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Here you will find frequently asked questions and answers about the most important corona-related safety precautions at the…
Archaeologists of the Austrian Academy of Sciences have found an important early example of the alphabet at Tel Lachish,…
OeAW and the Ministry of Science have finalized the new performance agreement – Academy will receive 428.5 million euros by…
The corona pandemic is ruthlessly exposing the vulnerability of our societies. How can we make our societies healthier now…
No other country has ordered more coronavirus vaccine per capita than Canada. The Canadian infectious disease specialist…
Artificial intelligence is part of our modern life by enabling machines to learn useful processes such as speech recognition…
Whether you want an only child, the classic two-child family, or a large family, is also related to how religious you are.…
As of this year, the Austrian Archaeological Institute has united the three previous OeAW institutes in the field of…
Are we alone in the universe? This is one of the fundamental questions of humanity, going back to when human beings started…
At this year's “Joint Academy Day” on March 18, global challenges such as climate change will be discussed from perspectives…
According to preliminary figures from Statistics Austria, the average life expectancy in Austria decreased by six months in…
Physicists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Vienna University of Technology want to use a new experiment in the…
Demographers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences have used a new, indirect method to reveal what the age distribution and…
An international research group including quantum physicists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Scottish…
2020 will undoubtedly go down in history as the year of the corona pandemic – and as the year in which, in record time and in…
Even one of the best health systems can reach its limits. But who should be saved when resources are scarce? The corona…
The list of "highly cited researchers" for 2020 is out. Twenty-eight of the world's most cited scientists are employees or…
The Nebra Sky Disc is considered to be the oldest concrete astronomical depiction in the world. For a long time the experts…
Genetic, morphological, and chemical studies have identified the two infants from the 31,000-year-old double grave on the…
The Austro-American cell biologist and cancer researcher Angelika Amon has died in the USA at the age of 53. The OeAW mourns…
The Austrian-based quantum physicists Oriol Romero-Isart and Markus Aspelmeyer, together with Lukas Novotny and Romain…
A newly developed method should make it possible in the future to test thousands of samples for the coronavirus in just 24…
The scientific journal "Egypt and the Levant" is celebrating a big anniversary this year. The archaeological journal…
It does not require any special laboratory equipment or expertise: a new procedure developed by molecular biologists from the…
The year 2020 once again stokes fears of the apocalypse. Sociologist and OeAW member Stephan Moebius explains what drives…
Molecular biologists from the OeAW have shown how brain tumor cells "feed" themselves to become immortal. They specifically…
It is just a few weeks until the US elections. American society has been extremely divided since Donald Trump's presidency.…
The Austrian-British filmmaker and historian Frederick Baker has died at the age of 55. The Academy, with which he was…
A meta-study with the participation of the Austrian Academy of Sciences shows a connection between environmental changes,…
A modern center of research and knowledge is emerging in the old university quarter in the center of Vienna: the Academy…
A new method makes it possible to test thousands of drugs at the same time. A start-up led by OeAW molecular biologist Stefan…
In Bristol researchers in cooperation with the Austrian Academy of Sciences have built a network that allows…
With the help of the computer algorithm Melvin, quantum researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University…
VIDEO: OeAW particle physicist Valentyna Mokina explains how crystals, light and low temperature are combined to find an…
Out now: the new annual report of the OeAW. Find out more in a brief summary.
