Recent press releases

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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A plant is stuck in a liquid-filled jar. There are also black balls floating in it.

From the road to the plate: lettuce takes up toxic additives from tyre wear

Chemicals from tyre wear could get into our vegetables via sewage sludge and waste water

02.01.2023 | [weiter]

Illustration of an Asgard archaeon. Under water, a roundish structure with several worm-like appendages. In some places the cell membrane (blue) is not drawn, so that the inside becomes visible: granular material connected with fine rods (orange). In the background, some bean-shaped structures (bacteria) and more Asgard archaea are blurred.

Shedding light on the origin of complex life forms

Researchers at the University of Vienna and ETH Zurich cultivate "missing link" microorganism

21.12.2022 | [weiter]

Fig. 1: Some adult individuals watch over the newly-hatched Europasaurus chicks which are leaving the nest to join their herd. Commissioned artwork by Davide Bonadonna.

What the inner ear of Europasaurus reveals about its life

A long-necked dinosaur from northern Germany was precocial

20.12.2022 | [weiter]

Long COVID: New evidence for cause of fatigue syndrome

Not excessive inflammatory reaction, but anti-inflammatory substances as triggers

15.12.2022 | [weiter]

Fig. 1: Summary of atmospheric transport from the Tropical Pacific Ocean. Solid arrows show an increase in mass transport during El Niño; dashed arrows a decrease. Blue arrows show the transport of relatively moist air to anomalously moist local conditions (marked with blue shading), while brown arrows show transport of dry air to anomalously dry local conditions (brown shading). Red circles show transport of warm air aloft that favors stable conditions. Orange shading shows transport of anomalously greater amount of heat from the Pacific Ocean to the Tropical Atlantic. Copyright: Baier et al. 2022, Geophysical Research Letters. CC BY 4.0

Transport of air masses in connection with "El Niño" decoded

Viennese meteorologists: Transport of air mass from the Pacific Ocean explains weather conditions associated with El Niño in North America, South America and Australia

06.12.2022 | [weiter]

Pic. 1: In this experiment, participants had the opportunity to enlarge the artworks and explore them in great detail. (C: ARTMYN)

Novel interactive technology boosts people’s enjoyment with artworks

However, the interactive technology did not improve memory for the artworks

23.11.2022 | [weiter]

Roof of the University of Vienna with a golden statue in front

Ten highly cited researchers at the University of Vienna

The 2022 list of most highly cited researchers worldwide contains ten academics of the University of Vienna. They conduct research at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, the Faculty of Physics, the Faculty of Life Sciences, the Faculty of Computer Science, the Centre for...

15.11.2022 | [weiter]

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]