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Latest press releases

Tailor-made nanopores: Vienna team shapes "white graphene" at the atomic scale

10.09.2026 Press release

Microscopy image of hexagonal boron nitride.

Physics and chemistry unlock a wide range of applications through nanopore engineering

Archaea as "flexitarians": ammonia-oxidizing microbes also feed on amino acids

04.09.2026 Press release

The tiny helpers of marine sponges also use organic amino acids

Rising plant extinction rates on European mountain summits

03.09.2026 Press release

Picture of Rhododendron ferrugineum (rusty-leaved alpenrose) on the western slopes of Mount Schrankogel in Tyrol (Austria) in front of Bockkogel.

Rising species numbers mask increasing loss of high-elevation specialists from European summit vegetation

2 ERC Starting Grants for the University of Vienna

03.09.2026 Press release

Funding for sociologist specialising in economics Valentina Ausserladscheider and demographer Ester Lazzari

How plants use scoop-shaped pores to distribute their pollen efficiently

27.08.2026 Press release

Picture of a flower of Pleroma (Melastomataceae) with the scoop-bearing poricidal stamens in the center, visible as elongated white-purple structures.

New findings are particularly important in light of climate change, declines in bee abundance, and diversity

Roadmap of animal biodiversity: largest-ever comparison of chromosome-scale genomes

20.08.2026 Press release

Figure of 5,821 chromosome-scale animal genomes

Comparison of 4,454 animal species reveals how chromosomes travelled on "evolutionary Highways" over past 600 million years

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