The traveling exhibition "Europe – Legacy of the Humanists" portrays scholars from over 20 countries who propagated values…
A third of European countries have experienced a population decline since 2000. Birth rate is still falling in many parts of…
By drilling into the ice of Alpine glaciers we can get a glimpse of Europe's climate history. In an interview, OeAW…
After George Floyd's death at the hands of police in the USA, people all over the world took to the streets to demonstrate…
In a new strategy paper, Europe's particle physicists set the course for the future. The plans, in which the Austrian Academy…
What can we learn from dealing with the corona pandemic for future crises? This question was the focus of the dialogue format…
The Byzantine Empire was dependent on migration and promoted it both within and outside of its borders. This is detailed in a…
We are used to the fact that events are sharply localised in time. In a cuckoo clock, the cuckoo always calls at a precise…
The formation of the Greek city states, the invention of the Greek alphabet, Greek colonisation and the era of Homer – all…
An international team of researchers with the participation of IMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian…
Research is the key to solving the current corona crisis. To advance the efforts of the scientific community, the Vienna…
An international research team involving the Austrian Academy of Sciences has developed a method by which malt-based food can…
Together with university and non-university research institutions, the life sciences institutes of the OeAW provide…
In an interview, virologist and OeAW member Peter Palese explains how we can get through the corona crisis and what…
The first 21 SARS-CoV-2 genomes in Austria have now been completed and published within the scope of the “Mutational Dynamics…
When it comes to family planning, many factors play a role. In addition to finances, family policy and career, the place of…
The coronavirus hasn’t put a stop to basic research. On the contrary, some fields are now reinventing themselves in home…
Space weather can occasionally cause problems on Earth, but the forecasts are currently subject to great uncertainties. A…
The IST Austria biophysicist will receive the Lieben Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for his outstanding research…
An international team led by Walter Pohl, a historian at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna, is…
An international research team with the participation of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has examined whether we rate our…
The complex manipulation of quantum systems is one of the most important tasks for quantum information technologies. A team…
Researchers in Austria use lasers to levitate and cool a glass nanoparticle into the quantum regime. Although it is trapped…
The rustling of leaves in a forest, a pop concert, the noise of a jackhammer – sound is what connects all these different…
Two Austrian researchers have developed a novel method with which computer programs can efficiently process the knowledge…
The research agendas of the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Historical…
An international team of researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna established a quantum…
From the emperor's voice to endangered languages: the Phonogrammarchiv of the OeAW collects recordings from past and present…
Although 4,000 exoplanets have been discovered, a "second Earth" is not among them. The space mission CHEOPS, which was…
Glaciologists from all over the world have published an open letter in the journal "Nature", urging action against global…
The list of "highly cited researchers" for 2019 is out. Twenty-eight of the world's most cited scientists are employees or…
Researchers of the Austrian Academy of Sciences identified a key mechanism for how antiviral immune responses reprogram liver…
Physicists of the Austrian Academy of Sciences have succeeded in making the entanglement of quanta more robust and therefore…
The second Joint Academy Day saw researchers from five Eastern European partner academies visiting the OeAW. One of the…
The film "The Class of '38. Exile & Excellence" documents the memories of researchers who, as children or adolescents, were…
Researchers at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences have developed a new…
The OeAW archaeologist Irene Forstner-Müller heads the Austro-Egyptian excavation in Kom Ombo, where over 5,000 years of…
Patients with rare diseases often wait years before doctors find out what’s wrong. The young OeAW researcher Julia Pazmandi…
Unique burial landscapes give OeAW researchers insights into a long-lost culture in the south of today's China.
An international team with quantum researchers from the OeAW has closed a gap in the physics theory of time travel. This…
A new website of the Austrian Academy of Sciences gives an accessible overview of the changes in the number of births,…
Data protection is on everyone's lips and yet our data can still end up in the wrong hands. Why is that and what can we do…
An international research team with participation from the Austrian Academy of Sciences has provided the first chemical proof…
The three Austrian scientists received the Micius Prize in Hefei, China. The prize, awarded for the first time, is for…
To coincide with the centenary of the peace treaties of Saint-Germain and Trianon, a new monograph by Austrian historian…
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is a new paradigm in drug discovery that could lead to the development of new medicines to…
The theories of quantum mechanics and gravity are notorious for being incompatible, despite the efforts of scores of…
More than one-fifth of all human cancers harbor mutations in one of the members of the BAF chromatin remodeling complex. Deep…
Austrian and Chinese scientists have succeeded in teleporting three-dimensional quantum states for the first time.…
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen is a physicist in the United States, a member of the OeAW abroad, and recent winner of the…
Molecular biologists of the Austrian Academy of Sciences describe “adaptive radiation” of RNA export proteins. Their findings…
Researchers from Austria and Germany have discovered a fragment of text from the end of the 13th century at Melk Abbey that…
A public statement by numerous European scientific institutes calls for the amendment of the EU's almost 20-year-old GMO…
Thousands of sheets of music in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna suffered water damage due to a dripping tap. But, after…
Virtual assistants like Alexa and Siri can tell us the weather, play music or chat with us. This can be useful and fun. But…
Most people like dancing – and so do parrots. OeAW researcher Marisa Höschele studies budgerigars in search for the roots of…
Science and politics should create better awareness of the opportunities and risks of rapid digital development. After all,…
One of the essential features required for the realization of a quantum computer is quantum entanglement. A team of…
A recent study by the Academy reveals how the interaction of the epigenetic protein BRD4 with the metabolic enzyme MTHFD1…
With a quantum coprocessor in the cloud, physicists of the Austrian Academy of Sciences open the door to the simulation of…
Glaciers in Austria lose an average of one meter of ice thickness per year. Mountain researchers from the Austrian Academy of…
The quantum physicists Rainer Blatt, Anton Zeilinger and Peter Zoller, as well as Juan Ignacio Cirac and Jian-Wei Pan, will…
Not far from the Spanish coast, a Roman merchant ship lay undiscovered on the seabed for more than 2,000 years. Its cargo is…
Through randomly selected measurements, Austrian physicists can determine the quantum entanglement of many-particle systems.…
