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    Christiane Helling is to lead space research at the OeAW
    21.07.2021
    Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) is getting new management. The astrophysicist Christiane Helling succeeds the long-time director Wolfgang Baumjohann, who is retiring. Helling prevailed over her three competitors in a public hearing. “The question of humanity's place in the vastness of the universe is as old as humanity itself. Through its research on planets within and outside the solar system and their interactions with the parent stars, the ...
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    Cholera as a blueprint for pandemics
    07.07.2023
    consensus between the Indian central and state governments on the implementation of lockdowns. Knoll: Scientist David Arnold has described cholera as the original pandemic of the modern era. It laid the foundation for how we, both in science and in the public, think about pandemics as a global phenomenon that affects everyone. Cholera first highlighted the interconnectedness of global crises, as well as spurring international cooperation to develop a vaccination. Given these ...
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    Career support for members of the Young Academy
    01.11.2025
    Young Academy members are eligible to apply for funding to support their individual academic careers. Each member is entitled to receive €1,000 per year or €8,000 per membership term. The range of eligible costs includes coaching and publication grants, as well as subsidies for events. It is strongly recommended that members of the Young Academy utilise the network to initiate interdisciplinary projects, thereby also benefiting from increased financial resources. In order to ...
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    Can Biology Help us Defend Free Will? An Emerging Debate in Philosophy
    10.06.2025
    function could free will serve? Taking evolution seriously also suggests considering the possibility that free will may not be a privilege of human organisms. The Young Academy Distinguished Lecture Series brings cutting-edge scientific topics to the public, presented by distinguished experts and a member of the Young Academy. Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 (CEST) Place: Johannessaal, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Doktor-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2, Vienna The full ...
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    Can Biology Help us Defend Free Will? An Emerging Debate in Philosophy
    10.06.2025
    function could free will serve? Taking evolution seriously also suggests considering the possibility that free will may not be a privilege of human organisms. The Young Academy Distinguished Lecture Series brings cutting-edge scientific topics to the public, presented by distinguished experts and a member of the Young Academy. Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 (CEST) Place: Johannessaal, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Doktor-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna The full ...
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    CANADA AND AUSTRIA MEET FOR JOINT ACADEMY DAY
    22.02.2021
    representatives of a partner academy – this time the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) – to a multidisciplinary exchange on global challenges. Due to the pandemic, this year's “Joint Academy Day” will take place as a webinar and is explicitly aimed at the public. Between 3:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. (CET) on March 18, those interested are invited to get to know Canadian and Austrian perspectives on topics such as “Arctic and Alpine Environmental Change”, “Multicultural Citizenship” ...
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    Byzantium was for centuries a hub for migration
    03.06.2020
    caused by the plague around 1350. Migration not as a threat but as a constant Migration as a phenomenon that has always existed in history is often misjudged in the present. Historian Preiser-Kapeller: "For years, migration has mostly been discussed in public debate as an exceptional situation, as a challenge or even as a threat. By contrast, our book sheds light on migration as a constant of human experience, on the basis of which political structures, cultural areas and ...
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    Building block of "happiness hormone" is key to controlling various diseases
    07.11.2018
    BH4 we can “tame” these auto-aggressive T cells so that they do not destroy healthy tissue or cause chronic inflammation, " says Shane Cronin "says Shane Cronin, postdoctoral fellow at the IMBA and Harvard as well as first author of the current publication in Nature.Together with Clifford Woolf of Harvard Medical School, and Kai Johnsson, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, the researchers developed a novel drug called QM385, which inhibits BH4 production ...
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    Brain organoid models help under­stand the origin of a rare neuro­develop­mental genetic disorder
    27.01.2022
    root cause of TSC led us to a progenitor cell type specific to the human brain. This explains why the pathology of this disease could not be well established with other laboratory models, ” explains Jürgen Knoblich, co-corresponding author on the publication. Tuberous Sclerosis - animal models are not enough In many affected patients, TSC manifests in the form of severe epilepsy and psychiatric symptoms like autism and learning difficulties. Morphologically, TSC is ...
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    Books for Xmas
    14.12.2017
    Still looking for christmas gifts for book-lovers and readers interested in science? We got an idea for you: the latest publications of OeAW’s publishing house. Read more in German.