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Christian buildings have been part of the architectural heritage of Islamic countries for many centuries.

TU Wien has entered the Guinness Book of Records together with its industry partner Cerabyte - for producing and successfully reading the smallest QR codes ever created.

A new ERC Proof of Concept Grant now enables the team led by Jörg Schmiedmayer to develop a prototype for an entirely new quantum technology.

At TU Wien, researchers have discovered a state in a quantum material that had previously been considered impossible.

Researchers at TU Wien are developing a model that interprets opinions not as diametrically opposed poles, but as overlapping areas at the group level.

At TU Wien, researchers have created a one-dimensional "quantum wire" made from a gas of ultracold atoms, where mass and energy flow without friction or loss. In physical systems, transport takes many forms, such as electric current through a wire, heat through metal, or even water through a pipe. Each of these flows can be described by how easily the underlying quantity-charge, energy, or mass-moves through a material.

A novel, non-toxic solvent makes it possible to recycle mixed-fibre textiles almost perfectly. We are producing more textiles than ever before: worldwide, well over one hundred million tons of textiles are manufactured every year - more than twice as much as in the year 2000.

Félix Iglesias Vázquez on open code practices and the development of versatile algorithms for real-world data challenges.

An important step toward visual prostheses: biocompatible electrodes can convert infrared light into nerve impulses, as demonstrated by a team at TU Wien.

With a novel process, CO2 can be captured from the air with reduced energy consumption.

How can we best explain complex quantum systems? By using quantum systems that are easier to handle.

A solution to a tricky groundwater riddle from Australia: Researchers at TU Wien have developed numerical models to simulate the movement of fluids in porous materials.

*** Portuguese version below *** In a small computer lab in Maputo, rows of students from Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) stare at colourful satellite maps showing how drought slowly spreads across their country.

What exactly happens when syngas is produced? New methods allow to observe the process in real time. This answered the question how catalysts work in detail. For many industrial applications one needs synthesis gas, also known as -Syngas-, a mixture of hydrogen (H2) and carbon monoxiode (CO). In addition to the established production method via steam reforming, synthesis gas can alternatively-and even more energy-efficiently-be produced from methane (CH₄) and oxygen.

Winner of the CADE ATP System Competition and recipient of the Distinguished Paper Award For the first time in the history of the CADE ATP System Competition (CASC), a single automated theorem prover has achieved a clean sweep: VAMPIRE won all'eight competition divisions at CASC-30.

An astonishing world record has been set at ETH Zurich with support from TU Wien: glass particles reveal their quantum properties - without having to be brought to extremely low temperatures, as was previously the case.

A previously undiscovered attack allows fraudulent apps to take control of mobile phones - but the vulnerability can be closed.

A team at Harvard and TU Wien have invented a new tunable laser that uses a series of rings to smoothly emit many light wavelengths from a single chip.

How precise can a measurement result be when all'you have is a blurred image of an object? At TU Wien, the limits of what is possible were explored using artificial intelligence.

Many microorganisms can move in a goal oriented way in liquids. How do they do this without a complex nervous system? Research conducted at TU Wien provides explanations.

A surprising effect was discovered through a collaborative effort by researchers from TU Wien and institutions in Croatia, France, Poland, Singapore, Switzerland, and the US during the investigation

The nanomaterial MXene is used for battery technology or as a high-performance lubricant. Until now, its production was difficult and toxic.

What happens when captured CO2 is pumped into the ground? Highly sophisticated computer simulations now make it possible to predict its long-term behaviour.

Upcycling as a climate game-changer: A nanocatalyst has been produced at TU Wien based on spent batteries and aluminium foil residues, converting CO2 into valuable methane.

By combining organic and inorganic chemistry, scientists at TU Wien developed the innovative lubricant COK-47 - with remarkable capabilities.

TU Wien, the University of Innsbruck and the company qtlabs are working together on a major FFG-funded A millennia-old problem will finally be solved: ever since humans have been sending messages, people have been trying to keep these messages secret.

Zooming in to the "pixels of reality": the electron microscope helps us to do that. However, it is unsuited for particularly sensitive targets.

Nerve cells in the retina were analysed at TU Wien (Vienna) using microelectrodes. They show astonishingly stable behaviour - good news for retina implants.

TU Wien (Vienna) has developed a learning robot. If shown how to clean a sink, it can imitate human motions and adapt its knowledge flexibly to different situations.