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Turning a Single Molecule into a Magnet
ISTA researchers uncover a quantum phenomenon relevant for nanodevices
July 15, 2026
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Quantum Bath Syncs Distant Qubits
ISTA physicists confirm 20-year-old theory that could boost quantum technology
July 14, 2026
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The Art of Proper Flickering
Genes follow a precise switching protocol
July 13, 2026
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Roots Steer Clear of Plant Rot
Newly identified ‘saprotropism’ helps roots avoid decaying plant matter
July 9, 2026
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Camp Donation: Responsible AI Program
First postdocs selected to advance trustworthy, and ethical AI research
July 8, 2026
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Three ISTA Professors Join EMBO
Xiaoqi Feng, Anđela Šarić and Gašper Tkačik honored for outstanding research
June 30, 2026
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Harnessing Light at the Nanoscale
Physicist and engineer Charles Roques-Carmes joins the ISTA faculty
June 30, 2026
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Toward Experiment Guided AlphaFold
ISTA researchers enhance Nobel Prize-winning structural prediction model
June 29, 2026
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ISTA Secures New ERC Advanced Grant
Prestigious 2.8-million Euro prize will fund SPINSWAP superconductivity project
June 23, 2026
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The “Gate” for Bulky Cargo
ISTA scientists reveal new details of how large proteins cross cell membranes
June 22, 2026
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Celebrating 52 Graduates
In a class spanning 25 countries, five exceptional PhDs are honored with awards
June 22, 2026
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Patterns in Genetic Chaos
Autism-related genes share a common path during early brain development
June 17, 2026
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ISTA Researcher Wins Zero Emissions Award
Lavinia Saltarelli receives 385,000 euros for climate-relevant research
June 16, 2026
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How Proteins Breathe
… and what makes them freeze
June 15, 2026
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Second Term for President Martin Hetzer
First term “strengthened international reputation, research capacity, talent acquisition, and research transfer to economy and society.”
June 11, 2026
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Human Traits Beyond Inherited Genes
ISTA scientists reveal complex genetic connections between generations
June 9, 2026
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Organizations Welcome Commitment to Funding
Science & Research Essential to the Country’s Prosperity
May 27, 2026
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Cell Movement in the Embryo
Zebrafish study at ISTA shows: without keratin, nothing moves
May 21, 2026
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Plant Stress and Unique cAMP Signaling
Plants evolved distinct functions for two forms of a fundamental signaling molecule
May 8, 2026
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Superconductivity That Shouldn’t Exist?
ISTA physicists dissect the mind-boggling properties of a strange quantum material
April 29, 2026
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Do Memories Form on a Blank Slate?
How thought networks in the hippocampus develop after birth
April 27, 2026
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Anabaena Learns a New Trick
Cyanobacteria surprise scientists with evolutionary shift
April 16, 2026
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Archaeology of Star Magnetism
ISTA team presents theoretical evidence for ‘fossilized’ magnetism in stars
April 14, 2026
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Microbial Hockey
ISTA scientists discover how bacteria rotate tiny pucks
April 7, 2026
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Two’s Company: New Class of Star Remnants
ISTA scientists find X-ray emitting, highly magnetic, rapidly rotating white dwarfs
March 31, 2026
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Three Professors New Members of ÖAW
Sylvia Cremer, Amelia Douglass, and Alicia Michael among newly elected members
March 26, 2026
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ISTA’s First Schmidt Science Fellow
David Vijatovic joins prestigious global program for young science talent
March 25, 2026
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SCIENCE STORY
Keynote by Francesca Pellicciotti
Recording from the VISTA Opening Festival
March 24, 2026
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Understanding Mountain Water
$9.5 million project combines fieldwork, advanced modeling, AI, and community engagement
March 19, 2026
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Colliding Dust and the Sparks of Creation
ISTA scientists explain static electricity in the most abundant solid insulators
March 18, 2026
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New Emerging Fields Project
ISTA Professor Anđela Šarić & colleagues receive FWF grant for pioneering scientific work
March 9, 2026
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Enhancing Nature’s Catalysts
ISTA welcomes synthetic chemist Julia Reisenbauer as an assistant professor
February 25, 2026
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Big Data and Human Height
Algorithmic innovation in genetic analysis of complex traits
February 18, 2026
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Explaining Next-Gen Solar Cells
ISTA physicists explain the exceptional energy-harvesting efficiency of perovskites
February 16, 2026
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ISTA Lecture with Cynthia Dwork
Differential privacy: public methods for private data
February 5, 2026
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ISTA Researchers Recognized in 2025
Honors across disciplines and career stages highlight institutional excellence
January 30, 2026
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On the Frontiers of Geometric Topology
Xujia Chen: New woman mathematician joins the ISTA faculty
January 28, 2026
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ERC Grant to Bring Privacy to LLMs
European Research Council supports AI research at ISTA with Proof of Concept grant
January 27, 2026
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ISTA Receives €5 Million Donation for AI Research
Uber co-founder Garrett Camp’s first gift to a European institute shows ISTA’s global appeal
January 24, 2026
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Obituary: Peer Bork
ISTA mourns the loss of a distinguished member of its Scientific Board
January 19, 2026
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Keynote by Michael John Gorman
Recording from the VISTA Opening Festival about science in times of misinformation
January 15, 2026
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Behind Nature’s Blueprints
ISTA physicists create ‘theoretical rulebook’ of self-assembly
January 8, 2026
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Geometry Shapes Life
Embryo geometry has to be firm—without it, cells would be all over the map
January 5, 2026
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Five Faculty Promotions in 2025
Johann Danzl, Xiaoqi Feng, Stefan Freunberger, Maximilian Jösch & Marco Mondelli
December 30, 2025
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ÖAW-ISTA Lecture with Lisa Kaltenegger
The quest for exoplanets and life beyond Earth
December 16, 2025
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Two ERC Consolidator Grants
4 million Euro boosting theoretical quantum physics and biophysics
December 9, 2025
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Ants Signal Deadly Infection
Early disease detection in the colony: Ants signal incurable sickness to save others
December 2, 2025
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Science Is like Magic, Just Real
ISTA physicists overcome a fundamental limitation of acoustic levitation with charge
December 1, 2025
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Hidden in Plain Sight
ISTA scientists detect new climate pattern in the tropics
November 24, 2025

