University of Innsbruck

The University of Innsbruck was founded in 1669 and is one of Austria’s oldest universities. Today, with over 27.000 students and 4.000 staff, it is western Austria’s largest institution of higher education and research. More details »»

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Glaciers Contribute One Third to Sea Level Rise

Ninety-nine percent of all of Earth’s land ice is locked up in the massive Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. However, over the period 2003 to 2009, the m... »»

Observation of Second Sound in a Quantum Gas

Second sound is a quantum mechanical phenomenon, which has been observed only in superfluid helium. Physicists from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, i... »»

Playing quantum tricks with measurements

A team of physicists at the University of Innsbruck performed an experiment that seems to contradict the foundations of quantum theory – at first glance. T... »»