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This year the Salzburger Hochschulwochen will be held in the Großen Aula, as well as in the lecture halls of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Salzburg.

From high-end products for aerospace and engines to power plant construction and medical engineering - electron beam technology is an innovative method that straddles the border between basic research and application.

Water is the basis of life on Earth, for without water, life is not possible. Worldwide, clean drinking water is becoming less and less available; this trend is worsened by the exacerbation of global warming.

At the contest hosted by the MRI Society, researchers compete against each other. This year, mathematicians from the University of Graz and medical engineers from TU Graz won first prize together.

Patents, prizes and a start-up: A project by TU Graz and the RCPE about disinfection using the effects of light has far-reaching impacts.

TU Wien has established that tasks associated with reconciling family and job/research are part of its diversity strategy for which the HR Development &Health Department is responsible.

On Friday, April 22, 2016, from 17:00 - 23:00, the University of Salzburg once again opens its doors to for the seventh "Long Night of Research", and invites interested visitors to take a look behind the scenes of science.

The departments of Cellular Biology and Mathematics have jointly organized a interdisciplinary conference in which scientists and students meet to present and discuss biomedical-oriented research topics and statistically relevant data analyses.

The life of a cell is straightforward: it doubles, divides in the middle and originates two identical daughter cells.

The 23rd international ISAZ conference "Animals and Humans Together: Integration in Society" gathers more than 200 leading scientists from all over the world to discuss the latest research in the growing field of human-animal relationships (anthrozoology) in Vienna, July 19th-22nd.

Austrian researchers have found that jetlag has severe effects on red blood cells, possibly explaining the high incidence of heart disease seen in shift workers.

The University of Salzburg, with its 18,000 students and 2,800 employees, is not a "mass university" and it is distinguished by a very good teacher/student ratio.

A team led by gastroenterologists Sieglinde Angelberger and Walter Reinisch (Medical University Vienna) and microbiologists David Berry and Alexander Loy (University of Vienna) explored how a treatme

Over 60 scientific projects were carried out within the framework of the first Youth Olympic Winter Games, which took place in January 2012. They were coordinated in a special "Laboratory" at the Department for Sport Science of the University of Innsbruck. The Innsbruck scientists have recently published the most important results in the renowned British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Fungi with additional foreign genes have been created at the Vienna University of Technology. They can now turn chitin into pharmaceuticals.

X-ray photography has been used for decades for medical purposes. Now, scientists have found new ways of obtaining precise and comprehensive data from x-ray computer tomography.

Pacific Controls and the Vienna University of Technology are developing an "internet of things". Automatic communication between electronic devices and infrastructures can save money and energy.