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Schrödinger’s Cat: When Reality Is Ambiguous

Martin Schultze from the Institute of Experimental Physics at TU Graz and Visiting Professor Kazuhiro Yabana from the University of Tsukuba explain how Schrödinger’s cat makes the quantum world…

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New Measurement Method Proves: Wastewater Treatment Plants Remove more than 95 percent of Microplastics

TU Graz, TU Wien and the Environment Agency Austria have developed a method to determine microplastics in the in- and outflow of sewage plants, and demonstrated their high elimination performance.

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Are Batteries Safe?

Energy storage systems are becoming increasingly important, powerful and widespread. However, this also means that the demands on their safety and durability are growing.

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Talk Science to Me #56: Flood Overflow of a Power Station

Pumped storage power stations serve as energy storage facilities and energy suppliers today. To avoid having to build new ones, existing ones are being expanded. Georg Thek from TU Graz is…

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Talk Science to Me #54: Why Rivers are Murky

Why are rivers often so murky? This is due to the small particles that the water transports and which form a complex system. Manuel Pirker is researching this phenomenon.

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Talk Science to Me #55: A Rain Machine in the Lab

Do the crops that are grown and the way the soil is cultivated influence how the soil reacts to water quantities? Miriam Monschein from TU Graz is investigating this question.

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I Spy Science: What are Proteins?

Proteins are essential building blocks of our bodies – but they are much more than that, explains TU Graz researcher Gustav Oberdorfer.

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Double Disadvantage Hurts More Than Twice as Much

Belonging to more than one marginalized group can make building and maintaining social connections significantly harder, often in ways that go far beyond a simple sum of disadvantages. A new study…

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Austrian Satellite Mission PRETTY Continues under the Leadership of TU Graz

The Austrian Space Agency and the European Space Agency (ESA) have approved the mission's continuation. In future, the CubeSat PRETTY will operate as part of the OPS-SAT Space Lab. The project…

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TU Graz Researchers Open up New Avenues of Understanding Proteins

With a newly developed method that compares AI-generated protein sequences with naturally occurring ones, function- and structure-regulating amino acids can be determined much more precisely than…

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