Disciplines must be integrated to successfully conserve biodiversity
Innovation arises through the transfer of research results into practice.
Plants & Animals
Aug 4, 2021
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University of Vienna
From chemical graphs to structures
3D configurations of atoms dictate all materials properties. Quantitative predictions of accurate equilibrium structures, 3D coordinates of all atoms, from a chemical graph, a representation of the structural formula, is ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 28, 2021
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Approaching the Heisenberg limit
A football is not a quantum particle. There are crucial differences between the things we know from everyday life and tiny quantum objects. Quantum phenomena are usually very fragile. To study them, one normally uses only ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 14, 2021
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Human environmental genome recovered in the absence of skeletal remains
Ancient sediments from caves have already been proven to preserve DNA for thousands of years. The amount of recovered sequences from environmental sediments, however, is generally low, which confounds the analyses performed ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 12, 2021
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Researchers investigate acidobacteria survival in extreme soil conditions
Soils are one of the most diverse habitats on the planet. There are more than thousand microbial species per gram that significantly influence numerous environmental processes. However, the majority of these organisms are ...
Ecology
Jul 7, 2021
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The evolution of axial patterning
Body axes are molecular coordinate systems along which regulatory genes are activated. These genes then activate the development of anatomical structures in correct locations in the embryo. Thus, the body ensures that we ...
Evolution
Jun 29, 2021
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Asian elephants shown to 'buzz' their lips to squeak
Everybody knows that elephants trumpet. Over the past decades research at the University of Vienna has mainly studied the elephants' low-frequency rumble. Its fundamental frequency reaches into the infrasonic range below ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 23, 2021
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Atomic-scale tailoring of graphene approaches macroscopic world
Properties of materials are often defined by imperfections in their atomic structure, especially when the material itself is just one atom thick, such as graphene. Researchers at the University of Vienna have now developed ...
Nanophysics
Jun 18, 2021
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Quantum-nonlocality at all speeds
The phenomenon of quantum nonlocality defies our everyday intuition. It shows the strong correlations between several quantum particles some of which change their state instantaneously when the others are measured, regardless ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 16, 2021
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Making a meal of DNA in the seafloor
While best known as the code for genetic information, DNA is also a nutrient for specialized microbes. An international team of researchers led by Kenneth Wasmund and Alexander Loy from the University of Vienna has discovered ...
Ecology
Jun 15, 2021
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