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    Amsterdam in Wien
    24.10.2018
    Diskurse einzubringen. Eine intensivere Zusammenarbeit und ein regelmäßiger Austausch von Wissenschaftsakademien über Ländergrenzen hinweg, wie beim Joint Academy Day, sind dafür essentiell. Die niederländischen und österreichischen Teilnehmer/innen jedenfalls zeigten sich vom Zukunftspotential dieser Initiative überzeugt. Der nächste Joint Academy Day ist daher bereits in Planung und wird im Herbst 2019 an der Akademie in Wien stattfinden. [...] Akademie der Wissenschaften ...
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    Library of the Middle Ages 2.0
    07.01.2019
    medical papers, sermons, and textbooks. "You can find everything imaginable in the 25,000 medieval manuscripts, although the majority, of course, concern theology", says Christine Glaßner from the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW). Until now, this literary treasure trove from the Middle Ages could only be viewed and analyzed in the respective institutions in Austria. With around 1,200 manuscripts each, the libraries in Melk and ...
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    How war and genocide are remembered
    25.01.2019
    History and historiography have always been politically aligned on present-day purposes. What is to be left out? Who are the victims, who are the perpetrators? How countries remember the darkest chapters in their history, such as genocide and war, is the subject of research by Ljiljana Radonić from the Institute of Cultural Studies and Theatre History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW). Just a few weeks ago, Radonić received an ERC Consolidator Grant worth nearly two ...
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    Finding second hits to knock out leukemia
    28.01.2019
    the most common leukemia in the Western world. Ibrutinib breaks the circle of rampant cell proliferation and allows even patients with high-risk chronic lymphocytic leukemia to survive for many years. However, patients must keep taking the drug every day and endure side effects, often severe, including fever, pain, and fatigue. To improve the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia toward higher efficacy and fewer side effects, scientists are increasingly exploring ...
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    "Avalanche risk very hard to predict"
    08.02.2019
    places in Austria were snowed in and remained unreachable for days. Andrea Fischer from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) in Innsbruck classifies this year's "record winter" climatologically and explains why the avalanche risk is still so difficult to predict. Can we really talk of a "record winter" this year? Andrea Fischer: The amount of snow that fell within a few days in January was exceptionally high. In the ...
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    For a future without blinkers
    18.04.2019
    and became the symbol of the burgeoning environmental movement. It was also to be seen at the beginning of the international conference "Global Sustainable Development Goals in a Mediatized World", which took place from 4 to 5 April at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) in Vienna. Wolfgang Lutz, scientific director of the OeAW Vienna Institute of Demography, showed the photo at the beginning of his presentation, which introduced the topic of the conference: the "Agenda ...
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    Roman time capsule at the bottom of the sea
    25.04.2019
    stretch off Spain's Mediterranean coast. Around 1,000 amphorae or, as the archaeologist Horacio González Cesteros calls them, "time capsules" went down with the ship. The Spaniard is a researcher at the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) and is an expert on ancient ceramics. He is currently investigating the amphorae discovered at the bottom of the sea and their history. He talks about the probable destination of the ship and how to ...
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    Prestigious Chinese science award goes to five Academy members
    26.04.2019
    knowledge in quantum research, opening up opportunities for new applications worldwide. The Foundation announced the winners on April 26, five of them being members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) who are also researching or have researched at the University of Innsbruck, the University of Vienna and the Academy. Rainer Blatt (University of Innsbruck and OeAW) is receiving the prize for his seminal experiments on quantum computers, and Peter Zoller (University of ...
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    Visualizing cancer at early stages
    26.04.2019
    cooking the special material themselves. It is comparable to aspic, Scherzer says. However, they only have a short time to carry out their measurements, as the material ages within a day and becomes unusable. "To be honest, I underestimated at the beginning how difficult it would be. However, I am confident that one day we will bring the technology to the point where it can be used in skin and tissue studies in the way that we envisage." [...] different signals. But in many ...
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