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Pink Skies
ISTA researchers present new brain organoid model
April 3, 2025
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Scientists Revive Extinct Dodo
Revolutionary breakthrough: 300 years after extinction, the Raphus species returns to life
April 1, 2025
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How Sleep Keeps Our Memories Fresh
Neural patterns reorganize during sleep to boost recollection
March 24, 2025
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The First World Day for Glaciers
Interview with ISTA Professor Francesca Pellicciotti
March 21, 2025
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Hardware-Optimal Quantum Algorithms
ISTA PhD student spearheads efforts in tailoring algorithms to quantum hardware
March 18, 2025
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Updating the Textbook
ISTA scientists revise our knowledge about the auxin signaling mechanism in plants
March 5, 2025
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Cooling Materials–Out of the 3D Printer
ISTA researchers 3D print high-performance, sustainable thermoelectric materials
February 20, 2025
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An Electrifying Turn in an Age-Old Quest
Contact electrification depends on materials’ contact history, ISTA physicists show
February 19, 2025
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When Qubits Learn the Language of Fiberoptics
ISTA physicists achieve optical readout of superconducting qubits
February 11, 2025
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Video Optimization in Our Brain
ISTA scientists uncover how the brain unblurs vision during movement
February 10, 2025
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ISTA Labs Certified as Sustainable
LEAF certification for more responsible research
February 7, 2025
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Dancing Bubbles Model a Cosmic Disaster
Quantum machine models how “false vacuum” decays into “dancing” cosmic bubbles
February 5, 2025
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The Globetrotter
New insight into the painted lady butterfly’s annual migration
February 4, 2025
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ISTA Welcomes Three Faculty Members
Samara Ren, Michael Sammler, and Latha Venkataraman join the ISTA faculty
January 30, 2025
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Many Roads Lead to… the Embryo
ISTA shows evolution had many optimal outcomes to choose from
January 22, 2025
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Neural Magic Acquired by Red Hat
ISTA’s First Startup Collaboration Achieves Milestone Exit in AI Technology
January 20, 2025
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The Megadroughts Are Upon Us
Forty-year study: Extreme droughts will become more frequent, severe, and extensive
January 16, 2025
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“Ask the Science Grandma!”
New offers at ISTA for women (60+) and children (6-12 years)
January 2, 2025
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Three Faculty Promotions in 2024
Anna Kicheva, Caroline Muller, and Florian Schur were promoted to professors
December 27, 2024
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AI Residency for Francesco Locatello
ISTA Assistant Professor partners with Chan Zuckerberg Initiative as AI Resident
December 16, 2024
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Distinct Nerve Wiring of Human Memory
ISTA biologists team up with neurosurgeons to unravel the human brain’s specificities
December 11, 2024
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Obituary: Claus J. Raidl
ISTA mourns guiding force of the Institute
December 10, 2024
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Love Thy Neighbor
How neighborhood enhances cooperation
December 6, 2024
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No Economic Upswing without Research
Joint appeal by Austrian research institutions and funding agencies to government
December 5, 2024
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Allen Distinguished Investigator at ISTA
ISTA Professor Anđela Šarić to lead a $1.5 million-funded project on active membranes
December 3, 2024
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A Matter of Time
New ISTA research shows how tissue development is temporally organized
November 27, 2024
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New Era in Amphibian Biology
ISTA scientists use harmless viruses to investigate the nervous system in frogs
November 26, 2024
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ELLIS: Enabling Excellence in AI Research
ELLIS Unit Vienna at ISTA to push AI foundations and applications in science
November 21, 2024
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Seeing Memories Form
ISTA scientists take a deep look into memory processing inside the hippocampus
November 20, 2024
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Bringing Quantum Mechanics to Life
New ISTA assistant professor Julian Léonard makes abstract quantum properties visible
November 12, 2024
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Hard in Theory, Easy in Practice
ISTA researchers investigate why graph isomorphism algorithms seem so effective
November 6, 2024
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High-Tech Inventor to Further ML in Science
Machine learning expert, electrical engineer, and inventor Alex Bronstein joins ISTA faculty
October 30, 2024
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Dandelion-Shaped Supernova
ISTA astronomer Ilaria Caiazzo helps model a unique historical supernova in 3D
October 25, 2024
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Understanding Impacts of Mutations
ISTA scientists propose a novel framework to study “polygenic” diseases
October 24, 2024
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Evolution in Real Time
ISTA scientists predict—and witness—evolution in a 30-year marine snail experiment
October 11, 2024
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From Chaos to Structure
How a bunch of seemingly disorganized cells go on to form a robust embryo
October 10, 2024
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One Million Euro Funding
ISTA researcher receives NOMIS Grant
October 9, 2024
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Cluster of Excellent Brains
ISTA neuroscience part of FWF Cluster of Excellence with 21 million Euro research funding
October 4, 2024
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Ylva Götberg Named to TIME100 Next
ISTA Assistant Professor Ylva Götberg named to TIME’s list of 100 emerging leaders
October 2, 2024
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A Centralized Database of All Math
A Mathlib developer at ISTA: Graduate student Martin Dvořák’s ‘side-project’
September 27, 2024
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Austria’s Math Award to Matthew Kwan
Austrian Mathematical Society recognizes Kwan’s contributions
September 26, 2024
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A Viral Close-Up
HTLV-1: A unique virus
September 25, 2024
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Exploring the Future of AI
Recap of the fully booked bigX 2024 by ISTA, xista, and IV
September 23, 2024
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76 New PhD Students at ISTA
28 countries represented in the Institute’s largest PhD cohort to date
September 20, 2024
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A Neuroscience Network Across Continents
From Imbizo–a computational neuroscience summer school in South Africa–to ISTA
September 18, 2024
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Big Algebras: Dictionary of Abstract Math
Abstract algebra and algebraic geometry to connect quantum physics with number theory
September 12, 2024
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Cells, Data, Stars: New ERC Projects at ISTA
EU funding for recipients Lisa Bugnet, Alicia Michael, and Marco Mondelli
September 5, 2024
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A Very “Clean Room”
Take a glimpse into ISTA’s Nanofabrication Facility
September 4, 2024
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Star Lives and Afterlives
ISTA welcomes stellar evolution specialist Ilaria Caiazzo as an assistant professor
August 27, 2024

