Jupiter explorer “Juice” uses Austrian quantum sensor in search for the prerequisites for life

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Graz-based researchers have developed a magnetic field sensor that can measure the smallest fields with the help of quantum physics. The sensor is now on its way to Jupiter to help detect water there.
Space image Jupiter and its three months, in the foreground the ESA probe “Juice"

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Robert Legenstein is developing intelligent computers based on the human brain.

Oct. 24, 2024
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“Inspiration is one of the most important components” (Robert Legenstein)

The environmental microbiologist Barbara Bayer wants to find out how the overfertilization of lakes and oceans influences the natural methane cycle.

Aug. 29, 2024
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What happens to the greenhouse gas methane (Barbara Bayer)

Stem cell researcher Nicole Amberg is studying the cerebellum and its developmental path in order to develop new therapies.

July 11, 2024
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Unraveling the evolution of the cerebellum (Nicole Amberg)

Physicist Roland Resel tracks down new crystal structures that enable the production of materials with special properties.

May 23, 2024
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A seeker of materials (Roland Resel)

In her project DEMEDARTS, artist Ruth Mateus-Berr is implementing new approaches and developing innovative designs around the topic of dementia.

Mar. 11, 2024
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Addressing dementia with art (Ruth Mateus-Berr)

What changes are due to evolutions and which are caused by climate change? Are there tipping points? These are the issues biologist and START Award winner Markus Möst explores by studying water fleas.

Dec. 18, 2023
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Learning from water fleas (Markus Möst)
Aug. 11, 2023
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It all started with a sheep (Eleni Tomazou)
May 15, 2023
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Pioneer in archaea research (Christa Schleper)

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Botanist Ilse Kranner focuses her research on how plants react to stressors and how this will affect food security.

Oct. 22, 2024
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Staying fit and healthy for as long as possible. To a large extent, it’s up to us how we age, says molecular biologist Corina Madreiter-Sokolowski.

June 27, 2024
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The science communication project SOUNDS WILD seeks to convey knowledge about birds and bats, fostering awareness of the need to protect nature.

Apr. 30, 2024
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Researcher Bea Maas in front of wilderness and mountains in Africa

Oksana Havryliv is an expert on all things profane, crude or obscene. Her research deals with how and when people swear and how verbal aggression is changing in a multicultural society.

Feb. 5, 2024
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Both biological differences and gender have bearing on a person’s health. In Austria, gender medicine research was midwifed by Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, a pioneer in her field.

Nov. 17, 2023
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Alexandra Kautzky-Willer

The media artist Stefanie Wuschitz explores how recycled materials can be used to manufacture electronic devices.

Sep. 25, 2023
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Stefanie Wuschitz

Nicolas Singewald researches what causes anxiety disorders and the development of new therapies.

July 4, 2023
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Nicolas Singewald

Persian and Jewish culture are closely connected, says Ariane Sadjed. She aims to illustrate the many faceted nature of the coexistence of Jews and Muslims.

Apr. 27, 2023
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Ariane Sadjed

Many of the contemporary-history topics that Barbara Stelzl-Marx has investigated from a retrospective perspective have resurfaced in Europe with the Ukraine war.

Dec. 16, 2022
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In Austria, eight in one hundred children and adolescents are being treated for an eating disorder. Child and adolescent psychiatrist Andreas Karwautz would wish to see more of those affected seeking psychiatric help at an early stage.

July 11, 2022
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Interview & Opinion

FWF Schrödinger Fellow and postdoc in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate David Baker, shares his experience and explains the significance of the advances of protein design for medicine.

Oct. 14, 2024
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Physicist Gregor Weihs about quantum physics in Austria, the importance of knowledge transfer, application development and why basic research is a bit like art.

Oct. 8, 2024
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Communications scholar Sophie Lecheler is researching the kinds of dangers and opportunities algorithm-based political campaigns pose to democracy.

Sep. 23, 2024
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Biologist and FWF Wittgenstein Award winner Jiri Friml researches how plants recognize and adapt to changing environmental conditions.

June 20, 2024
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FWF START Award winner Juan P. Aguilera is developing tools to clarify which mathematical problems are solvable and which are not.

June 20, 2024
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Linguist and FWF START Award winner Svitlana Antonyuk is finding out how emotional reactions affect language change.

June 20, 2024
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Dan Batovici explores the question of why some secondary early Christian figures attained a high status in late antique and medieval writings.

June 20, 2024
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Uroš Delić is investigating how interacting quantum systems behave and hopes to open the door to a whole new field of research.

June 20, 2024
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FWF START Award winner Esther Heid is combining chemistry and computer science to make production processes more sustainable.

June 20, 2024
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FWF START Award winner Senka Holzer is investigating the role of stress and high blood pressure in heart failure.

June 20, 2024
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At Northwestern University (NU) near Chicago, economist Kilian Rieder took a look back in time to the unstable financial markets of the 1920s.

Oct. 24, 2024
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In the international environment of the University of Oxford, the microbiologist Isabella Tomanek is culturing and studying communities of gut bacteria to understand how they work together.

Sep. 20, 2024
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Biotechnologist Kathrin Göritzer develops plant-based antibodies that target the virus' gateway, the mucous membranes. These could be used to prevent infections like SARS-CoV-2 in the future.

Aug. 27, 2024
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Geologist and Schrödinger Fellow Erik Wolfgring is investigating sediment cores from the Cretaceous period. He is exploring the lessons to be learnt from this for the current climate crisis.

May 16, 2024
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Schrödinger Fellwo Maria Kirchmair started out from Naples on a journey through the barely explored Mediterranean world as portrayed in Italian literature and film.

Apr. 9, 2024
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France is known for protests, but also for political states of emergency (états d'urgence) and police repression. Political scientist Katharina Fritsch is investigating the relationship between these aspects.

Jan. 9, 2024
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Katharina Fritsch

Lukas Anton Wein’s is conducting research in the competitive field of organic chemistry. To drive this forward the Schrödinger fellow joined the renowned Garg Lab at UCLA.

Nov. 24, 2023
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Why veterinarian Martim Kaps swapped his home of choice, Vienna, for the tranquil town of Hastings in Nebraska.

Sep. 28, 2023
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Martim Kaps

With the help of numerical simulations, mathematician and physicist Isabell Piantschitsch is exploring the structures of the sun's atmosphere.

Aug. 17, 2023
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Historian Dominik Gutmeyr-Schnur is breaking new ground by exploring the complexity of the Caucasus region.

June 29, 2023
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Historian Dominik Gutmeyr-Schnur