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    Epigenetics: How plants keep genes silent
    07.11.2025
    silencing transposable elements and preventing them from jumping. But how epigenetic markers are maintained every time a cell divides has remained unclear. New research, led by Pierre Bourguet at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and published in Nature Plants , has now identified a new key player: a previously unknown protein called CDCA7. Working together with another protein, DDM1, CDCA7 is essential for one particular type of ...
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    Eurasia’s past and present
    30.06.2023
    “EurAsian Transformations” is one of five Clusters of Excellence funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) that will start in summer 2023. Under the leadership of Claudia Rapp, Director of the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), the cultural heritage of Eurasia will be researched over the next five years. Four institutions with a total of 31 scientists will work together in the research network to explore this large region “in its ...
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    Is time travel theoretically possible?
    29.10.2019
    This contradiction was resolved by physicists with the assumption of a coherent universe: in this case it would not be possible to kill your grandfather, since any action during a journey back in time would already be part of the grandfather’s life history. One of the most important questions that remained was the nature of this temporal-causal relationship. Physicists found that there are an infinite number of logically coherent time curves that connect a clear initial ...
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    Austria’s Long Way to Democracy
    26.11.2025
    In his monumental work Austria, 1867–1955 , Boyer presents a detailed account of Austrian history. Spanning over 1,000 pages, the book traces Austria’s path from the twilight of the Habsburg monarchy, through the First and Second Republics, and into the Kreisky era, while shedding light on influential figures such as Karl Lueger and Karl Renner. The German edition has just been published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and will be presented at the Wien Museum on ...
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    Black Lives Matter – also in literature
    22.06.2020
    y less front money than their White colleagues*. This is just one of the many injustices that, through the "Black Lives Matter" movement (BLM), is currently being highlighted. Anglicist Julia Lajta-Novak, who is a member of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) and who recently received an FWF START Prize, discusses in an interview why Black literature has for a long time received too little attention and why it is also important in academia to raise ...
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    One hundred years ago, centuries came to an end
    15.11.2018
    nation states in Eastern Europe. This was confirmed at the conference by his peer Rudolf Kucera from the Czech Academy of Sciences, who spoke about Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Poland. Even countries that emerged victorious from the war were anything but peaceful after 1918, as Kucera pointed out using case studies about ethnically-motivated acts of violence. A turning point in history Nevertheless, 1918 was a historic turning point or, as the Eastern European historian ...
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    NEW TESTAMENT: FRAGMENT OF 1,750-YEAR-OLD TRANSLATION DISCOVERED
    06.04.2023
    About 1,300 years ago a scribe in Palestine took a book of the Gospels inscribed with a Syriac text and erased it. Parchment was scarce in the desert in the Middle Ages, so manuscripts were often erased and reused. A medievalist from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) has now been able to make the lost words on this layered manuscript, a so-called palimpsest, legible again: Grigory Kessel discovered one of the earliest translations of the Gospels, made in the 3 rd ...
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    NECROPOLIS IN THE BALKANS PROVIDES UNIQUE INSIGHTS INTO LIFE AND DEATH IN PREHISTORY
    12.08.2022
    finds, such as the bird chariot from Glasinac, now on display in the Natural History Museum in Vienna. They originate from a culture that covered present-day Bosnia with a dense network of well-fortified hilltop settlements. However, knowledge about the burial customs of this population group has been patchy so far. This makes the findings of a research team from the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) and from Bosnia-Herzegovina at ...
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    "The split in US society has economic roots"
    18.09.2020
    this is understandable from cultural history. Many people in the USA view any government directive as interference with their basic rights. How can individualism in the USA be explained from a cultural-historical perspective? Zacharasiewicz: The American historian Frederick Jackson Turner described in the late 19 th century how much the collective experience of the frontier, the border between the cultivated land and the so-called wilderness, influenced the history of the ...
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    THE „GREAT SMOKY DRAGON“ OF QUANTUM PHYSICS
    10.03.2016
    from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, and Anton Zeilinger from the University of Vienna and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences have now shown the success of this endeavor in an extensive study, which sums up and evaluates the whole history of delayed choice experiments. While the concept of wave-particle duality can be traced back to Albert Einstein’s explanation of the photoelectric effect via ...