The first phase in the construction of the Marxbox, a new molecular biotechnology research centre on the site of the former St. Marx slaughterhouse in Vienna, is complete more...
Maria Skłodowska-Curie was a Polish physicist and chemist, two-time Nobel Prize winner, discoverer of polonium and radium, first woman professor at the Sorbonne in Paris and protagonist more...
The Open Government Data (OGD) initiative marks a new phase in the communication between the City of Vienna and its people. OGD allows a wide-ranging democratic exchange of knowledge and fosters innovation and economic development … more...
Our interviews series Leading Women in Art and Science takes the second detour to a domestic university after our report on the University of Veterinary Medicine more...
The name of Nikola Tesla, the famous scientist of Serbian origin, continues to be on people’s lips. In Belgrade, many places – such as the international airport – have already been named after him more...
Do you find science heavy going? Are you one of those people whose least favourite subject is or was physics? Then that could well be a thing of the past more...
On 18 and 19 September 2010, the Vienna Research Festival (“Wiener Forschungsfest”) will be held under the motto “Vienna. My City in 2020” at Kaiserwiese in Prater more...
Groundbreaking developments that are going to change our everyday lives will be presented at the Vienna Science Festival in the Prater on 18 and 19 September more...
The promotion of science and research is a central area of Vienna city policies and administration. In the past twenty years the theme of science has been increasingly foregrounded by the City of Vienna more...