All the while, the whole of Europe has one goal in mind: we want to return to normal life as soon as possible. A tool that can help with this is the so-called ‘Tracking App’. It is already in use in China, Singapore, South Korea and Israel. Now European governments also want to use the...
Some 200 seriously ill corona patients in Austria, Germany and Denmark are being given a new drug. Its active substance is APN01. Previous tests with volunteers have shown that the drug is safe and that people tolerate it well. The practical test is being conducted by the Viennese biotechnology...
Researchers from Sweden’s Uppsala University have taken a big step forward towards the development of the proton battery: Their fully biological proton battery not only provides sustainable energy storage, but also offers numerous other advantages over conventional batteries. Conventional...
The Austrian government has committed itself to testing in the fight against the corona virus. This calls for a vast number of test kits. For one, an antibody test for determining whether someone has already been infected. A quick test that was developed in New York is being made in Austria for...
It’s a problem that many young people are familiar with. What’s the easiest way to get to events or festivals if they are held in the countryside? Or if you yourself live outside the city where a major event is being held? That’s what the founders of the transportation service...
Governments are endeavouring to stem the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (corona virus) by reducing person-to-person contact. The resulting ban on social activities has largely relegated the economy to the home office. This is also reflected in rush hour traffic, that’s undergoing a dramatic...
As early as 2013 it was clear to Christian Flechl: e-mobility is the future. But what bothered him though, were the inconvenient charging systems. At a time when everything was becoming wireless, it seemed that the endless fuss with the charging station cables no longer seemed to keep up with the...
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany is building a globally unique experimental plant that converts CO2 (carbon dioxide) from the atmospheric air into a pure and industrially applicable carbon dioxide: carbon black. Global warming has to be limited to well below 2 degrees Celsius...
The Austrian start-up Innophore will screen two billion potential active substances for Covid-19. This is the largest computer-based screening project in the world. Collaboration with Google and Harvard Medical School has made this possible. COVID-19 is spreading at breakneck speed. The search for...
Researchers from Leipzig in Germany have developed a method based on radio waves that enables them to protect wooden museum exhibits against harmful insects such as woodworm. It does not require any chemicals. This could significantly reduce the environmental impact of current treatments in museum...
Software Hotmaps Toolbox helps to find sustainable alternatives for heating and cooling homes and buildings. After all, about half of the energy consumption in Europe is attributable to heating and cooling systems houses and buildings. This is partly due to energy-intensive heating and cooling...
An international research team has once again discovered a serious security vulnerability in computer processors: Load Value Injection. The vulnerability enables a new type of attack: Not only can sensitive data and keys be stolen, but also attacker data can be injected. Load Value Injection...
The ever-widening spread of the corona virus is dominating the news. It seems likely that a pandemic is inevitable. The world is in crisis. Yet history has taught us that it is precisely at these moments that humankind comes up with creative solutions, innovations and new insights. This week...
Katharina Unger is active in the alternative protein market with her start-up company Livin Farms. It is precisely the protein derived from mealworms that she’s aiming to make more readily available as food. Her mission: Feeding the World, while Saving the Planet. “We’re going to...
The start-up Rebel Meat originally began with Skype meetings between Basel and Vienna. Biochemist Cornelia Habacher held a postgraduate position at the Univeristy of Basel and wanted to invent a low-meat, sustainable hamburger. She found a partner with start-up experience in Philipp Stangl,...
The number of electric buses in Western Europe is skyrocketing. In the past year, more E-buses were registered than between the years 2012 and 2018 combined. This was the outcome of a study by Chatrou CME Solutions. Almost 12% of the (city) buses registered in 2019 are powered electrically. In the...
Hannah Wundsam and Cornelia Sochor were in a master’s program at the University of Economics, Vienna (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) when they noticed that a lot of take-away packing was being thoughtlessly thrown away on campus. They decided to change that with RePhil, a recycling system for...
Within a very short time, a spin-off from the University of Graz found a readily available active substance that can be used against the 2019-nCoV coronavirus. The rapid success of Innophore, as the spin-off is called, is based on a computer-based platform that was developed by the company itself....
Finally a breakthrough after a little over 40 years in research into alpha-A crystallin – a protective protein in the eye lens. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have for the first time succeeded in determining the structure of the protein and thereby discovered one...
Physical therapy following, for example, hip surgery is fine. But what does a patient do when he is back home? Physical therapists and doctors can now follow that with the help of the app reha buddy. Reha Buddy is designed to facilitate the rehabilitation process. The app of this Viennese start-up...
A primary school in Magdeburg made headlines in Germany this month because it had urged parents to stop first-graders from riding their bikes to school. The problem: so-called parent taxis are responsible for far too much unsafe traffic in front of the school. In The Netherlands, where there are...
Research into the cholera bacterium has yielded a new therapeutic approach that can be applied to almost all infectious diseases. New drugs developed on this basis can replace antibiotics. As a result, the natural microbiome in the intestine is spared. Cholera is a serious bacterial infectious...
Christoph Fraundorfer started having back problems from cycling and figured out that it was due to the geometry of his bicycle. As an architect and furniture designer he is accustomed to solving problems. So he developed a prototype – made of wood – and managed to mass produce...
Research is investing enormous efforts to find effective therapies for neurological diseases. Now a team of researchers at the Medical University of Vienna has developed an ultrasound therapy for brain stimulation that could lead to a breakthrough. Neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s...
According to experts, the current crisis in the Middle East is not going to lead to a large-scale international war on land any time soon. But there is a chance that a new form of strategic attack could take place. A cyber attack. Modern Western society, especially in urban areas, has a vast...
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