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A muddy river carries brown water and destroys the adjacent houses.
A muddy river carries brown water and destroys the adjacent houses.

What are the factors leading to catastrophic floods? Günter Blöschl and his team present the latest findings in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment.

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Fazel Ansari in the pilot factory of TU Wien

In the future, artificial intelligence will monitor and maintain industrial plants. To do this, however, it must be able to understand human texts –…

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Fazel Ansari in the pilot factory of TU Wien
A yellow traffic sign depicting two elderly people pictogram. TU Vienna blue background.
A yellow traffic sign depicting two elderly people pictogram. TU Vienna blue background.

Those who are rich also live longer. Pension systems that ignore this may cause a redistribution from the bottom to the top, say studies by TU Wien…

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Researcher with protective glasses works on optical device, small pictures: View through optical elements

A completely new cooling concept has been invented at TU Wien (Vienna): Computer simulations show how quantum fields could be used to break…

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Researcher with protective glasses works on optical device, small pictures: View through optical elements
Concrete small animal culvert
Concrete small animal culvert

For the construction of a small animal culvert in the course of the double-track extension of the Pottendorf railway line between Vienna Meidling and…

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Vacuum chamber with purple glow.

The quantum movements of a small glass sphere could be controlled for the first time in Vienna by combining microscopy with control engineering,…

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Vacuum chamber with purple glow.
Two TU Graz researchers in a physics lab, between cables and equipment
Two TU Graz researchers in a physics lab, between cables and equipment

The absorption of energy from laser light by free electrons in a liquid has been demonstrated for the first time. Until now, this process was observed…

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Black background on which are white dots connected by lines.

TU Wien and IARAI jointly research modern computer architectures for machine learning.

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Black background on which are white dots connected by lines.
Image divided into two halves: on the left, the bitumen surface is shown in red and yellow, on the right in blue and green.
Image divided into two halves: on the left, the bitumen surface is shown in red and yellow, on the right in blue and green.

Although the history of bitumen dates back to the third millennium BC, only little is known about its surface structure. Researchers from TU Wien are…

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Four gentlemen and a woman in festive dress in front of a wall with railway pictures

TU Graz, voestalpine, ÖBB, Siemens Mobility Austria and Virtual Vehicle pool their railway expertise. The Research Cluster Railway Systems research…

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Four gentlemen and a woman in festive dress in front of a wall with railway pictures