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

An international research team led by a researcher from the University of Vienna has for the first time directly detected stellar winds from three Sun-like stars by recording the X-ray emission from their astrospheres, and placed constraints on the...
11-Apr-2024 5:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Physics of Complex Fluids: Ring Polymers Show Unexpected Motion Patterns Under Shear

An international research team is attracting the attention of experts in the field with computational results on the behavior of ring polymers under shear forces: Reyhaneh Farimani, University of Vienna, and her colleagues showed that for the...
30-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Rays were more diverse 150 million years ago than previously thought

In a new study recently published in the journal Papers in Palaeontology, an international team of scientists led by palaeobiologist Julia Türtscher from the University of Vienna has explored the puzzling world of rays that lived 150 million years...
21-Mar-2024 5:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Frequency of heat days systematically underestimated in many studies

Many studies on the climate crisis focus on researching temperature extremes on a global scale. Scientists at the University of Vienna have now uncovered an error in an established calculation method, leading to a systematic underestimation in the...
19-Mar-2024 4:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Global warming increases the diversity of active soil bacteria

Warmer soils harbour a greater diversity of active microbes, according to a new study from researchers at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS) at the University of Vienna. The study, published in Science Advances,...
23-Feb-2024 2:00 PM EST Add to Favorites

Nature is particularly beneficial for people on lower income

Data from a representative sample of the Austrian population suggests that the relationship between nature contact and well-being is consistently stronger for people on lower than higher incomes.
7-Feb-2024 5:00 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Immune system meets cancer: Checkpoint identified to fight solid tumors

A study by a scientific team from the University of Vienna and the MedUni Vienna, recently published in the top-class journal Cellular & Molecular Immunology, has a promising result from tumor research: The enzyme phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase...
6-Feb-2024 12:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Discovery of high order skyrmions and antiskyrmions

Researchers at the University of Augsburg and the University of Vienna have discovered co-existing magnetic skyrmions and antiskyrmions of arbitrary topological charge at room temperature in magnetic Co/Ni multilayer thin films.
25-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST Add to Favorites


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