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Detlef Lohse, University of Twente
Apr 14, 2025
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Cohomological integrality for quotient stacks Cohomological integrality for quotient stacks
Lucien Hennecart, University of Edinburgh
Apr 10, 2025
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Characters and Langlands parameters of smooth representations of p-adic groups Characters and Langlands parameters of smooth representations of p-adic groups
Dan Ciubotaru, University of Oxford
Apr 17, 2025
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Nonlocality and anisotropy in inverse problems Nonlocality and anisotropy in inverse problems
Angkana Rüland, University of Bonn
May 7, 2025
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Lattice and Superlattice Engineering of Quantum Materials Lattice and Superlattice Engineering of Quantum Materials
Aravind Devarakonda | Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Columbia University
May 15, 2025
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Interaction of the local Langlands program with the generalized Springer correspondence Interaction of the local Langlands program with the generalized Springer correspondence
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May 15, 2025
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May 26, 2025
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Hamiltonian estimation in semiconductor spin qubits Hamiltonian estimation in semiconductor spin qubits
Jeroen Danon, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
May 27, 2025
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Jun 17, 2025
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Recessed microelectrodes as a platform to investigate the intrinsic redox process of Prussian blue analogs for energy storage application

Nomnotho Jiyane, Carla Santana Santos, Igor Echevarria Poza, Mario Palacios Corella, Muhammad Adib Abdillah Mahbub, Gimena Marin-Tajadura, Thomas Quast, Maria Ibáñez, Edgar Ventosa, Wolfgang Schuhmann

Batteries and Supercaps 2025

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Mathematische Zeitschrift 2025

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Can quasars, triggered by mergers, account for NANOGrav’s stochastic gravitational wave background?

Ágnes Kis-Tóth, Zoltán Haiman, Zsolt Frei

Classical and Quantum Gravity 2025

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BCS critical temperature on half-spaces

Barbara Roos, Robert Seiringer

Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 2025

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Polyploidization leads to salt stress resilience via ethylene signaling in citrus plants

Xin Song, Miao Zhang, Ting Ting Wang, Yao Yuan Duan, Jie Ren, Hu Gao, Yan Jie Fan, Qiang Ming Xia, Hui Xiang Cao, Kai Dong Xie, Xiao Meng Wu, Fei Zhang, Si Qi Zhang, Ying Huang, Adnane Boualem, Abdelhafid Bendahmane, Feng Quan Tan, Wen Wu Guo

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Understanding the machinery that reads the genome

Carrie A Bernecky

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 2025

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Neuroendocrine control of synaptic transmission by PHAC-1 in C. elegans

Aikaterini Stratigi, Miguel Soler-García, Mia Krout, Shikha Shukla, Mario De Bono, Janet E. Richmond, Patrick Laurent

Journal of Neuroscience 2025

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Latent Ewald summation for machine learning of long-range interactions

Bingqing Cheng

npj Computational Materials 2025

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