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Recognising the similarity between notes played in different octaves is an important skill for music and language development. A…

In the extensively researched Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, a team of researchers, including OeAW historians, has…

Can and must autonomous vehicles make ethical decisions? Edmond Awad, founder of "The Moral Machine", will report on an unusual…

Martin Steskal succeeds Sabine Ladstätter, who has lead the renowned Austrian excavations in western Türkiye since 2010.

In Lower Austria, a local winegrower has discovered mammoth bones that are approximately 30,000 to 40,000 years old. It is the most…

Europe's science academies are appealing to future MEPs to promote science and research more strongly in order to secure the…

Icebergs on the Bosporus and a frozen Black Sea: an international study involving the University of Bern and the Austrian Academy of…

In the COSINUS research project, an international team including the Technical University Vienna (TU Wien) and the Austrian Academy…

New performance agreement concluded - Academy receives 529.2 million euros for the next three years. OeAW President Heinz Faßmann:…

US biochemist becomes new director of IMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna

Archaeologists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) are working with an international team of experts to investigate a…

This has been successfully demonstrated by scientists at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and TU Wien during a flight in cooperation…

OeAW President Heinz Faßmann: "We are looking for essays discussing Austria as a research location". The best submissions will be…

New excavations by archaeologists of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Greek Ministry of Culture in Kleidi-Samikon in the…

Loss of trust is a central problem ++ Members of the public want political independence of science and the media ++ Importance of…

A recent study by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) shows that the majority of Austrians do not believe that climate change can…

Social anthropologist Judith Bovensiepen and cultural scientist Ariane Sadjed have each been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the…

Researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences have published a new radiocarbon dataset for Tel Gezer, one of the most important…

EASAC Secretariat located at the Austrian Academy of Sciences as of 1 January 2024.

Since the attack by the radical Islamist group Hamas, antisemitic prejudices are on the rise, extending to open hatred towards Jews.…

Ferenc Krausz, Anne L’Huillier, Anton Zeilinger and many more: members of the OeAW frequently grace the Nobel Prize awards ceremony…

Researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, together with colleagues from Max Perutz Labs and St. Anna Children's Cancer…

Researchers in Vienna have obtained the world’s first gene sequences of the human roundworm from the Bronze Age, as well as the first…

The Erich Schmid Institute for Material Sciences of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Leoben can significantly expand its…

With the use of computer-vision technologies, researchers at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) have been able to recover a…

Global warming is changing plant communities on mountain summits worldwide. In the South American Andes, the longest mountain range…

The most prominent person of the Iberian Copper Age was not a man, as previously assumed, but a woman. In cooperation with the…

Recently, several research groups in the U.S., Israel and China have reported progress in developing embryo models from human stem…

Free science is the foundation for a society that is socially just, economically balanced and ecologically sustainable. Following…

Two young adult men were infected with the plague pathogen in the Bronze Age 4,000 years ago. This is what a research team led by the…

Black-capped chickadees pay attention to the correct “sentence structure” when communicating with conspecifics and they can…

Scientific breakthroughs in organoid and chromatin research. Faßmann: "Institute is a model of excellence in Austrian science".

Rising global hunger for rare minerals is driving commercial interest in deep-sea mining and its potential exploitation on a massive…

The annual report of the Academy looks back at the highlights of 2022.

It is an important piece of the jigsaw puzzle in New Testament history and one of the oldest textual witnesses of the Gospels: a…

Especially in times of climate change green genetic offers many opportunities. Nevertheless it is still a subject of controversial…