Giant Viruses Infect Deadly Parasite
The single-celled organism Naegleria fowleri ranks among the deadliest human parasites. Researchers around Matthias Horn and Patrick Arthofer from the Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science at the University of Vienna, in an...
24-Apr-2024 5:00 AM EDT
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Compact quantum light processing
An international collaboration of researchers, led by Philip Walther at University of Vienna, have achieved a significant breakthrough in quantum technology, with the successful demonstration of quantum interference among several single photons...
19-Apr-2024 1:00 AM EDT
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How soil microbes survive in harsh desert environments
Prolonged droughts followed by sudden bursts of rainfall – how do desert soil bacteria manage to survive such harsh conditions? This long-debated question has now been answered by an ERC project led by microbiologist Dagmar Woebken from the Centre...
16-Apr-2024 5:00 AM EDT
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Seed ferns: plants experimented with complex leaf vein networks 201 million years ago
According to a research team led by palaeontologists from the University of Vienna, the net-like leaf veining typical for today’s flowering plants developed much earlier than previously thought, but died out again several times.
15-Apr-2024 5:00 AM EDT
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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
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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
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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
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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
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