Materials and Matter - News

Moon under bombardment

A view through a window into a vacuum chamber

Where does the Moon’s exosphere come from? A TU Wien study using real lunar rock reveals that the erosive effect of solar wind ions on the Moon has…

ERC grant for Karsten Held

portrait picture
© Andriy Smolyanyuk / TU Wien

Using a promising new method, the physicist Karsten Held aims to get to the bottom of one of the greatest mysteries of modern physics:…

Turning poison into a source of energy

Three people in white coats in the laboratory, holding a transparent container.
© Rami Mahmoud, TU Wien

A research team led by Stefan Pflügl has succeeded in genetically manipulating the microorganism T. kivui to metabolize carbon monoxide.

Triumph for the Standard Model of Physics

Aerial view of a particle accelerator: a round blue structure with people and measuring instruments in the center.
© Fermilab, CC BY-SA 4.0

After years of research into the magnetic dipole moment of muons, theory and experiment have finally been compared with precision – with excellent…

A Chip with Natural Blood Vessels

Computer rendering and microscope image

TU Wien (Austria) and Keio University (Japan) have now found a way to create artificial blood vessels in miniature organ models in a rapid and…