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    Wie Mikrobiome in den Fokus rücken
    21.04.2026
    menschliche Gesundheit wird es immer wichtiger, symbiotische Interaktionen in ihren komplexen Details zu verstehen. Eine der Expert:innen dieses Forschungsgebiets ist Margaret McFall-Ngai von California Institute of Technology & Carnegie Science in Pasadena. Im Rahmen der "Young Academy Distinguished Lecture Series" an der ÖAW gibt sie im Vortrag " The Invisible Force Revealed: Developing New Ways to Study the Microbial World Surrounding Us" Einblick in die unsichtbaren ...
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    Virtual perspective of rare diseases
    04.11.2019
    "It looks like a beautiful starry sky: 15,000 bright points, different distances apart and interconnected", says Julia Pazmandi, PhD student at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases. She is describing the world that you enter when you put on the VR glasses and headphones in a special lab and pick up two joysticks. In fact, the shimmering network is not a ...
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    Towards a "European way" for digitalization
    25.06.2019
    s with expiry dates Nevertheless, digitalization is not a general danger. The task of science and politics must be to create an awareness of the risks as well as the opportunities "based on the current state of research", stressed Anton Zeilinger. That is exactly why lively exchange between science and politics is so important. The fact that such exchange, based on models like the European Commission's "Science meets Parliaments", now also takes place regularly and at a ...
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    The year 2020 in science
    11.01.2021
    the beginning of the pandemic. Social scientists, for example, dealt with the question of how long an optimal lockdown should last, why the corona crisis mainly affects young people, and how refugees deal with the crisis. Historians, on the other hand, looked at past epidemics or the first uses of so-called triage . The life sciences institutes of the OeAW were able to create two new test procedures (RT-LAMP and SARSeq) and tracked the mutation pathways and dynamics of the ...
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    The story of Hitler’s DNA – and what genes really reveal about us
    01.12.2025
    The question “What makes us who we are?” also concerns Christoph Bock, bioinformatician at the CeMM – Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) and member of the Young Academy. In this interview, Bock explains how tightly intertwined genetic predispositions, external influences and sheer randomness are. He describes why gene analyses reveal only probabilities, how national sequencing initiatives like “Genome of Europe” may ...
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    The morality of the machine
    25.06.2024
    "Narratives of Digital Ethics" conference at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). In the web interview, Awad describes how machines deal with moral decision-making situations - and what universal moral preferences we humans have. „Narratives of Digital Ethics“ 27 to 28 June 2024 Austrian Academy of Sciences, Festive Hall Dr Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna PROGRAMMe Registration Machines assume responsibility The Moral Machine is a science project developed in 2016 that ...
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    The best research conditions for the best minds
    07.04.2021
    The new performance agreement for the years 2021 to 2023 was signed jointly by Science Minister Heinz Faßmann and OeAW President Anton Zeilinger on March 23, 2021. In total, the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) has around 428.5 million euros at its disposal for the years 2021 to 2023. This is an increase of 61 million euros compared to the previous three-year period. This ensures the continuation of innovative projects in the fields of quantum and stem cell research, ...
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    The Young Academy Distinguished Lecture Series
    21.04.2026
    The Young Academy has launched its own lecture series: die Young Academy Distinguished Lecture Series. The YADLS brings scientific topics of general relevance to the public, presented by an invited distinguished expert and a member of the Young Academy in an interactive and accessible format. The aim is to inspire open-minded discussion about cutting-edge research in both humanities and the natural sciences. Dates: 13 November 2026 – Host: Ugur Öztürk , Guest: Thorsten ...
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    The Young Academy Distinguished Lecture Series
    21.04.2026
    Die Junge Akademie hat eine eigene Vortragsreihe ins Leben gerufen: die Young Academy Distinguished Lecture Series. Die YADLS bringt der Öffentlichkeit wissenschaftliche Themen von allgemeiner Relevanz nahe, präsentiert von einer eingeladenen renommierten Expert:in und einem Mitglied der Jungen Akademie in einem interaktiven und zugänglichen Format. Ziel ist es, eine aufgeschlossene Diskussion über den neuesten Stand der Forschung in den Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften ...
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    The Women Changing Science in the Mediterranean
    20.02.2025
    careers. By making their stories accessible in nine languages, the exhibition aims to inspire young generations, increase women’s visibility in science, and showcase the Mediterranean’s scientific talent as part of the European Researchers’ Night initiative and the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. "The Marie Curies of the Mediterranean" Exhibition in the Aula of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Opening Times : Monday to Friday, between 8 am and 5 pm, until 9 ...