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- How extremophilic bacteria survive in space for one year https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/microbial-space-travel-on-a-molecular-scale/ 27 comments
- Quantum physics at a distance http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/quantum-physics-at-a-distance/ 16 comments
- Research demonstrates for the first time that babies as young as 3 months can perceive their own heartbeat. The perception of internal body signals is closely linked to emotional awareness, mental health, and self-perception. https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/en/media/recent-press-releases/detailansicht-en/artikel/perceiving-ones-own-body-already-babies-sense-their-heartbeat-and-breathing/?mtm_campaign=presse&mtm_kwd=ea 2 comments science
- Many people are bored by spiritual practice - study of 5 typical spiritual contexts (yoga, meditation, silent retreats, Catholic sermons and pilgrimages) show that boredom develops when we feel over-challenged or under-challenged, deem the value of the activity low or lack personal relevance. https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/en/media/recent-press-releases/detailansicht-en/artikel/yawn-many-people-are-bored-by-spiritual-practice/ 9 comments science
- Emphasizing the strengths of socio-economically disadvantaged students boosts their self-confidence and academic performance, leading to better grades https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/en/media/recent-press-releases/detailansicht-en/artikel/recognizing-the-strengths-of-socio-economically-disadvantaged-students-leads-to-better-grades/ 11 comments science
- For the first time, a study found that students are actually very bored during exams, and boredom has a negative effect on results. Main causes were being underchallenged or overchallenged during exam. Test boredom was significantly higher when exam content had no personal relevance for students. https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/en/media/recent-press-releases/detailansicht-en/artikel/surprising-study-results-students-are-bored-during-exams/ 288 comments science
- Researchers have conducted experiments showing that, contrary to popular intuition, people perceive emotions and intentions when viewing art even when they know the work was generated by a computer, but human-made art gets more positive reviews https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/en/media/recent-press-releases/detailansicht-en/artikel/people-experience-emotions-with-computer-generated-art/ 13 comments science
- Dogs’ brains perceive faces and bodies just like human brains do, however for dogs’ brain there are also differences in activation in areas responsible for processing smells https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/en/media/recent-press-releases/detailansicht-en/artikel/like-human-like-dog/ 6 comments science
- Loneliness, or lack of social contact, physically drains people of energy. Research found a lack of social contact “induces a craving response in our brains comparable to hunger, which motivates us to reconnect" https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/en/media/recent-press-releases/detailansicht-en/artikel/tired-of-being-alone-how-social-isolation-impacts-on-our-energy/ 578 comments science
- Chlamydiae, known as bacterial pathogens of humans, ‘have been infecting host cells for over a billion years of evolutionary history’ (DOI: 10.1038/s41564-022-01284-9) https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/en/media/recent-press-releases/detailansicht-en/artikel/chlamydiae-expand-our-view-on-how-intracellular-bacteria-evolve/ 4 comments science
- Online art viewing can improve well-being. Effects are similar to those of visits to physical art galleries or even nature experiences. https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/media/actual-press-releases/detailansicht/artikel/online-art-viewing-can-improve-well-being/ 5 comments science
- Parasitic worms reveal new insights into the evolution of sex and sex chromosomes https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/parasitic-worms-reveal-new-insights-into-the-evolution-of-sex-and-sex-chromosomes/ 6 comments science
- Too much self-confidence can endanger health. Older people who overestimate their health go to the doctor less often. This can have serious consequences, when illnesses are detected too late. By contrast, people who think they are sicker than they actually are visit the doctor more often. https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/too-much-self-confidence-can-endanger-health/ 26 comments science
- Synthesis of a single layer of the high temperature vdW-layered β-CuI material at ambient conditions is made possible by using graphene encapsulation https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/impossible-material-made-possible-inside-a-graphene-sandwich/ 3 comments science
- Robots learn faster with quantum technology: photonic quantum processor trained as a routing agent, learns to route single photons significantly faster than its classical counterpart would have https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/robots-learn-faster-with-quantum-technology/ 4 comments artificial
