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Public research university in Vienna, Austria, one of Europe's oldest, with active research across life sciences, physics, and data science.
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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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