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How a salt giant radically reshaped Mediterranean marine biodiversity

A new study paves the way to understanding biotic recovery after an ecological crisis in the Mediterranean Sea about 5.5 million years ago.
27-Aug-2024 6:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Scientific consensus can strengthen pro-climate attitudes in society

Climate scientists have long agreed that humans are largely responsible for climate change. A new study, co-led by Bojana Većkalov from the University of Amsterdam and Sandra Geiger from the University of Vienna, finds that communicating the...
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'Molecular Compass' points way to Reduction of Animal Testing

In recent years, machine learning models have become increasingly popular for risk assessment of chemical compounds. However, they are often considered 'black boxes' due to their lack of transparency, leading to scepticism among toxicologists and...
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Searching old stem cells that stay young forever

The sea anemone Nematostella vectensis is potentially immortal. Using molecular genetic methods, developmental biologists led by Ulrich Technau from the University of Vienna have now identified possible candidates for multipotent stem cells in the...
19-Aug-2024 5:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Newly discovered ability of comammox bacteria could help reduce nitrous oxide emissions in agriculture

An international research team led by the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS) at the University of Vienna has discovered that comammox bacteria, first identified by them in 2015, can grow using guanidine, a...
14-Aug-2024 6:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Visiting an Art Exhibition can make you think more socially and openly. But for How long?

A new study by an international team of collaborators led by researchers at the University of Vienna, and in collaboration with the Dom Museum Wien, aimed to address the questions of whether art exhibitions can make us more empathic or even change...
6-Aug-2024 6:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

"Holiday" or "vacation": Similar language leads to more cooperation

"Holiday" or "vacation", "to start" or "to begin", "my friend’s cat" or "the cat of my friend" – in our language, there are different ways of expressing the same things and concepts. But can the choice of a particular variant determine whether...
30-Jul-2024 6:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Nonreciprocal interactions go nonlinear

Using two optically trapped glass nanoparticles, researchers observed a novel collective Non-Hermitian and nonlinear dynamic driven by nonreciprocal interactions. This contribution expands traditional optical levitation with tweezer arrays by...
24-Jul-2024 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites


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