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How Vienna Prepared for a 5,000-Year Flood
The measures Vienna is taking to prepare for extreme rainfall could provide lessons for other cities dealing with flooding.
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Siegfried Marcus - The forgotten car inventor
The first car using a gasoline engine was built by Austrian inventor Siegfried Marcus in 1875, but he is often not mentioned.
History
The accidental birth of the snow globe more than 120 years ago
As one of the most beloved souvenirs in the world, few people know about the completely accidental birth of the snow globe more than 120 years ago in Vienna, Austria.
New technology
Nano sponge on graphene helps effectively filter industrial wastewater
Engineers at the University of Vienna have developed a new composite material that creates an effective filter for removing organic pollutants from water.
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World famous riverside cities
Vienna (Austria), St Petersburg (Russia), Paris (France), London (England)... are riverside cities that are reasonably planned to ensure convenience of irrigation and ha…
Archeology
Discover the oldest white shark nursery
A team from the University of Vienna in Austria found a million-year-old breeding ground for large white sharks on the coast of Chile.
History
Ignaz Semmelweis - The first person in the world to discover the effect of handwashing
Ignaz Semmelweis (1/7 / 1818-13 / 8/1865), in the Buda neighborhood of Hungary (now Budapest, Hungary), is a Hungarian-Hungarian doctor who discovered the effect of hand…
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Yawning may be due to overheating of the brain
Unlike popular speculation for a long time, a new study found that yawning is a natural reflex that helps our body control the temperature of the brain when it is too ho…
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Listening to Mozart music is not as good as it seems
Austrian researchers claim, listening to genius composers Mozart's symphonies does not make people smarter.
World Heritage
Historical center of Vienna
Unesco's Scientific, Educational and Cultural Organization has recognized the historic center of Vienna, the capital of Austria, as a World Cultural Heritage in 2000.
Archeology
The Austrian people celebrated the prehistoric female Guard
This is Venusmania in Vienna, where the Austrian celebrated the discovery 100 years ago - a figurative figurines dating back 25,000 years ago, when mammoths dominated th…
Biology
Mold may be 'pharmaceutical factory'
Scientists at Vienna University of Technology (Austria) have introduced bacterial genes into trichoderma to produce important chemicals for the pharmaceutical industry f…
Animal world
Create baby elephants from frozen sperm
Biologists at the zoo in Schoenbrunn, Vienna (Austria) have succeeded in artificial insemination for female elephants from frozen sperm of a wild African elephant.
Animal world
Crow can recognize human voices
According to the BBC, scientists at the University of Vienna said their findings suggest that the ability could help crows 'live well' in urban environments, using the v…
Animal world
Discovered turtle breathed by tongue
Scientists at the University of Vienna, Austria have discovered a special ability of the North American musk turtle, the ability to breathe through the tongue.