While Western European population continues to grow, many countries of Eastern and South-eastern Europe are shrinking at an alarming...

Young academics: Describing the complex reality with a relatively simple equitation is a well-known dream for many phycisists. OeAW...

Mariya Gabriel is EU commissioner for the digital economy and society. In preparation of Austria's EU-Presidency she visited Vienna...

Plant researchers of the OeAW identified targets of pathogens using methods from social media analytics. Their findings have recently...

OeAW member Edelsbrunner, who is a mathematician at IST Austria, has been awarded the most prestigious award for science and research...

Maria Theresa is one of Austria`s most iconic figures in history. This was due to a carefully crafted image of the monarch whose...

Fanconi anemia, a rare and severe genetic disease, is caused by damaged DNA repair genes in the cells of the affected patients. OeAW...

Immunologist Yasmine Belkaid explained at a lecture, which is part of the Landsteiner lecture series at the OeAW, how microorganisms...

Der ÖAW-Quantenphysiker erhielt den "Norman F. Ramsey-Preis". Die Auszeichnung wurde von der American Physical Society zum ersten Mal...

Technological advancement does not take place in a vacuum: Robots, machines and algorithms are based on human interests, values and...

Gold, silver and copper were the components of the first coins in the 7th century in Asia Minor. Several hundred coin types were...

Quantum technology could revolutionize medical diagnostics in the coming years. In a lecture of the OeAw Schrödinger Lecture series...

Mit der Übergabe ihrer Dekrete wurden 29 neu gewählte Mitglieder feierlich in die ÖAW aufgenommen.

In der Säure-Verteidigung des menschlichen Immunsystems kommt einem speziellen Protein eine zentrale Rolle zu. Das fanden...

Over 380 early historical maps, plans and views from the collections of the Austrian Academy of Sciences are now available online....

SLAMseq is a new tool kit for biomedical research. OeAW researcher Stefan L. Ameres has developed the sequencing method which...

"A Puzzle in 4D" is unique in the German-speaking world: The digital archive visualizes the history of the excavation work in Tell...

The earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25 in 2015 with a series of aftershocks was the strongest in that region since 80 years,...

Bis 13. August 2018 können Projekte für die Aufnahme in das Programm Earth System Sciences eingereicht werden.

Das weltweite quantenphysikalische Mitmach-Experiment „BIG Bell Test“ sollte 2016 Albert Einsteins Urteil über die Verschränkung von...

Ultrafast attosecond flashes were generated for the first time in Vienna in 2001. That was the shortest controllable time span ever...

Der Ruf nach mehr direkter Demokratie wird immer lauter. In Zeiten des Rechtspopulismus ist sie aber nicht unumstritten. Mit welchen...

Die Landeeinheit InSight wird Daten zum Aufbau des Roten Planeten sammeln. An der Auswertung sind auch Weltraumforscher/innen der ÖAW...

Molekularmediziner/innen der ÖAW suchten gemeinsam mit Kolleg/innen des britischen Wellcome Trust Sanger Institutes nach Spuren von...

Humans are still over-using the natural resources of the planet, burdening future generations with the ecological consequences that...

Climate change was partly responsible for the weakening of the Ottoman Empire in conflict with the Habsburg Empire, indicates a new...

The iconic stone pillars from the Stone Age still pose mysteries for scientists today. According to British archaeologist Michael...

Students from Lower Austria developed a fully automated lighting dome in a Citizen Science project, with which OeAW archaeologists...

For centuries they were hidden from the eye: Under the writings of some old manuscripts further ancient scripts are hidden. With...

If you want to understand how life works, you have to understand how cells divide. British Nobel laureate Sir Paul Nurse has...

16 female and 13 male outstanding researchers have been added to the ranks of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

The "Wien[n]erisches Diarium" is considered to be one of the oldest newspapers. Its rich historic data pool is now being digitalized...

Besucheransturm an ÖAW-Stationen bei der Langen Nacht der Forschung.

A current exhibition at Schallaburg castle looks back on the splendour and misery of the Byzantine Empire and the Latin West who...

Ein deutsch-österreichisches Forschungsteam unter Beteiligung von Quantenphysiker/innen der ÖAW realisierte ein verschränktes...

OeAW researchers Magnus Nordborg and Stefan Hagel are receiving Advanced Grants from the European Research Council.

An international team of researchers with participation of the Academy reports in “Nature Communications” that remote areas in...

Mountain plants are increasingly reacting to climate change. Parallel to the rising temperatures in high mountains, today five times...

Air crashes, train accidents, accidents with self-driving cars - they all involve not only human tragedies, but also questions of...

What was the jurisprudence in Egypt about 2,000 years ago? OeAW member and historian of antiquity Bernhard Palme investigates the...

Molecular biologists of the OeAW discovered new details on the origin of cancer cells. The results are published in the open access...

Researchers at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences develop a new theoretical framework to describe how...

Young Academics: Big Bang created equal amounts of matter and antimatter, at least in theory. However, according to the rules of...

As children they had to flee Austria under Nazi rule. Today, they are among the most outstanding scientists in the world. Eighty...

No written record of the late Bronze Age exists. Therefore, researchers have to rely on finds in grave sites and settlements if they...

Iva Tolić from the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb has been awarded this year’s Ignaz L. Lieben Prize for her outstanding research...

