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

Magnetfelder gibt es in vielen Sternen. Doch noch ist zu wenig über sie bekannt, um sie zuverlässig in Modelle der Sternentwicklung einzubeziehen – was deren Genauigkeit begrenzt. Eine neue Studie von ...

The only known supernova remnant of its kind in the Milky Way has an unexpectedly intricate structure: chains of gas knots resembling pearls on a string, each wide enough to fit the solar system ...

First light on the ELT is nominally three years away. Time is ticking for us to start thinking about how to best use the ELT. The Austrian Academy of Science is financing a series of 5 yearly meetings ...

Sand may seem simple, but for scientists it is one of nature’s trickiest materials to model. At the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), researchers are reimagining sand one grain at a ...

For almost 15 years, researchers have been creating three-dimensional biological microstructures known as organoids—from heart and gut models to brain models. These allow for the study of specific ...

Little red dots have puzzled astronomers since their discovery in JWST data from the Universe’s deep past. Their ‘powering engines’ might resemble a newly discovered phenomenon dubbed a “black hole ...

The cerebral cortex is densely packed with different nerve cells that enable us to perceive, think and act. Yet how these cell types arise while the brain develops is still not fully understood. Irene ...

During ketamine anesthesia, the brain’s nerve cells fall silent—as consciousness returns, they begin to reconnect. For the first time, researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria ...

Driving an electric current through a molecule can create a magnetic field. Yet in practice, such fields are often too weak to be detected experimentally. Through theoretical modeling, researchers at ...

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 ...