Magnetic fields exist in many stars, including the Sun. Yet they remain too poorly understood to be reliably included in ...

A protein complex that normally puts the brakes on genes may also be crucial for reproduction in plants, according to new ...

Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen visited the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) on October 21, 2026. During a tour of the campus and discussions with ISTA leadership, ...

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Georgios Katsaros, a professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), has won a highly competitive European Research Council Advanced Grant worth 2.8 million Euro for a project ...

Future quantum computing will require correlations between distant modules—a feature known as distributed entanglement. Traditionally, such entanglement has relied on active control and repeated ...

Ant colonies operate as tightly coordinated “superorganisms” with individual ants working together, much like the cells of a body, to ensure colony health. Researchers at the Institute of Science and ...

This year, the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) boasts some impressive numbers at its annual graduation ceremony. Fifty-five PhD graduates and three MSc graduates celebrate their ...

This article is a work of science fiction and was published on April Fools’ Day. Always keep a critical mind to distinguish between fake news and scientific fact. In a landmark achievement that ...

Too little snowfall is now also shaking the foundations of some of the world’s most resilient ‘water towers’, a new study led by the Pellicciotti group at the Institute of Science and Technology ...

The Ig Nobel Prize honors research that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. Its 35th award ceremony possibly also makes people hungry: ISTA physicist Fabrizio Olmeda and colleagues ...