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Sensational find: 1,500-year-old reliquary discovered during excavations

Since the summer of 2016, archaeologists from Innsbruck have been carrying out excavations in a late antique hilltop settlement in the municipality of Irschen in southern Austria. Two years ago, they made a sensational discovery: a Christian reliquary was still hidden in a previously unknown church. It contained a richly decorated ancient reliquary box made of ivory.

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Akademisches Gymnasium Innsbruck
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Mathematik-Meister aus Tirol

Zwei der besten österreichischen Teams beim internationalen Mathematik-Wettbewerb Náboj kommen aus Tirol: Das Akademisches Gymnasium Innsbruck belegte Platz 1 in Österreich und international Platz 27, die Oberschulen Fallmerayer aus Brixen belegten mit ihrem Seniorteam Platz 3 und mit dem Juniorteam Platz 5 in Österreich. Der Wettbewerb wurde an zahlreichen europäischen Standorten zeitgleich ausgetragen.

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Tunnelling effect
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Quantum Chemistry: Molecules caught tunneling

Breakthrough for modelling tunneling reactions in molecular chemistry

Quantum effects can play an important role in chemical reactions. Physicists led by Roland Wester of the University of Innsbruck, Austria, have now for the first time observed a quantum mechanical tunneling reaction in experiments. The observation can also be described exactly in theory. With the study published in Nature, the scientists provide an important reference for this fundamental effect in chemistry. It is the slowest reaction with charged particles ever observed.
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Molekularmedizinische Studie: Wie HPV Gebärmutterhalskrebs auslöst

Eine neue Studie von Wissenschaftler*innen der Universität Innsbruck gewährt detaillierte Einblicke in die Entstehung von Gebärmutterhalskrebs als Folge einer HPV-Infektion. Epigenetische Forschung entschlüsselt die molekularen Mechanismen hinter diesem Vorgang, erweitert den Kenntnisstand zu HPV und bestätigt bisherige Annahmen.

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Detective work at sea: whale research via environmental DNA

Detailed knowledge about whales in European waters will be provided by the Biodiversa+ project "eWHALE", which started in January and is led by molecular ecologist Bettina Thalinger from the University of Innsbruck. The transnational research project brings together partners from science, industry and the public to establish a far-reaching, non-invasive cetacean and biodiversity monitoring system using water samples.
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Karl
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Underlying assumptions of air quality need to be redefined

Ozone levels near the surface in urban environments lower than expected

Long-term measurements in the urban area of Innsbruck, Austria, show that the fraction of ozone near the surface tends to be overestimated in atmospheric models. Consequently, a fundamental assumption for air quality forecasting has to be reinterpreted for urban areas. Measurements by an international team led by atmospheric scientist Thomas Karl of the University of Innsbruck also show that direct nitrogen dioxide emissions are overestimated.
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Uni Innsbruck
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Uni Innsbruck: Neuer Rekord bei FWF-Förderungen

Im vergangenen Jahr hat der Österreichische Wissenschaftsfonds FWF Forschungsprojekte von Wissenschaftler*innen der Universität Innsbruck mit einem Gesamtvolumen von 28,7 Millionen Euro bewilligt. Das ist um über 4 Millionen Euro mehr als im bisher erfolgreichsten Jahr 2019. 1,1 Millionen Euro stammen aus dem Matching Funds, den das Land Tirol gemeinsam mit dem FWF finanziert.

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Statistics: Brazil is the clear favourite going into the FIFA World Cup

After being eliminated in the quarter-finals four years ago, the Brazilian national team is once again the clear favourite to win the FIFA World Cup. But Argentina, the Netherlands, Germany and France also have a good chance of winning the title – as shown by an international team of researchers from the Universities of Innsbruck, Ghent and Luxembourg and the Technical Universities of Dortmund and Munich.

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Premiere for superconducting diode without external magnetic field

Superconductors are the key to lossless current flow. However, the realization of superconducting diodes has only recently become an important topic of fundamental research. An international research team involving the theoretical physicist Mathias Scheurer from the University of Innsbruck have now succeeded in reaching a milestone: the realization of a superconducting diode effect without an external magnetic field, thus proving the assumption that superconductivity and magnetism coexist. They report on this in Nature Physics.

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Carina-Nebel
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A clear shot into the cen­ter of the Milky Way

Jordanian astrophysicist leads one of the first projects at the James Webb Space Telescope

Jordanian born Nadeen B. Sabha from the University of Innsbruck is the first astrophysicist in Austria to lead a research project at the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Together with an international team, she wants to detect very young stars at the center of our Galaxy. Although the birth of stars near a black hole is very unlikely and requires very special conditions, there is evidence for their existence in the center of the Milky Way.
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