Scientists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Natural History Museum Vienna and the University of Vienna, together with an international research team, have carried out a complete genetic examination of two cemeteries in Mödling and…

CSI methods show: Skull from the collection of the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology is not from Arsinoë IV

Trust remains stable, but interest is declining +++ 80% believe that research is improving our lives +++ Only 32% feel well informed - Faßmann: ‘Our task is more science communication’

Joint appeal by Austrian research institutions and funding agencies to the future government

50 years after it was rebuilt, the Celsus Library in Ephesos is about to undergo extensive conservation. The Austrian Academy of Sciences is launching a large-scale project to protect the ancient monument and its intricate, magnificent façade from…

A new centre for cutting-edge research into metabolic disorders is being established in Graz: the Gerti and Carl Cori Institute, operated by the Austrian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the three universities in Graz. The plans for the…

The church building in Italy reveals the connections between the Roman metropolis of Aquileia and the architecture of the Eastern Roman Empire under the famous Emperor Justinian I. The basilica is the first large-scale building to be discovered in…

First-ever observation of mini-tornadoes in supersolid quantum gas. Supersolids are a new form of quantum matter that has only recently been demonstrated. The state of matter can be produced artificially in ultracold, dipolar quantum gases. A team…

Zeus and Hera, Ulysses and Persephone are household names, even today. In ancient Greece, the stories told about them were part of everyday life, but also the subject of doubt and scepticism. Jan Bremmer of the University of Groningen discusses the…

An extraordinary find in southern Serbia sheds light on the origins of the first sedentary societies in Europe: an 8000-year-old house has been discovered in Svinjarička Čuka. The archaeological discoveries give new insights into the early…

OeAW President Heinz Faßmann participated in the European Union's High Level Group on the recently presented interim evaluation of the EU's funding programme for research and innovation, ‘Horizon Europe’. He talks about the most important findings…

Artificial intelligence, or rather, its most important inventors, have received several Nobel Prizes in 2024. Michael Bronstein, the new director of the AITHYRA Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, which combines AI with biomedicine, is…

IIASA Distinguished Emeritus Research Scholar Wolfgang Lutz, who also holds roles at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) and the University of Vienna, has been awarded the world’s most highly esteemed education prize for his research on the role…

Michael Bronstein leads the new AITHYRA Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ++ Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation is funding the project with € 150 million

President Faßmann: “OeAW has made a significant contribution to making Austria the land of quantum.”

How dangerous is Mpox? Why did it used to be called monkeypox virus? And is the next pandemic looming after the coronavirus? In this interview, immunologist Andreas Bergthaler, researcher at Medical University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of…

An international research team with the participation of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has deciphered genetic traces of the Lombards in northern Italy. The analysis of the Collegno cemetery near Turin provides information about the genetic mixing…

Archaeologists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have come across strong similarities in a special method for producing stone projectiles in Europe and the Levant. This indicates a technology transfer…

Recognising the similarity between notes played in different octaves is an important skill for music and language development. A recent study by sound researchers at the Austrian Academy of Sciences has now demonstrated that not only humans but also…

In the extensively researched Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, a team of researchers, including OeAW historians, has discovered the largest known medieval altar, which had been considered lost for decades. Consecrated in 1149, the…

Can and must autonomous vehicles make ethical decisions? Edmond Awad, founder of "The Moral Machine", will report on an unusual experiment on June 27 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Some initial insights he provides in an interview.

Martin Steskal succeeds Sabine Ladstätter, who has lead the renowned Austrian excavations in western Türkiye since 2010.

In Lower Austria, a local winegrower has discovered mammoth bones that are approximately 30,000 to 40,000 years old. It is the most significant find of this kind in more than 100 years. Researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, who are now…

Europe's science academies are appealing to future MEPs to promote science and research more strongly in order to secure the continent's leading role in science.

Icebergs on the Bosporus and a frozen Black Sea: an international study involving the University of Bern and the Austrian Academy of Sciences shows how volcanic eruptions on Iceland influenced the European climate in the early Middle Ages and led to…

In the COSINUS research project, an international team including the Technical University Vienna (TU Wien) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) is searching for evidence of dark matter. The large-scale experiment is now starting in Italy.

