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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The goal is to enable experiment-guided AlphaFold to predict how heterogeneous a molecular structure will be, which in turn will generate a dataset for retraining the tool. “Each newly modeled ...

Hundreds of genes have been linked to autism, yet the precise molecular and cellular mechanisms behind it remain largely unclear. A new study published in Nature, led by Gaia Novarino at the Institute ...