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How to swim without a brain

A fantasy creature in the water

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…

The metal that does not expand

a red hot metal rod, an a second rod covered in icicles

Breakthrough in materials research: an alloy of several metals has been developed that shows practically no thermal expansion over an extremely large…

Hannspeter Winter Prize for Anna Niggas

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What happens when you shoot highly charged ions at surfaces? Physicist Anna Niggas is developing new research methods and has now been honoured for…