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Excellent and climate-friendly: University of Graz presents Green Academia Award 2024

How can outstanding academic achievements and sustainable mobility be successfully combined when travelling on business? The philosophers of the…

Strong research impetus: 16 million euros for Circular Bioengineering Excellence Cluster

The Cluster of Excellence Circular Bioengineering has today received a grant of 16 million euros from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). This funding…

Researchers use AI to calculate the surface structures of bacteria, archaea and viruses

Bacteria, archaea and viruses protect themselves from external attacks with an envelope of proteins. These surfaces show complex, regular, symmetrical…

New findings provide basis for innovative material development

If we strive for ever thinner materials, we eventually reach the two-dimensional (2D) limit, where the material is only a few atoms or even just one…

Healthy ageing with fasting: Spermidine is the key to success

In most parts of the world, life expectancy has risen significantly in recent decades. At the same time, various age-related diseases have increased.…

Even greener: University of Graz researchers improve the chemical industry

Durable bioplastics, rapidly available medicines or cosmetics without toxic waste materials: chemists have long relied on enzymes, i.e. proteins from…

Invasion: American oak lace bug is spreading in Styria

They may be tiny, but there are many, many of them. Oak lace bugs imported from North America are currently flooding Styria by the billions. Some…

Arqus Teaching Excellence Award for Sabine Bergner

The teaching prize of the European University Alliance Arqus went this year to a psychologist from the University of Graz. Sabine Bergner was honored…

Bacteria in chain mail: Lactobacilli protect themselves with a lattice of proteins

We know them from the advertising for yoghurts or other probiotic foods: lactobacilli. They play an important role in the gut, but also in the…

On the 180th anniversary of Ludwig Boltzmann's birth: Physics building receives award

The physics building at Universitätsplatz 5 received a special distinction: it was included as number 75 in the "Historic Sites" of the European…

Spatenstich für das „Graz Center of Physics“: Spitzenforschung wird sichtbarer

Am 4. Juni 2024 erfolgte in Anwesenheit von Bundesminister Martin Polaschek der Spatenstich für das neue Graz Center of Physics (GCP). Nach dem…

Research for healthy aging: FWF funds Cluster of Excellence "MetAGE" with 18 million euros

Six researchers from the Field of Excellence "BioHealth" at the University of Graz, together with colleagues from the Medical Universities of Graz and…

Rising cost of living for insects: Energy demand increases with climate change

It sounds paradoxical: when the climate gets warmer, insects need more energy. Biologists at the University of Graz have demonstrated this using the…

Short but powerful: PhD students present their research in the 3 Minute Thesis Competition

Brevity is the soul of wit - a saying that was confirmed at the Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT) on 15 March 2024. Eleven doctoral students from…

Amino acids stimulate protein partnership

It is one of the key enzymes for the lipid catabolism in the body: ATGL (adipose triglyceride lipase). It was discovered at the University of Graz in…

New photonic chip can generate and measure customised light fields for the first time

They send light, like tiny cars, along sophisticated paths across a silicon surface. And they do this on a chip the size of the tip of a small finger.…