How do bacteria adapt when resources run low? ISTA researchers have found that, under starvation stress, E. coli can use ...

D-printed thermoelectric materials and expansion microscopy of brain tissue—these are the contributions that earned two ...

Pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, and agrochemicals are produced industrially using a wide range of chemical reactions. These ...

Louis Pasteur and Pierre Curie dreamed of directing chiral symmetry breaking using external magnetic and electric fields. [Chem. Rev. 1998, 98, 2391] Their attempts failed due to time-inversion ...

In 2024, malignant tumors caused more than 21,300 deaths in Austria, 4.7 percent more than in 2014. Faced with a similarly pressing global challenge, scientists are striving to better understand what ...

This September, Monica Vișan joins the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) as Professor and Vivian Kuperberg and Yuval Wigderson join as Assistant Professors. Their research ranges from ...

The MIT Technology Review has named Charles Roques-Carmes, a French physicist at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), to its Innovators Under 35 list. The highly competitive annual ...

The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) is growing and so is the number of PhD students starting each year. On September 15, 2026, the Institute kicked off its academic year by ...

In recent years, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) methods have begun to play a more and more enabling role in the sciences and in industry. In particular, the advent of large and ...

Living cells perform remarkable functions that are powered through biomolecular networks that interact and react in crowded cellular environments. Many biomolecules are highly dynamic, fluctuating ...