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Fig. 1: First authors Stefanie Imminger and Dimitri Meier sampling biocrusts in the Negev Desert, Israel.

17.04.2024

How soil microbes survive in harsh desert environments

As desertification spreads worldwide, scientists discover how desert microbes endure harsh drought periods

Fig. 1: Fossilized leaves of Furcula granulifer from the Late Triassic of Greenland

16.04.2024

Seed ferns: plants experimented with complex leaf vein networks 201 million years ago

Fig. 1: Infrared image of the shockwave (red arc) created by the massive giant star Zeta Ophiuchi in an interstellar dust cloud.

12.04.2024

Stellar winds of three sun-like stars detected for the first time

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Abb. 1: Human mesenchymal stem cells were differentiated into fat cells and the fat vacuoles were stained: stem cells and their differentiation products contain specific fatty sweet surface structures (glycolipids) that help distinguish them from each other.

Profiling of fatty sweet molecules on cell surfaces

New method enables measurement of glycolipids; now their relevance in cancer will be investigated

27.10.2022 | [weiter]

Top positions in the THE Subject Ranking

The University of Vienna is again ranked in nine of eleven categories in this year’s THE World University Rankings by subject. In all nine categories, the University ranks among the top 200 universities worldwide.

27.10.2022 | [weiter]

Main building of the University of Vienna

ERC Synergy Grant for shining light on the interplay between gravity and the quantum world

"GRAVITES" – exploring how quantum entangled particles gravitate

25.10.2022 | [weiter]

Black Locust, a tree native to North America

European colonial legacy is still visible in today’s alien floras

The movement of species around the globe has lasting impacts on biodiversity and human livelihoods far into the future

17.10.2022 | [weiter]

A hand holding a smartphone showing a poltical advertisment in a social media feed

How much algorithm can democracy take?

Communication scientists study the effect of microtargeting in political campaigning

12.10.2022 | [weiter]

Abb. 1: A scheme showing the relationships of biological nitrification inhibition in the rhizisphere, improved nitrogen use efficiency and plant productivity, resistance, yield and quality.

How farmers could fertilize more efficiently

Crops can directly contribute to improved nitrogen fertilization efficiency and reduced greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture

11.10.2022 | [weiter]

Abb.1: Syngonium hastiferum with numerous plant bug pollinators

From foe to friend: harmful insects can become pollinators

Tracing a possible origin of animal pollination

06.10.2022 | [weiter]

Anton Zeilinger working on an experiment

Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Anton Zeilinger

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to the Austrian quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger (77), Emeritus Professor at the University of Vienna. This was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday, 4 October 2022, in Stockholm. The Nobel Prize was jointly awarded to...

04.10.2022 | [weiter]