Finding Lost Star Siblings: Star Clusters Are Only the Tip of the Iceberg
“Clusters form big families of stars that can stay together for large parts of their lifetime. Today, we know of roughly a few thousand star…
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From the Big Bang to the Present: Gravity Is Why the Universe Is So Uniform
The temporal evolution of the universe, from the Big Bang to the present, is described by Einstein’s field equations of general relativity. However, there are…
New Fundamental Limits Beyond the Standard Laws of Thermodynamics Found in Maxwell’s Demon Experiment
Researchers at the Universities Vienna and Stuttgart have investigated a version of Maxwell’s demon embodied by a delayed feedback force acting on a levitated microparticle….
Migrations Reconstructed Through Ancient DNA: Each Mediterranean Island Has Its Own Genetic Pattern
The Mediterranean Sea has been a major route for maritime migrations as well as frequent trade and invasions during prehistory, yet the genetic history of…
A Quantum of Solid – New Macroscopic Quantum States
It is well known that quantum properties of individual atoms can be controlled and manipulated by laser light. Even large clouds of hundreds of millions…
Has Physics Ever Been Deterministic? New Insights on the Relationship Between Classical and Quantum Physics
Researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the University of Geneva, have proposed a new interpretation of classical physics without…
Biologists Discover That Flower Shapes Evolve to Adapt to Their Pollinators
Modularity Facilitates Rapid Adaptation of Single Floral Organs to Different Pollinators The first flowering plants originated more than 140 million years ago in the early…
The Fast Dance of Electron Spins – Spin-Flip Within Ten Femtoseconds
Chemists investigate the interactions of metal complexes and light. When a molecule is hit by light, in many cases a so-called “photoinduced” reaction is initiated….
‘An Experiment of Nature’ – Fossil Fish Gives New Insights Into Evolution After a Mass Extinction
An international research team led by Giuseppe Marramà from the Institute of Paleontology of the University of Vienna discovered a new and well-preserved fossil stingray…
Quantum Superposition Record: 2000 Atoms in Two Places at Once
The quantum superposition principle has been tested on a scale as never before in a new study by scientists at the University of Vienna in…
Complex Quantum Teleportation Achieved for the First Time
Austrian and Chinese scientists have succeeded in teleporting three-dimensional quantum states for the first time. High-dimensional teleportation could play an important role in future quantum…
Physicists’ Discovery Helps Theory of Quantum Gravity Move Forward
The theories of quantum mechanics and gravity are notorious for being incompatible, despite the efforts of scores of physicists over the past fifty years. However,…
Mechanical Forces Can Contribute to Gene Expression During Development
During embryonic development genetic cascades control gene activity and cell differentiation. In a new publication of the journal PNAS, the team of Ulrich Technau of…
Nanoparticle Temporarily Violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics
In a newly published study, an international team of researchers detail how they discovered that a nanoparticle trapped with laser light temporarily violates the second…
The Superconducting Pairing Mechanism in Calcium Doped Graphene Unveiled
A newly published study details how a team of researchers unveiled the superconducting pairing mechanism in Calcium doped graphene using the ARPES method. Whenever a…
A New Model of a Quantum Computer
In a newly published study, researchers from the University of Vienna detail a new model of a quantum computer, the boson sampling computer. Harnessing the…
Nano-Machines Recreate Principal Activities of Proteins
Using a high performance computing infrastructure, a team of researchers developed the first versatile and modular example of a fully artificial protein-mimetic model system that…
Realization of a “Gedankenexperiment”
A new study set to be published this week describes how physicists at the University of Vienna demonstrated in an experiment that the decision whether…