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Here you will find frequently asked questions and answers about the most important corona-related safety precautions at the OeAW.
With the help of cerebral organoids, scientists from the OeAW were able to ascertain that Tuberous Sclerosis, a rare…
Comet and asteroid impacts are popular end-of-the-world scenarios in movies and television. OeAW space researcher Christian Möstl…
There is a lot going on at the OeAW in 2022: the Academy is celebrating its 175th anniversary, opening its Campus Academy in the…
Each year, "Highly Cited Researchers" determines the world's most frequently cited scientists. The latest ranking includes 27…
More and more plant species are being lost, while a few are spreading over large areas. An international research team with the…
The rapid development of vaccines against the coronavirus is not just a milestone in the fight against the pandemic. It is becoming…
Vaccination protects us all: first and second vaccinations are crucial for building up protection, while booster vaccinations…
A team of physicists at the Universities of Vienna, Bristol, the Balearic Islands and at the Austrian Aacdeamy of Sciences has shown…
A joint book project by historians from the Academies of both countries takes a new look at Austro-Slovenian history.
Adolf Eichmann saw career opportunities in Austria that he would not have had in Berlin. Starting in 1938 in Vienna he developed a…
How meaningful are antibody tests in determining the effectiveness of a vaccination and the level of protection against coronavirus…
Unlike people, computers can handle huge amounts of data. This also applies when it comes to finding an optimal strategy against the…
Finds of this kind are extremely rare: in St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, a researcher from the Austrian Academy of Sciences has…
Physicists at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna have been successful in their experiments creating the…
Climate change is melting Austria’s glaciers. But not all of them are melting at the same speed. For some, warming has tipped the…
Quantum matter can be solid and fluid at the same time – a situation known as supersolidity. Researchers led by OeAW physicist…
Covid-19 leaves no one untouched, and a lot has been demanded of young people too for the last one-and-a-half years. How are people…
The astrophysicist will be the new director of the Space Research Institute of the OeAW in Graz.
The quantum movements of a small glass sphere could be controlled for the first time in Vienna by combining microscopy with control…
Only recently researchers have levitated and cooled nanoparticles into the quantum regime. An Austrian research team led by Oriol…
How does science help overcome a pandemic? This is what the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) asked in a publicly advertised prize…
Researchers of the OeAW and the University of Innsbruck have developed a method to make previously hardly accessible properties in…
The President of the EU Commission was a guest at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Academy in Vienna.…
Kerstin Klenke, head of the Phonogrammarchiv of the OeAW, talks about dealing with collections from colonial contexts and the need…
Science is a beacon in rough seas – the fight against the pandemic has clearly shown that, said President Alexander Van der Bellen at…
They are among the most important health policy interventions of the past hundred years and are still in short supply in the fight…
The US science historian has received the Spanish BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2021. Holton has been an honorary…
Self-organizing heart organoids – developed at the Austrian Academy of Sciences – are also effective injury- and in vitro congenital…
Archaeologists of the Austrian Academy of Sciences have found an important early example of the alphabet at Tel Lachish, Israel, from…
OeAW and the Ministry of Science have finalized the new performance agreement – Academy will receive 428.5 million euros by 2023 –…
The corona pandemic is ruthlessly exposing the vulnerability of our societies. How can we make our societies healthier now and in the…
No other country has ordered more coronavirus vaccine per capita than Canada. The Canadian infectious disease specialist Thomas J.…
Artificial intelligence is part of our modern life by enabling machines to learn useful processes such as speech recognition and…
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 archaeology and…
Are we alone in the universe? This is one of the fundamental questions of humanity, going back to when human beings started to gain…
At this year's “Joint Academy Day” on March 18, global challenges such as climate change will be discussed from perspectives on this…
According to preliminary figures from Statistics Austria, the average life expectancy in Austria decreased by six months in the year…
Physicists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Vienna University of Technology want to use a new experiment in the Gran…
Demographers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences have used a new, indirect method to reveal what the age distribution and death…
An international research group including quantum physicists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Scottish Heriot-Watt…
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 an…
Even one of the best health systems can reach its limits. But who should be saved when resources are scarce? The corona crisis is not…
The list of "highly cited researchers" for 2020 is out. Twenty-eight of the world's most cited scientists are employees or members of…
The Nebra Sky Disc is considered to be the oldest concrete astronomical depiction in the world. For a long time the experts agreed…
Genetic, morphological, and chemical studies have identified the two infants from the 31,000-year-old double grave on the Wachtberg…
The Austro-American cell biologist and cancer researcher Angelika Amon has died in the USA at the age of 53. The OeAW mourns its…
The Austrian-based quantum physicists Oriol Romero-Isart and Markus Aspelmeyer, together with Lukas Novotny and Romain Quidant from…
A newly developed method should make it possible in the future to test thousands of samples for the coronavirus in just 24 hours. One…