New performance agreement concluded - Academy receives 529.2 million euros for the next three years. OeAW President Heinz Faßmann: "The increase in budget enables us to continue to appoint outstanding researchers to the OeAW and to promote promising…

Giving researchers in the early phases of their career a boost towards top-level research: With the “Disruptive Innovation - Early Career Seed Money” funding program, the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) help…

US biochemist becomes new director of IMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna

Archaeologists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) are working with an international team of experts to investigate a crucial phase in the cultural evolution of humans in South Africa. For the first time under Austrian-South African…

This has been successfully demonstrated by scientists at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and TU Wien during a flight in cooperation with the European Space Agency. Their set-up for distributing and detecting entangled photons was sturdy enough to…

OeAW President Heinz Faßmann: "We are looking for essays discussing Austria as a research location". The best submissions will be awarded with a total of 16,000 Euros. The deadline for essays is May 1, 2024.

New excavations by archaeologists of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Greek Ministry of Culture in Kleidi-Samikon in the Western Peloponnese show that the temple discovered in 2022 was more monumental than previously assumed. It is a large…

In a new publication, quantum researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Innsbruck discuss how to make a nanoscale-sized glass bead show quantum effects at macroscopic scales.

Loss of trust is a central problem ++ Members of the public want political independence of science and the media ++ Importance of debate over non-transparent decisions ++ Training for scientists before crisis consulting for politicians

OeAW President: “We must unite in raising our voices.”

A recent study by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) shows that the majority of Austrians do not believe that climate change can still be brought under control, but more than a third are convinced that humanity can still live comfortable with a…

Researchers of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Innsbruck have developed a new tool for determining entanglement in many-particle systems and demonstrated it in an experiment. The method, published in the journal "Nature",…

Social anthropologist Judith Bovensiepen and cultural scientist Ariane Sadjed have each been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The highly endowed funding will be used to conduct research into human-environment…

Researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences have published a new radiocarbon dataset for Tel Gezer, one of the most important Bronze and Iron Age sites in Israel, in the journal PLOS ONE. This makes it possible for the first time to check the…

EASAC Secretariat located at the Austrian Academy of Sciences as of 1 January 2024.

Quantum physicists at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Innsbruck succeeded in experimentally observing interactions between quasiparticles in ultracold quantum gas. The results of their study, published in the journal "Nature…

Researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Innsbruck combined their expertise with colleagues from Harvard University to develop the first quantum gas microscopes in Austria and the USA. This opens up completely new…

Since the attack by the radical Islamist group Hamas, antisemitic prejudices are on the rise, extending to open hatred towards Jews. In an interview, the OeAW historian and antisemitism researcher Isolde Vogel talks about how terrorism is being…

Ferenc Krausz, Anne L’Huillier, Anton Zeilinger and many more: members of the OeAW frequently grace the Nobel Prize awards ceremony in Sweden. Here, we present quotes from the Nobel Prize-winning OeAW members of the more recent past.

Researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, together with colleagues from Max Perutz Labs and St. Anna Children's Cancer Research, have made important progress in the study of rare diseases of the immune system: By relying on network-based…

Researchers in Vienna have obtained the world’s first gene sequences of the human roundworm from the Bronze Age, as well as the first gene sequences from prehistoric parasites in Austria. The analysis was conducted on human faeces from prehistoric…

The Erich Schmid Institute for Material Sciences of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Leoben can significantly expand its infrastructure for precision measurements on batteries, fuel cells and microelectronic systems thanks to a new grant of 1.4…

With the use of computer-vision technologies, researchers at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) have been able to recover a previously unknown version of a poem by the British-American writer W. H. Auden, who died in Vienna in 1973.

Global warming is changing plant communities on mountain summits worldwide. In the South American Andes, the longest mountain range on earth, plant species are spreading to higher elevations, while more and more ancestral mountain plants are being…