- Scientists have quantified a dramatic biodiversity collapse of up to 95 per cent of native species in the Eastern Mediterranean. Global warming has led to an increase in sea temperatures beyond those temperatures that Mediterranean species can sustain. https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/native-biodiversity-collapse-in-the-eastern-mediterranean/ 10 comments science
- Gravity alone causes the homogeneity of the universe; there's now no need to assume the existence of cosmic "inflation" https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/gravity-causes-homogeneity-of-the-universe/ 4 comments space
- Gravity alone causes the homogeneity of the universe; there's now no need to assume the existence of cosmic "inflation" https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/gravity-causes-homogeneity-of-the-universe/ 7 comments science
- The Austrian Academy of Science, the University of Vienna, and the University of Science and Technology of China have experimentally demonstrated teleporting complex high-dimensional quantum states. https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/qutrit-complex-quantum-teleportation-achieved-for-the-first-time/ 3 comments science
- Antidepressant treatment, not only depression per se, can lead to reductions in behavioral and neural responses to pain empathy. Results show that antidepressant treatment can lead to impaired empathy regarding perception of pain, and not just the state of depression itself. https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/antidepressants-can-reduce-the-empathic-empathy/ 20 comments science
- One step closer to complex quantum teleportation with novel complex quantum entanglement generated in the laboratory for the first time. Physicists use more complex quantum systems as qubits to increase the information capacity with the same number of particles, as reported in Nature Photonics. https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/komplexer-quantenteleportation-einen-schritt-naeher-1/ 12 comments science
- Cognitive biologists tested cockatoos in a task to choose the correct "key" to insert into a "keyhole" in a box. The cockatoos were not only able to select the correct key but also required fewer placement attempts to align simple shapes than primates in a similar study. http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/the-key-to-a-nut/ 6 comments science
- A research team (Zeilinger et al) has created corkscrews of light which transmitted data at 100 terabits/second over 143 km in real world conditions http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/new-records-set-up-with-screws-of-light/ 16 comments science
- The eye is listening: When people are listening to music, their emotional reactions to the music are reflected in changes in their pupil size. Researchers find that both the emotional content of the music and the listeners’ personal involvement with music influence pupil dilation. http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/its-music-to-my-eyes/ 8 comments science
- Azure-winged magpies take any opportunity to provide food to their group members, even without receiving any reward themselves. A team of cognitive biologists showed this type of prosocial behavior in a bird species for the first time - very few other animals show such human-like generosity. http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/azure-winged-magpies-show-human-like-generosity/ 22 comments science
- Larger brains do not lead to high IQs - The brain structure is more important than the size http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/larger-brains-do-not-lead-to-high-iqs/ 9 comments science
- Reducing our pain also reduces our empathy for pain in others https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/reducing-our-own-pain-is-also-reducing-empathy-for-pain-in-others/ 6 comments science
- In an international collaboration, researchers have now discovered that Einstein’s theory of general relativity can explain yet another puzzling phenomenon: the transition from quantum behavior to our classical, everyday world http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/einstein-saves-the-quantum-cat/ 5 comments science
- More left-handed men are born during the winter: Men born in November to January are more likely to be left-handed. While the genetic bases of handedness are silent under debate, scientists obtained indirect evidence of a hormonal mechanism promoting left-handedness among men http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/im-winter-geborene-maenner-sind-haeufiger-linkshaender-kopie-1/ 8 comments science
- Yawning to cool the brain: Common belief is that yawning helps to increase the oxygen supply. However, previous research has failed to show an association between yawning and blood oxygen levels. New research now reveals that yawning cools the brain. http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/yawning-to-cool-the-brain/ 40 comments science
- Sea anemone is genetically half animal, half plant: Sea anemone shows a genomic landscape surprisingly similar to human genome, but also displays regulatory mechanisms similar to plants http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/sea-anemone-is-genetically-half-animal-half-plant/ 3 comments science
- Photons run out of loopholes http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/photons-run-out-of-loopholes/ 4 comments science