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Aerospace, Tech Firms Show Gains Since April
While the effects of President Trump’s tariffs are consuming plenty of executives’ time, aircraft parts and eletronic systems maker Ducommun Inc. says it’s largely shielded from the impact. In releasing second-quarter earnings earlier this month,...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Walter Oblin, CEO, Austrian Post
At the beginning of May, Austrian Post announced that its new corporate strategy is to become one of the leading logistics and service groups in Austria, Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey and beyond, with over 150 million satisfied customers and...

Keeping cool with colors – Vienna museum paints asphalt to fight heat
Member of artist group 'Holla Hoop' Jonas Griessler (L) and Prof. Hans-Peter Hutter (R) sit on the ground over the colorfully painted courtyard of the 'Heidi Horten museum. /Alex Halada/AFP Member of artist group 'Holla Hoop' Jonas Griessler (L)...

Revealed: What your favourite shade of TEA says about you, according to science
Whether it's at home or in the office, nothing seems to divide opinion quite like how much milk you put in a cup of tea. Do you have it super milky, barely giving the tea leaves time to percolate? Do you not bother with milk at all, leaving it a...

The number of Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) in Europe and North America reached 4.5 million in 2024
The residential sector accounts for about 25% of the total energy consumption in North America and Europe. The consumption is anticipated to increase substantially during the coming years due to the rapid adoption of electric cars and heat pumps....

Austria’s Verbund to create Romania’s first hybrid RES park
Verbund Wind Power Romania, part of Verbund Group, Austria’s leading energy company, signed a contract worth approximately EUR 19.1 million (excluding VAT) with Simtel, the Bucharest-based engineering and technology group. The contract covers the...

OETI And Julia Deiger Launch New Quality Label For Regionally Produced Fashion...
VIENNA / SALZBURG, Austria — August 14, 2025 — OETI is partnering with Austrian designer Julia Deiger, founder of the sustainable label DeLin. INSPECTED QUALITY is a quality label from OETI for textile and leather businesses. Based on OETI’s 60...

Marquez pleased with ‘super consistent’ display in Grand Prix Austria Sprint win
Bagnaia was in third spot after qualifying, while Marquez was in fourth spot at the green light. The Italian endured an awful start and slipped well down the pack without ever recovering, and ultimately had to retire with what appeared to be a...

Austrian artists cool Vienna’s streets with vibrant climate art
Equipped with an infrared thermometer, Austrian artist Jonas Griessler measures the sweltering heat in an inner courtyard in the centre of Vienna. Thanks to his collective's artwork covering the black asphalt with a multitude of bright colors, the...

Vienna museum tries to keep cool with colours
Armed with an infrared thermometer, Austrian artist Jonas Griessler measures the sweltering heat in an inner courtyard in the centre of Vienna. Thanks to his collective’s artwork covering the black asphalt with a multitude of bright colours, the...

Cheyenne County welcomes water and cropping systems assistant extension educator
By Chabella Guzman, PREEC Communications No stranger to the southern Panhandle of Nebraska, Vinicius Zuppa joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Panhandle Research, Extension and Education Center and Nebraska Extension Engagement Zone 1 on...
Comments Invited for New ISO Research Standard
August 15 2025 International standards body the ISO has released a draft revision of its ISO 20252 standard for public comment by the worldwide research, insights and analytics community. ISO Technical Committee 225 (TC225), which is comprised of...

100 Years Later, Quantum Science Is Still Weird
IRA FLATOW: This is Science Friday. I’m Ira Flatow. 100 years ago this summer, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli, and in it, he revealed his new ideas about what would eventually be known as quantum theory. And 100 years...

COVID Infection Ages Blood Vessels by Five Years
A Covid infection, particularly in women, may lead to blood vessels aging around five years, according to research published in the European Heart Journal [1] today. Blood vessels gradually become stiffer with age, but the new study suggests that...

Austrian Chancellor Stocker's Visit to Serbia Overshadowed by Escalating Protests
In Belgrade, Federal Chancellor Christian Stocker met with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić after visiting Montenegro. The talks focused on economic cooperation and EU enlargement. Stocker announced the signing of an agreement on further...

What Geese Teach Us About Leadership and Followers
Newswise — A new study led by the Konrad Lorenz Research Center for Behavior and Cognition at the University of Vienna sheds light on a long-standing mystery in animal behavior: why do certain individuals gain more influence than others within a...

Hitting all the right notes
Few cities in the world enjoy the stature of being a music mecca quite like Salzburg, writes Mike Yardley. It's one of my favourite European destinations and I recently ventured back to this Austrian jewel on Trafalgar’s Imperial Europe tour. It...
Spotify's Price Hikes Leverage Non-Music Content For Higher Profits
Spotify Technology’s (NYSE:SPOT) latest round of price hikes in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, ranging from 8% to 22%, has sparked renewed optimism among investors, as the changes strengthen the company’s margins and enhance its long-term...
Synthetic auxotrophy reveals metabolic regulation of plasma cell generation, affinity maturation, and cytokine receptor signaling
Circulating antibodies (Ab) are crucial mediators of protection against potentially pathogenic microbes, but Ab also can cause tissue damage or cellular dysfunction (1-5). In both adaptive and pathological settings, Ab functions depend on their...

New Study Links COVID-19 to Accelerated Blood Vessel Aging, Particularly in Women
The latest research showed that coronavirus infection may accelerate the aging of blood vessels, potentially increasing cardiovascular risk by roughly the equivalent of five years. A study in the European Heart Journal reported that the effect was...