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Picture of a person holding a cigarette.

30.06.2025

Mothers are more likely to smoke later in life if they take longer parental leave

Data from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and The Netherlands

Fig. 1: Picture of the core team of the project.

26.06.2025

Successful launch of the first space-proof quantum Computer

Foto des Hauptgebäudes der Universität Wien

24.06.2025

6 FWF-ASTRA Awards and 2 Merit Awards to researchers from the University of Vienna

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Image of Mozart bending over a patient.

The Mozart effect myth: Listening to music does not help against epilepsy

A new study by psychologists at the University of Vienna shows that there is no scientific evidence supporting the alleged positive effect of Mozart's Sonata KV448 on epilepsy.

06.03.2023 | [weiter]

Fig. 1: Fossil of the Late Jurassic shark Protospinax annectans from Solnhofen and Eichstätt, Germany

Jurassic shark – Shark from the Jurassic period was already highly evolved

New phylogenetic tree provides new insights into the evolutionary history of sharks and rays

28.02.2023 | [weiter]

Abb. 1: KI-designed picture of a candy landscape

Artificial sweetener as wastewater tracer

New study by the University of Vienna shows what the sweetener acesulfame reveals about groundwater flows

08.02.2023 | [weiter]

Abb. 1: Graphic of a person with a dandelion blossom and a dandelion

How to reverse unknown quantum processes

Time evolution of a single photon reversed with a universal rewinding protocol and a quantum switch.

07.02.2023 | [weiter]

Abb. 1: abstract picture of crowds

How we navigate through crowds

Our brain has its own GPS and it helps us navigate by detecting the movements of the people around us.

01.02.2023 | [weiter]

A silvery fish.

Ocean warming reduced the body sizes of fishes in the "twilight zone" in past interglacial

Smaller mesopelagic fishes to be expected with climate warming

17.01.2023 | [weiter]

A hand is holding a coffee cup into which milk foam is being poured.

"Can you make me a coffee?"

Length of speech pauses signals speakers' willingness to do others a favour

16.01.2023 | [weiter]

Abb. 1: Chlamydiae, known as bacterial pathogens of humans, originally evolved in single-celled microorganisms long before gaining the ability to infect humans. The image shows soil amoeba (labeled in green) and their chlamydial symbionts (labeled in orange).

Chlamydiae expand our view on how intracellular bacteria evolve

Despite being intracellular symbionts, some chlamydiae could gain important genes through gene transfer from other bacteria.

10.01.2023 | [weiter]

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