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    CANADA AND AUSTRIA MEET FOR JOINT ACADEMY DAY
    22.02.2021
    For the third time, the OeAW is inviting 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 ...
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    COVID-19 reduces life expectancy, but does not take away years of life
    18.02.2021
    population figures, the coronavirus pandemic led to a six-month reduction in average life expectancy in 2020. Nevertheless, people will not live any shorter overall. Sound contradictory? Marc Luy from the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) explains why it is not. The average life expectancy is recalculated for each year. This means that a baby born today would live a total of half a year less if every year were like 2020: "For these ...
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    New experiment searches for dark matter 1,400 meters underground
    09.02.2021
    Physicists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Vienna University of Technology want to use a new experiment in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory, Italy, to find out whether a so far unconfirmed signal proves the existence of dark matter.
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    Herd immunity: How far we really are from it
    28.01.2021
    Test, test, test. In many countries, tests for SARS-CoV-2 are considered an important requirement for containing the pandemic. But can they detect all infections? Researchers at the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) and the Technical University of Vienna have now reevaluated previous testing strategies, the case fatality rate, and the concept of herd immunity using mathematical models. They describe their approach in the journal PLOS ...
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    INFORMATION TRANSFER IN QUANTUM COMMUNICATION IMPROVED
    12.01.2021
    them to be. "Information can be lost over long distances because there is always background noise, for example from photons from the sun," explains Marcus Huber from the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Vienna of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. This places practical limits on both the bandwidth and the security of such communication channels. Together with colleagues from Edinburgh, as well as from Bratislava and Brno, Austrian researchers ...
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    The year 2020 in science
    11.01.2021
    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 coronavirus in Austria . The academy was also active in providing political and social advice: a specially set up website gathers scientifically proven facts about COVID-19 and an overview of experts, in the summer scientists and parliamentarians drew up an ...
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    OeAW among the "Who's Who" of the world's most cited researchers
    30.11.2020
    Member of the OeAW abroad, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA • Jian-Wei Pan, Physics Member of the OeAW abroad, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China • Christian F. Roos, Physics Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (Innsbruck) of the OeAW and University of Innsbruck • Rupert Seidl, Cross-Field Member of the Young Academy, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna • Christa Schleper, Cross-Field Full Member of the OeAW, ...
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    The Nebra Sky Disc dates from the Early Bronze Age
    13.11.2020
    should be dated to the Iron Age (approx. 800 to 50 BC). This assumption has now been refuted by a 13-strong research team in the periodical “Archaeologia Austriaca” published by the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). The authors of the study show that Gebhard and Krause argue with incomplete and sometimes incorrect or falsely reproduced data. Court statements and soil samples: No doubt about the Mittelberg site It ...
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    Science thriller solved: The Nebra Sky Disc dates from the Early Bronze Age
    13.11.2020
    should be dated to the Iron Age (approx. 800 to 50 BC). This assumption has now been refuted by a 13-strong research team in the periodical “Archaeologia Austriaca” published by the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). The authors of the study show that Gebhard and Krause argue with incomplete and sometimes incorrect or falsely reproduced data. Court statements and soil samples: No doubt about the Mittelberg site It ...