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Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Researcher Caroline Muller Promoted to Professor Caroline Muller , one of the first climate researchers to join the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) in 2021, was promoted to full professor.

For a long time, large engines only knew one operating condition: full load. Nowadays, though, they are used much more flexibly and can effectively balance fluctuating electricity production, in particular from renewable energy sources.

Methanol, ammonia, and hydrogen are waiting in the wings to replace problematic heavy fuel oil in ship propulsion systems.

An interdisciplinary team at TU Graz is revolutionising the design of sustainable buildings. The advantages and disadvantages of different construction measures are visualised in real time using VR simulation.

April 29, 2024 C/O Vienna Magazine interview with ISTA Professor Francesca Pellicciotti Glaciers are not only tremendously beautiful but also tremendously alive.

When water suppliers are faced with the question of how well their systems are prepared for future developments such as climate change and population growth, they now have an answer.

From mopeds to lorries, vehicles and their emissions can be examined on the roller test bench at TU Graz - without moving from the spot.

With its MINKT laboratory, TU Graz offers children and young people a programme that is unique in Austria.

An international team of scientists including Elisabeth Schlosser from the Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences extensively documented an exceptional warming event in Antarctica.

Air monitoring measurements at the University of Innsbruck's atmospheric observatory show that carbon dioxide emissions in western Austria have fallen by around 20 percent since 2018.

ISTA scientists unravel mysteries of "one of the creepiest-looking" insects In spring, Jackson W. Ryan-the first Journalist in Residence at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST

The University of Innsbruck is setting a new focus in science communication on the topics of climate, biodiversity and sustainability. As a first step, a new online platform is bringing the wide range of scientific expertise even more into focus. The "PEAK" project offers an insight into current research results and includes a database of experts who are available to media representatives as contact persons .

One of the great unknowns in climate models: The behavior of certain gases, which often have a strong smell and cause water to condense.

By Philipp Jarke In the PeriSponge project, a team led by Eva Schwab from the Institute of Urbanism is developing an evidence-based toolbox that municipalities can use to minimise surface sealing and thus the risk of flooding.

By Philipp Jarke und Falko Schoklitsch How can we deal with droughts and floods? To what extent are we ourselves to blame? An interview with Daniela Fuchs-Hanusch from the Institute of Urban Water Management and Landscape Water Engineering at TU Graz.

By Birgit Baustädter Concrete is a mixture of different ingredients - with carbon-intensive cement normally used as a binder for the stone.

By Birgit Baustädter At the TU Graz Science for Future Science Day, fuel cell researcher Merit Bodner will give one of the two keynote lectures.

The Energy Economics Group at the Vienna University of Technology is conducting research into how the energy transition can succeed.

The Energy Economics Group at TU Wien is researching how the energy transition can succeed. It will not be easy, but Prof. Reinhard Haas is generally optimistic about the future.