Public research university in Vienna, Austria, one of Europe's oldest, with active research across life sciences, physics, and data science.
University of Vienna physicists recovered an ultrathin magnet's internal pattern and an 81-nanometer sensor height from external field maps. The authors say other imaging techniques can adopt the principle, though the test used one material and one sensor type.
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University of Vienna chemists turned waste polystyrene into a sponge that adsorbs water at 20% of its own weight in dry, desert-like conditions. The same route worked on CD polycarbonate, LEGO plastic and one mixed batch, though long-term performance is still being assessed.
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University of Vienna researchers report an ancient DNA reshuffling that brought separate gene regions into contact in coleoid cephalopods. The Nature Communications paper proposes the new contacts may have helped drive their unusually complex nervous systems.
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Wild African savanna elephants gesture intentionally, finds an Animal Cognition study that logged about 840 gestures in two South African parks. Its behavioural tests of intent put elephants, a lineage evolutionarily distant from primates, beside the apes in research on how gesture evolved.
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University of Vienna researchers link a genome reshuffle from hundreds of millions of years ago to the complex brains of octopuses, squid and cuttlefish. Their data place the most changeable DNA loops near nervous-system genes, an association no experiment has yet tested.
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University of Vienna researchers filmed two Asgard archaea strains crawling on protrusions, a motion previously known only in eukaryotic cells. The team argues that such motility may predate complex cells, a timing claim that so far rests on two lab strains.
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Johannes Kirchmair's Vienna team built SBBE, a Bayesian check that scores large datasets against Benford's law and flags ones needing scrutiny. Its authors pitch it as triage, picking which data gets a human look before it feeds drug-discovery AI models.
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A Science Advances study of more than 5,800 chromosome-scale assemblies places animal genomes in a single coordinate system. The mechanism it leans on cannot be reversed.
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A Sheffield Hallam and Curtin team paired mineral grain dating with simulations of last-glaciation ice sheets. The models let ice carry the six-tonne sandstone to the North Sea and leave the rest of the 700 km to people.
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A Vienna-led comparison of three Clusia species finds all three are ancient polyploids whose duplicated genes for night-time CO2 storage were lost, switched off or given new jobs. The paper is in Nature Communications.
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The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities reports a young male horse buried with harness fittings inside a New Kingdom fort in the western Nile Delta, where tablets also name Ramesses II and Merneptah. Researchers not on the dig say horse remains from Pharaonic Egypt are scarce.
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Buzz-pollination biomechanics has mostly measured how hard a flower shakes. A Vienna group measured when each part of a stamen moves, and found the anther able to work against its own stalk.
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For nearly twenty years, triangular pores in hexagonal boron nitride were credited to the electron beam. A Vienna group ran the irradiation in ultra-high vacuum instead, got circles, and then dialled the triangles back in with a little oxygen.
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The strained three-carbon ring has long been a plausible stand-in for a gem-dimethylamine. The obstacle was installing it on a molecule that already has chemistry on it, and a Vienna group now reports a mild way in.
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The result is mathematical rather than measured: entangle each electron with an ion, combine across electrons, and fewer electrons buy the same signal. No factor is stated anywhere.
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A PNAS study built on twenty years of dating finds burial speed is the main control on how much time a single sediment layer mixes together. Neighbouring shells can be centuries apart.
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A Vienna-led team used petrography and neutron activation analysis to fix the origin of Qurayyah Painted Ware, then argued the 3,200-year-old export functioned as a producer brand.
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A 459-person study followed over ten years reports that expectations of decline come before thinner social lives, not after them. That ordering is what makes them targetable.
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