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Long-standing marine mystery solved: How algae get nitrogen to grow

In a new study, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Vienna shed light on an unexpected partnership: A marine diatom and a bacterium that can account for a large share...
27-Jun-2024 5:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

The "Queen of the Night" does not whistle

Opera singers have to use the extreme limits of their voice range. Many pedagogical and scientific sources suggest that the highest pitches reached in classical singing can only be produced with a so-called "whistle" voice register, in analogy to...
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Quantum entanglement measures Earth rotation

A team of researchers led by Philip Walther at the University of Vienna carried out a pioneering experiment where they measured the effect of the rotation of Earth on quantum entangled photons.
13-Jun-2024 6:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Galactic Bloodlines: Many Nearby Star Clusters Originate from Only Three "Families"

An international team of astronomers led by the University of Vienna has deciphered the formation history of young star clusters, some of which we can see with the naked eye at night.
10-Jun-2024 12:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Uptake of tire wear additives by vegetables grown for human consumption

Car tires contain hundreds of chemical additives that can leach out of them. This is how they end up in crops and subsequently in the food chain. Researchers at the Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science at the University of...
5-Jun-2024 5:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Groundbreaking Progress in Quantum Physics: How Quantum Field Theories Decay and Fission

An international research team around Marcus Sperling, a researcher at the Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, has sparked interest in the scientific community with pioneering results in quantum physics: In their current study, the researchers...
3-Jun-2024 5:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Breaking bonds to form bonds: Rethinking the Chemistry of Cations

A team of chemists from the University of Vienna, led by Nuno Maulide, has achieved a significant breakthrough in the field of chemical synthesis, developing a novel method for manipulating carbon-hydrogen bonds. This groundbreaking discovery...
14-May-2024 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Nature's 3D printer: bristle worms form bristles piece by piece

A new interdisciplinary study led by molecular biologist Florian Raible from the Max Perutz Labs at the University of Vienna provides exciting insights into the bristles of the marine annelid worm Platynereis dumerilii. Specialized cells, so-called...
10-May-2024 1:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites


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