity College Science Society

We can often tell how someone is feeling by looking at their facial expressions, but emotion is more than skin deep. Advancements in technology are allowing scientists to visualise human and other great ape stress responses using thermal imaging. Professor Gilly Forrester will share her lab’s exciting new research …

New carbon allotropes such as graphene and carbon nanotubes have led to many technological advances. Other carbon allotropes can be created by organic synthesis. The cyclo[N]carbons are a family of molecular carbon allotropes consisting of rings of two-coordinate atoms. There has been much recent progress towards understanding the …