Researchers at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna made a breakthrough for the Platynereis model system.
Why do we yawn? Researchers highlight a link with thermoregulation, and in particular, brain cooling. The results of their study have been published in the scientific journal "Physiology & Behaviour".
The effects of human activity on geologic, biologic and atmospheric processes are now larger than at any point in Earth’s history. Geographer Ronald Pöppl researches human impacts on landscapes and their geomorphic consequences.
Not only primates, but also ravens do understand and keep track of the rank relations between others. This result found Thomas Bugnyar and Jorg Massen, both cognitive biologists at the University of Vienna.
Scientists of the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna) have now shown how double stranded RNA, such as viral genetic information, is prevented from entering the nucleus of a cell.

