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  • News
    ‘Invisible’ Poem by W.H. Auden Reconstructed
    04.08.2023
    It was a chance discovery made by Timo Frühwirth and Sandra Mayer , literary historians at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW). While working on a digital edition of the British-American poet W. H. Auden's correspondence with the Welsh-Austrian writer and journalist Stella Musulin, they noticed colourless indented typewriter impressions of lines of poetry contained in two documents. Through the use of computer-vision technologies, a previously unknown version of an Auden ...
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    ‘INVISIBLE’ POEM BY W.H. AUDEN RECONSTRUCTED
    04.08.2023
    It was a chance discovery made by Timo Frühwirth and Sandra Mayer , literary historians at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW). While working on a digital edition of the British-American poet W. H. Auden's correspondence with the Welsh-Austrian writer and journalist Stella Musulin, they noticed colourless indented typewriter impressions of lines of poetry contained in two documents. Through the use of computer-vision technologies, a previously unknown version of an Auden ...
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    Climate crisis is accelerating species extinction – also in the Andes
    20.07.2023
    Ecology and Biogeography suggests that this development will continue to accelerate in the future. The “Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments” (GLORIA), a long-term monitoring and research program coordinated by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) Vienna, used plant community data collected from 720 long-term observation plots on 45 mountain summits in the high Andes between 2011 and ...
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    Queerness in Ancient Egypt
    17.07.2023
    Gender identity and gender roles are not an invention of modern times. They have always shaped people's lives - also in antiquity. Uroš Matić, Egyptologist at the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) , works on gender archaeology which deals with sexuality and gender roles in prehistoric and ancient societies. Researching Gender in Antiquity In your opinion, what makes gender archaeology so fascinating? Uroš Matić: The question of ...
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    Cholera as a blueprint for pandemics
    07.07.2023
    cholera pandemic, which has been ongoing since 1961, outbreaks have repeatedly occurred worldwide. In May, a workshop on cholera took place at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW). In an interview, OeAW medical anthropologist Eva-Maria Knoll and Indian medical historian Vivek Neelakantan, who is currently a guest researcher at the Academy, explain the parallels to COVID-19 and how cholera outbreaks are related to a strained water supply. These research activities are part ...
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    Copper Age grave: male chief was actually a woman
    06.07.2023
    the skeleton was initially identified as male. Now, 15 years later, further research reveals a surprise: using tooth enamel analysis, a new scientific method of sex determination, a team of archaeologists, including researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) and the University of Vienna as well as the Medical University of Vienna, prove that the person is biologically female. The results of the study have been published in the renowned journal Nature Scientific ...
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    "Embryo models are an ethical alternative"
    03.07.2023
    Recently, several research groups in the U.S., Israel and China have reported progress in developing embryo models from human stem cells. Research on such models could provide insights into infertility, early miscarriage and prenatal preventive medicine. Nicolas Rivron, molecular biologist at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), explains what embryo models actually are, what opportunities they offer for solving global health challenges and what ethical issues arise from research with stem cells.
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    Eurasia’s past and present
    30.06.2023
    “EurAsian Transformations” is one of five Clusters of Excellence funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) that will start in summer 2023. Under the leadership of Claudia Rapp, Director of the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), the cultural heritage of Eurasia will be researched over the next five years. Four institutions with a total of 31 scientists will work together in the research network to explore this large region “in its ...
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    Grüne Gentechnik: Offener Brief für eine wissenschaftsbasierte Beurteilung
    29.06.2023
    beurteilen. Die entstehenden Pflanzen sollen nach ihren Eigenschaften, nicht nach der Methode ihrer Erzeugung geprüft werden. Wir schließen uns den entsprechenden Empfehlungen der deutschen Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina, des European Academies Science Advisory Council und der EU Initiative Sustainable Agriculture through Genome Editing an. Unser Appell richtet sich an politische Entscheidungsträger:innen, Interessensvertretungen und NGOs: Eine ideologisch ...
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    Topologische Quantenmaterie und die 'zweite Quantenrevolution'
    27.06.2023
    entwickelt, mit deren Hilfe man Quantencomputing voranbringen könnte. Duncan Haldane ist derzeit Sherman Fairchild Universitätsprofessor für Physik an der Princeton University, sowie Fellow der Royal Society of London, der U.S. National Academy of Sciences, der American Academy of Arts and Sciences, der American Association for the Advancement of Science, der American Physical Society und des Institute of Physics (UK). Mit diesem Vortrag (in englischer Sprache) setzt er die ...