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  • News
    The importance of lightning for life on early earth
    23.06.2023
    2 molecules. Lightning in the lab To investigate how lightning can make nitrogen available to living things, researchers at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, together with colleagues from the Space Research Institute (SRI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Brown University in the USA, carried out lightning experiments. The researchers filled glass flasks with water and various gas mixtures to imitate the atmosphere of today’s Earth as well as that of early ...
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    Birds value correct grammar
    16.06.2023
    and C comes before D. Individual notes can also be omitted or repeated, resulting in several hundred possible combinations that all follow the basic order,” explains co-author Marisa Hoeschele from the Acoustics Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) . Enemy warning Black-capped chickadees can use this simple four-note grammar to send different messages to their conspecifics. “We know from another study, for example, that warnings about an owl repeat ...
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    Archaeological Experiments with Greenstone Axes on Tree, Pig and Stone
    16.06.2023
    Finds from the two important World Heritage sites Göbekli Tepe and Çukuriçi Höyük in Turkey served as models for the replicas used for the experiments. Laura Dietrich, archaeologist at the Austrian Archaeological Institute (OeAI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) : "Grinded stone axes were invented in the early Neolithic period around 9,600 to 8,000 BC in Southwest Asia. They enabled one of the greatest changes in human history: the transition from hunting and ...
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    20 years of pioneering research: Academy Institute IMBA celebrates anniversary
    09.06.2023
    It all started in 2003 with a research group led by Australian geneticist Barry Dickson. Now, 20 years later, IMBA - the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology - is the largest research institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) with around 250 employees from more than 40 nations. A total of 14 groups are currently conducting basic research on stem cells, organoids, RNA biology and chromosome biology. Located at the Vienna BioCenter, IMBA is one of the leading ...
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    Scientists Urge Moratorium on Deep-Sea Mining
    08.06.2023
    Supporters of deep-sea mining maintain that increased rare minerals demand in ‘green technologies’ such as wind, solar and batteries cannot be met from terrestrial sources. Having examined forecasts, the European Academies of Science Advisory Council (EASAC), of which the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) is a member, is skeptical that deep-sea mining is necessary to cover the needs for critical materials. “The narrative that deep-sea mining is essential to meeting our ...
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    Kulturelle Dimensionen digitaler Ethik
    05.06.2023
    Art und Weise, wie wir leben, wie unsere Gesellschaften und Volkswirtschaften funktionieren, und er verschiebt die globalen Machtverhältnisse. Darüber hinaus hat er zu einem noch nie da gewesenen Maß an globaler Vernetzung geführt. Die Initiative "Academies for Global Innovation and Digital Ethics (AGIDE)" will die sozio-kulturelle Vielfalt an Perspektiven aus aller Welt aufgreifen und Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten weiter erforschen, ohne Uniformität oder Konsens zu ...
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    Out now: Annual report of the OeAW
    31.05.2023
    The annual report of the Academy looks back at the highlights of 2022.
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    “Gas ist keine Zukunftsoption”
    24.05.2023
    Aktuell basiert rund ein Fünftel des Energieverbrauchs der EU auf Gas. Das kann nicht so bleiben, sagen Expert:innen aus ganz Europa in einem neuen Report des European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC). Europas Energiezukunft muss ohne Gas auskommen, sollen die Klimaziele bis zum Jahr 2050 erreicht werden, so der Verbund aller Wissenschaftsakademien Europas, zum dem auch die Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW) gehört. Die Ökonomin Anne Neumann von der ...
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    A PALACE COMPLEX AS ADMINISTRATIVE RESIDENCE IN EPHESOS
    12.05.2023
    realised that this room must be just one part of a much larger complex. So my research developed step by step, and I ended up working on this project for more than ten years. Thanks to the support of the Austrian Archaeological Institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, my team and I were for the first time able to carry out a systematic building survey of the already exposed ruins as well as targeted excavations. Subsequently, we studied the history of the building and ...
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    ÖAW-Mitglieder Elly Tanaka & Kim Nasmyth in National Academy of Sciences gewählt
    03.05.2023
    Die beiden Mitglieder der ÖAW, Elly Tanaka und Kim Nasmyth wurden in den Kreis der Auslandsmitglieder der renommierten US-National Academy of Sciences (NAS) aufgenommen. Beide sind eng mit dem Wiener Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pathologie (IMP) verbunden: Tanaka forscht hier seit 2016 als Senior Scientist zur Regenerationsfähigkeit des mexikanischen Schwanzlurchs Axolotl. Nasmyth wurde 1987 an das neu gegründete IMP in Wien berufen, dessen Leitung er von 1997 bis 2006 ...