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    18.03.2019
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    Linguistic puzzle from the Silk Road
    15.02.2019
    enabled, for example, Iranian and Chinese traders to communicate. Syriac monks also used Sogdian to talk to people on the Silk Road and to convert them to the Christian faith. For Chiara Barbati from the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the language opens a door to a long-lost world. She explores the rare manuscripts preserved from this period that tell of the lively cultural exchange in an area that today is characterized by tensions. Dr. ...
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    "Avalanche risk very hard to predict"
    08.02.2019
    years". But there is also a downside to the heavy snowfall: only a few weeks ago numerous 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 ...
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    Chemiker Manfred Eigen verstorben
    07.02.2019
    Nobelpreis erhielt Eigen eine große Anzahl weiterer renommierter Preise. 1965 wurde er Honorarprofessor an der TU Braunschweig, darüber hinaus war er Mitglied weiterer Wissenschaftsakademien wie der deutschen Leopoldina und der US-amerikanischen National Academy of Sciences. Die Republik Österreich ehrte ihn 1976 mit dem Österreichischen Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst. Eigens wissenschaftliche Interessen gingen weit über das eigene Fachgebiet hinaus. Sein unbändiger ...
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    Faster than allowed by quantum computing?
    01.02.2019
    physics can sometimes lead to new types of computers. What kinds of computers would be conceivable if physics worked differently? The quantum physicists Markus Müller from the Viennese Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and Marius Krumm from the University of Vienna have addressed this question. Theoretical properties of such "science fiction computers" could give us interesting insights into quantum computing. Bits ...
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    Academy awards almost 100 scholarships to young researchers
    31.01.2019
    On January 31, 2019, exactly 99 young researchers from various scientific disciplines received a scholarship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) and the MAX KADE Foundation. In competition with their peers, they were able to convince the reviewers with their projects and will be supported in their research activities for up to three years. Funding is provided for research projects in the natural sciences, the life sciences and medicine, as well as the humanities, ...
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    How does a quantum particle see the world?
    30.01.2019
    quantum-mechanical rules. They can be, for example, in a quantum state of superposition of different positions at once. So, what would the description of the ball look like for an observer on such a “quantum platform”? Researchers at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Vienna proved that whether an object (in our example, the ball) shows quantum features depends on the reference frame. The physical laws, however, are still independent of it. The results are ...
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    Finding second hits to knock out leukemia
    28.01.2019
    the leukemia in a hard enough way to later make treatment unnecessary. New method for effective combinations To speed up the search for promising drug combinations, a team of scientists at CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Medical University of Vienna developed a method that can effectively sift through a large number of possibilities and identify those drug combinations that have true potential. The work describing the ...
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    How war and genocide are remembered
    25.01.2019
    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 million euros for her large-scale research project "Globalized Memorial Museums. Exhibiting Atrocities in the Era of ...
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    Deciphering diabetes with human blood vessels from stem cells
    16.01.2019
    changes. This limitation has stymied the development of much needed therapeutics. Engineering human blood vessels from stem cells To tackle this problem, Josef Penninger and Reiner Wimmer at IMBA – Institute for Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , established a groundbreaking model: self-organizing, three-dimensional (3D) human blood vessel organoids grown in a Petri dish. These so called vascular organoids can be robustly cultivated from induced ...