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Five Cluster of Excellence

13.03.2023 Press release

Cluster of Excellence "Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health" awarded to the University of Vienna, also in all other clusters the University of Vienna…

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

06.03.2023 Press release

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…

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

28.02.2023 Press release

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

Artificial sweetener as wastewater tracer

08.02.2023 Press release

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

How to reverse unknown quantum processes

07.02.2023 Press release

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

How we navigate through crowds

01.02.2023 Press release

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

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

17.01.2023 Press release

Smaller mesopelagic fishes to be expected with climate warming

"Can you make me a coffee?"

16.01.2023 Press release

Eine Hand hält eine Tasse, in die Kaffee eingeschenkt wird.

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

Chlamydiae expand our view on how intracellular bacteria evolve

10.01.2023 Press release

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

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

02.01.2023 Press release

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