Veraltete Handschriften wurden im Mittelalter in kleine Streifen geschnitten und wiederverwendet. Andreas Fingernagel begibt sich mit...

"Everybody is constantly online" - that was Martin Slama`s impression, when he began doing research on the media usage of Indonesian...

Lise Meitner wurde 1948 in die ÖAW aufgenommen. Sie hatte eine bewegte Lebensgeschichte und Karriere in der „Männerdomäne Physik“.

Ein internationales Team rund um Physiker/innen der ÖAW und Universität Innsbruck konnte erstmals sogenannte Rotonen in einem...

Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen and the Federal Minister of Education, Science and Research Heinz Faßmann took a trip to...

Freedom of expression, freedom of the press and freedom of speech: The enforcement of civil rights that are mostly taken for granted...

Mit go!digital unterstützt die ÖAW Projekte mit bis zu 220.000 Euro. Der aktuelle Call läuft bis 15. Mai 2018.

Mit dem wirklichen ÖAW-Mitglied verstarb am 10. Februar 2018 einer der führenden Historiker Österreichs.

3.500 years ago the Nile island Sai was nothing but a military stronghold. In the reign of Pharao Tutmosis III however it became a...

Der renommierte Literaturwissenschaftler und Reformer mit Weitblick verstarb im Alter von 82 Jahren. Die Akademie trauert um ihren...

Communication requires to embody information into a physical system, the so-called information carrier. Classically, the information...

Today's high-speed trains bring up to 300 km/h onto rail. OeAW acoustics researchers are developing physical formulas to make tunnels...

Quantum entanglement is a key feature of a quantum computer. Yet, how can we verify that a quantum computer indeed incorporates a...

The civil war in Yemen has been raging for over two years. But who is fighting whom? OeAW social anthropologist Marieke Brandt, who...

OeAW glaciologist Andrea Fischer explores ancient ice from alpine glaciers. For these are a window into the Earth's past - and key...

Promoting the career of junior scientists - that's the aim of the fellowship programmes of the OeAW. Current calls can be found at...

The research satellite „China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite“ lifted off into space. It carries a highly sensitive quantum...

Die ÖAW ist erschüttert über antisemitische und rassistische Texte in Burschenschafts-Liederbuch.

Am 25. Jänner fand an der ÖAW die exklusive Voraufführung der Dokumentation „Einsteins Wien“ statt. Der Mathematiker Karl Sigmund von...

ÖAW-Präsident Zeilinger: „Von der Erforschung des Weltkulturerbes Ephesos profitieren nicht nur die Wissenschaften, sondern alle...

Der ehemalige Direktor des Instituts für Weltraumforschung der ÖAW, Willibald Riedler, ist 85-jährig verstorben. Das hochverdiente...

The 100th anniversary of the Republic of Austria offers the opportunity to reassess the turbulent events of 1918. The fact that...

In a newly released publication in the science journal Physical Review Letters, researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences,...

150 years ago archaeologists discovered fragments of musical instruments near a pyramid. OeAW philologist and musicologist Stefan...

Ein internationales Team rund um Pflanzenforscher/innen der ÖAW analysierte die komplexen Wechselwirkungen zwischen molekularen...

Five young scientists and five highly innovative research projects are being funded by Austria’s new Erwin Schrödinger Center for...

Ein reichhaltiges Veranstaltungsprogramm erwartet Wissenschaftsfans an der ÖAW. Acht Highlights die man 2018 auf keinen Fall...

Blockchains are booming. They promise more security, more transparency and more fairness in the virtual world of data. But is that...

An international team of researchers demonstrated that structures of complex societies worldwide show similar patterns in their...

Academy member and quantum physicist Pan Jianwei is among the ten most influential scientists in 2017, Nature says.

An answer to a quantum question provided by the algorithm Melvin has uncovered a hidden link between quantum experiments and the...

Academy member Heinz Faßmann has been appointed minister of education, science and research.

A new programme by FWF and OeAW funds innovative projects by teams of young researchers.

The doyen of tex law died at the age of 92. The OeAW mourns the loss of a great scientist and an inspiring fellow.

From Thirty Years' War to Napoleon's Aspern - the bioarchaeological examination of mass graves at historic battle sites reveals many...

The cultural significance of the Austrian National Theatre "Burgtheater" for the First Austrian Republic is being comprehensively...

Nasmyth receives one of five 2018 Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences for his work on chromosome segregation. He has been a member...

Artificial Intelligence isn't that intelligent, says AI-expert Douglas Hofstadter. At the OeAW he explained, what makes him think so...

OeAW molecular researcher has received a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council. His project focusses on studying the...

With the recent publication of the last volume of the "Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität" a monumental piece of work has been...

New OeAW Performance Agreement 2018-2020: Academy budget reaches 363 mio. euros - fundings for dynamic and interdisciplinary research...

The paintings of the Italian Renaissance painter are perfect templates for modern graphic-design programs, says Da-Vinci-expert...

Five young scientists were awarded the „For Women in Science“ scholarships. The awarding ceremony took place in the Austrian Academy...

Historian Waltraud Heindl was awarded the Wilhelm Hartel-Prize, Quantumphysicist Francesca Ferlaino the Erwin Schrödinger-Prize. Both...

An international conference examined the testimonies of Holocaust survivors and their descendants. Why do their stories still matter...