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

The effect of the fitness gradient on fixation probability

Jakub Svoboda, Hossein Nemati, Josef Tkadlec, Kamran Kaveh, Krishnendu Chatterjee

Nature Communications 2026

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Nonlocal decoding of positional and correlational information during development

Chen Y Zhang, Pablo Mateu Hoyos, David Brückner, Gašper Tkačik

Physical Review Letters 2026

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Structure of cytoplasmic RNA polymerase II

Annamaria Hlavata, Benjamin Neuditschko, Ulla Schellhaas, Clemens Plaschka, Franz Herzog, Carrie A Bernecky

Nature Communications 2026

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Microwave radiometry of a quantum-critical hybrid Josephson array

Kristen W Galvin, Anton Bubis, Melissa Mikalsen, William F. Schiela, Bassel H. Elfeky, William M. Strickland, Duc T Phan, Javad Shabani, Andrew P Higginbotham

Physical Review Applied 2026

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A black hole star at cosmic noon: Extreme Balmer break, photospheric continuum, and broad absorption by thick winds in a Little Red Dot at z = 1.7

Alberto Torralba Torregrosa, Jorryt J Matthee, Andrea Weibel, Rohan P. Naidu, Yilun Ma, Aidan P. Cloonan, Aayush A Desai, Anna De Graaff, Jenny E. Greene, Christian Kragh Jespersen, Ivan Kramarenko, Sara Mascia, Pascal A. Oesch, Wendy Q. Sun, Christina C. Williams

The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2026

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The mass–metallicity relation and its observational effects at z ∼ 3–6

Zach Lewis, Michael V. Maseda, Anna De Graaff, Joel Leja, Bingjie Wang, Hans Walter Rix, Ian Mcconachie, Nikko J. Cleri, Rachel Bezanson, Leindert A. Boogaard, Gabriel Brammer, Jenny E. Greene, Michaela Hirschmann, Harley Katz, Ivo Labbé, Jorryt J Matthee, Tim B. Miller, Rohan P. Naidu, Pascal A. Oesch, David J. Setton, Katherine A. Suess, Andrea Weibel, Katherine E. Whitaker, Christina C. Williams

The Astrophysical Journal 2026

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Revealing mixed modes in compressible hydrodynamical simulations of red giant stars

Nils B. De Vries, Arthur Le Saux, Isabelle Baraffe, Thomas Guillet, Richard H.D. Townsend, Armand Leclerc, Adrien Morison

The Astrophysical Journal 2026

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Roots navigate around decay regions by sensing local pH gradients

Zhulatai Bao, Huihui Wang, Ai Zhang, Ruxi Gao, Wen Gu, Ni Fan, Jiří Friml, Yuzhou Zhang

Science 2026

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