Press releases

Uptake of tire wear additives by vegetables grown for human consumption

05.06.2024 Press release

© Pexels / Kai Pilger

Irrigation with treated wastewater and sewage sludge brings tire additives into the leafy vegetables

5,000-year-old wine for Egyptian queen

09.10.2023 Press release

© EC Köhler

Team led by archaeologist Christiana Köhler researches Meret-Neith’s tomb in Abydos

Ocean ecosystem: Mixotrophic microorganisms play key role

29.04.2023 Press release

© 2022 Federico Baltar

Previously unknown group of bacteria in the deep sea regulates energy balance

ATRACK: Career entry and career paths of university graduates

13.04.2023 Press release

© Barbara Mair

Factsheets for 2023 on labour market status, industry affiliation and income development

Tired of being alone: How social isolation impacts on our energy

04.04.2023 Press release

© Annie Spratt (Unsplash)

Eight hours without social contact can lead to a reduction in energy similar to eight hours without food

ERC Advanced Grant for scientist from the University of Vienna

30.03.2023 Press release

© Manuela Ciotti

Manuela Ciotti from the Faculty of Social Sciences receives award

How microbiomes are influencing our planet’s health

13.03.2023 Press release

© Ludwig Schedl

Cluster of Excellence "Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health"

Five Cluster of Excellence

13.03.2023 Press release

© FWF Daniel Novotny

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

© DALL·E

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

© Sebastian Stumpf

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

Artificial sweetener as wastewater tracer

08.02.2023 Press release

© DALL·E

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

© Christine Schiansky @freowynart

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

© DALL·E

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

© Francesco Costa via Wikipedia

Smaller mesopelagic fishes to be expected with climate warming

"Can you make me a coffee?"

16.01.2023 Press release

© Louis Hansel via Unsplash

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

© Eva Heinz

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

© Gabriel Sigmund

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