Queen's University Belfast

Obviously, collectively, we're really alarmed and researchers and scientists are working incredibly hard, incredibly quickly to try and get to the bottom of this so that we can support our collective populations in trying to reverse this trend.

But Professor Chris Elliott, who's a former government safety advisor at Queen's University Belfast, he has been kind of on every news site going, talking about how processed meat comes into this and just renewing calls to clamp down on nitrates and nitrites and bacon, ham and salamis.

And as a reminder, they're used to prevent bacterial overgrowth and keep the meat looking pink, but they can contribute to something, to compounds that can create DNA damage.

And the estimate is that more than 50,000 UK bowel cancer cases over the last decade could be attributed to eating processed meat.

We know about the Trojans of the planet Jupiter and Uranus, but they have never been found for Neptune.

So that is why this is such a breakthrough because these scientists, yes, as you've said, led from Queen's University in Belfast.

And I think there's a fairly high degree of student members to this team.

They're at the astrophysics research center at queen's university uh meg schwamb is an astronomer and lecturer there and basically led led the team of scientists working on this including um some uh some you know other international colleagues um and of course using the vera c rubin observatories telescope so um How's the discovery been made? Just by what we were talking about a bit earlier, this session, Andrew, that the telescope basically photographs the entire sky every three nights.

And so if you're looking for things that move, That's the way to do it.

The planet Neptune will have been in their field of view at one point, and they probably subtracted that from the images.

And that was Americans in Dublin.

We're going to talk now to an Irish person with wide experience in America, Fionnuala Ní Éileann, Professor of Law at Minnesota and Professor of Law at Queen's University, Belfast as well.

Fionnuala, Fáilteach, Iain Clare.

Go raibh míle maith agat, á sir maith agat.

And Rubin Observatory, still in its early data, has gone looking.

A team led by Meg Schwamb at Queen's University Belfast confirmed two objects, 2025 MH348 and 2025 NN80, as long-lived trailing Trojans, and added a third candidate, 2025 MD138.

In Schwamb's words, that doubles the number of known objects in this population on long-lived orbits.

Rubin's color filters also suggest the leading and trailing Trojans have similar surfaces, which is a clue that both clouds were filled from the same population of primitive bodies early on.

And then Deep Joy and Taste split up the same year, funnily enough, in Belfast.

Rory got in touch with me, I think, Tate split up in October or something like that, 1970, in Queen's University in Belfast.

My band, Deep Joy, we kept on going in London and we ended up going back to Belfast and did our last show in the Ulster Hall, funny enough, in 1970 at New Year's Eve.

So there was an acquaintance there, you know, between ourselves, myself and Rory in those days anyway.