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  • News
    Austria’s Long Way to Democracy
    26.11.2025
    Boyer: This is really at the heart of the book. By around 1910, Austrian politics in the areas that became the Austrian republic (after 1918) was dominated by two parties: the Christian Socials and the Social Democrats. These were mass parties, created in the 1890s, and they filled the political space left by the collapse of the Liberals and the pan-German parties. These two parties inherited much of the sovereignty and political power of the Crown after 1918. They drafted t ...
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    Award for OeAW honorary member Gerald Holton
    21.05.2021
    to the history of science Holton, Professor of Physics and History of Science at Harvard University, developed "a reasoned analysis of the complex phenomenon of anti-science, and its role in totalitarianism," the jury said. The historian is also honored for "his innovative contributions to science education, his decisive role in the preservation of Albert Einstein's documentary legacy, and his studies into the fate of children forced to flee Nazi Germany". Holton is a ...
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    BAFfling cancer growth strategies
    20.08.2019
    Chromatin organizes the approximately two meters of DNA present in the nucleus of every human cell so that, dependent on the cell type and state, certain genes can be activated, others repressed. The fundamental organizing unit of chromatin is the nucleosome, consisting of 146 base pairs of DNA wrapped around a histone octamer. Whenever a cell needs to adapt – for example, to respond to developmental or environmental signals or to DNA damage –, it needs to alter the ...
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    Beyond Dungeons and Dragons: Studying Medieval Table-top Games
    20.06.2025
    settings. Playing and Studying the Middle Ages What aspects of pen and paper games are you hoping to study? Thom Gobbitt: There are three core areas that I want to look at within the overall umbrella of the gamification of the early Middle Ages. The first one is the perception of the medieval past in role-play games, which really has two main subdivisions. One of them is the question of accuracy, and the other is the question of authenticity. Accuracy means “the past that is ...
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    Beyond Dungeons and Dragons: Studying Medieval Table-top Games
    20.06.2025
    settings. Playing and Studying the Middle Ages What aspects of pen and paper games are you hoping to study? Thom Gobbitt: There are three core areas that I want to look at within the overall umbrella of the gamification of the early Middle Ages. The first one is the perception of the medieval past in role-play games, which really has two main subdivisions. One of them is the question of accuracy, and the other is the question of authenticity. Accuracy means “the past that is ...
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    Black Lives Matter – also in literature
    22.06.2020
    Under the hashtag #PublishingPaidMe, there is currently a lively discussion on Twitter about what authors earn. It became clear that Black writers receive significantly 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 ...
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    Byzantium was for centuries a hub for migration
    03.06.2020
    The entire history of mankind is a history of migration. For thousands of years, people have left their homes to set foot elsewhere, whether forced or voluntary. This is evidenced by the historical migrations of the 19 th and 20 th centuries as well as the so-called "Migration Period" in Western Europe from the 4 th to 6 th centuries. What is less well known is that, between the 4 th and the 15 th century, the Byzantine Empire was a central hub for mobility between the three ...
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    COSINUS searches for dark matter
    18.04.2024
    measures, the data must also be very carefully evaluated and compared with each other in order to really assess the reliability of the signals. Heinz Faßmann, President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences: "Dark matter is one of the great mysteries of physics. The matter we can see seems to be just the tip of the iceberg. So far, however, no experiment has been able to prove the existence of dark matter beyond doubt. With the combined forces of Max Planck in Germany, TU Wien ...
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    COSINUS searches for dark matter
    18.04.2024
    Munich, the Vienna University of Technology, the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Italy) and the Helsinki Institute of Physics (Finland). A special measuring device was developed for the COSINUS project in which a crystal is cooled to extremely low temperatures in order to be able to measure the energy of particles very precisely. If the universe is full of dark matter consisting of previously ...
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    COVID-19 reduces life expectancy, but does not take away years of life
    18.02.2021
    result of the pandemic, has a particularly strong impact on the life expectancy indicator. A decline of six months is a noticeable kink in the trend, but also not a once-in-a-century event. Average life expectancy always shows short-term fluctuations. In 2015, we had a decrease of 0.3 years in Austria. In some neighboring countries, life expectancy even fell by half a year. How is life expectancy even calculated? Luy: That is a really important question. This is because the ...