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14.02.2018

Adriatic Sea basin revisited

Rafal Nawrot did his PhD on biodiversity dynamics in molluscan communities in the Mediterranean at the Department of Palaeontology of the University...

06.02.2018

Under sweat and pressure: Rock dating in Thailand

Around the world geologists collect samples with a hammer and a chisel to learn more about how the System Earth works and evolves. Urs Klötzli swaps...

01.02.2018

Beyond the materiality of urban spaces

Urban planner and geographer Sandra Guinand received a Back-to-Research Grant of the University of Vienna in 2017, that aims to support female...

19.01.2018

In the footsteps of a dinosaur

A recent agreement on collaboration between the Faculty of Sciences, University of Tunis El Manar and the Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and...

13.12.2017

Waves at depth

Developing methods for detecting remnants of nuclear tests using seismic waves in the underground is the goal of an interdisciplinary WWTF-funded...

17.11.2017

the Sun's chromosphere

Mass loss in red giant stars

Postdoctoral astrophysicist Gioia Rau looks at the driving forces of the mass loss process in evolved stars. The winds that carry this mass outward...

15.11.2017

Rockslide in mountains

What happens inside a landslide?

New Marie Curie fellow Katalin Gillemot applies granular physics knowledge and coding skills to enhance prediction models for natural hazards. The...

23.10.2017

Formation of Magma Oceans on exoplanet

Induction heating can completely change the energy budget of an exoplanet and even melt its interior. In a study published by Nature Astronomy an...

12.06.2017

Signing ceremony

Chinese satellite image data from Austria

In October last year our Faculty's Department of Geography and Regional Research and the Satellite Surveying and Mapping Application Center of the...

30.05.2017

Coastline and ocean

Detective stories from the North Atlantic Ocean

Sedimentologist Kateřina Schöpfer received one of the Back-to-Research Grants of the University of Vienna in 2016, which aim to support female...

04.05.2017

Austrian research institutions launch major initiative to assess the effects of extreme climatic events on the environment

Under the leadership of the Environmental Sciences Research Network of the University of Vienna, the key national actors in long-term ecological...

07.04.2017

How stars are born

500 hours of observation at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in the Atacama Desert: an outstanding opportunity for astronomers João Alves and...

28.02.2017

2.95-billion-year-old fossil stromatolite of the Pongola Supergroup

How the earliest life on Earth became mineralised

Ancient rocks in the Pilbara region of Western Australia might serve as the earliest signatures of life on Earth. A number of studies suggest that...

09.01.2017

Orion A molecular cloud

Vienna survey allows a deep insight into massive star factory of Orion

The Orion A molecular cloud is home to thousands of young stars and the nearest known massive star factory, lying about 1,350 light-years from Earth....

07.11.2016

The birth of massive stars is accompanied by strong luminosity bursts

Astronomers of the Universities of Tübingen and Vienna are investigating the basic principles of the formation of stars - "How do massive stars form?"...

02.09.2016

How Archaea Capture Copper from Soils

Ammonia oxidizing archaea play an important role in the nitrogen cycle on Earth. In order to oxidize ammonia to nitrite, the single-celled...

01.09.2016

How to Operate Wind Turbines in Frosty Winter

Icing events at wind turbines can cause a shutdown of the energy production. In order to optimise operation management of wind farms in winter...

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