November 2, 2018
Digital reconstruction of the two parvalbumin-expressing interneurons (red and yellow) and one granular cell (blue) and visualization of the synaptic connections (black & white photographs). Credit: Espinoza et. al.
When you park in the office car park, you usually have...
October 23, 2018
Yesterday, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, President of the ERC, announced in the context of his keynote speech at a conference on the occasion of Austria’s Presidency of the EU Council that the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) has, with 48%,...
October 18, 2018
Angelika Amon, Professor in Cancer Research at MIT and member of the Scientific Board of IST Austria, is one of five life scientists who will receive a 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. The award, which comes with a $3 million...
October 12, 2018
(c) by Raffaela Pröll, 2018
Since 2013, the Wissen schaf[f]t Zukunft Prize has been awarded once a year by the NÖ Forschungs- und Bildungsges.m.b.H. (NFB) for scientific theses (master's/diploma theses and dissertations). This year's winner is Johannes Reiter from...
October 11, 2018
(c) by Franz&Sue │Maurer & Partner
Since the opening of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) in 2009, a campus for the natural sciences, mathematics and computer sciences has been set up in Lower Austria, just...
October 9, 2018
Antirrhinum majus (c) by David Field
Snapdragons are charming tall plants, and flower in a range of bright colors. In Spain, where snapdragons grow wild, these flower colors show a remarkable pattern: When driving up a road from Barcelona...
October 9, 2018
Ants clean their nest box with formic acid. Special paper that turns pink on contact with acids was used to see when and how much formic acid the ants spray. © Christopher Pull
Ants are neat: when...
October 3, 2018
(c) by Karl Riedling
The Fritz Kohlrausch Award was established in 1955, and is given out biennially by the Austrian Physical Society (ÖPG) to young scientists for outstanding research in experimental physics. This year’s winner is Johannes Fink, a...
October 1, 2018
Just a few Shigella bacteria are enough to make anyone catch gastroenteritis, while to get sick from Cholera, thousands to millions of Vibrio cholerae bacteria have to be swallowed. Why does the dose needed to cause disease differ so much between...
September 21, 2018
Nature Index yesterday published the results of a study aimed at identifying those institutions and countries that are in the fast lane scientifically. The positive result: Austria is among the six countries in the world with the highest absolute and...
