http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/deipoint-redaktion@uibk.ac.at (iPoint Redaktion, Büro für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Kulturservice)webmaster@uibk.ac.at (Webmaster Universität Innsbruck)XIMShttp://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2012/entwaldung-hat-keinen-einfluss-auf-gletscherrueckgang.html.enA new study shows that land-cover changes, in particular deforestation, in the vicinity of glaciers do not have an impact on glacier loss. However, the study, in which Innsbruck climate researcher were directly involved, also shows that deforestation decreases precipitation in mid elevation zones, which affects the quality of life of the population living in the surrounding areas.http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#945291Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:45:00 +0100http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2012/innsbrucker-studie-belegt-positiven-einfluss-von-frauenquoten.html.enInterventions to promote women have continuously been criticized as ineffective and inhibiting performance. Economists of the University of Innsbruck have now rejected this criticism; they conducted a series of experiments which examined the efficiency and effects of various interventions to increase women’s willingness to enter competition. The study has been published in Science.http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#944221Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:34:32 +0100http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2011/evolutionaer-konservierte-funktion-der-proteinkinase-a-entdeckt.html.enExtracellular cues are recognized by G-protein-coupled receptors which transmit the signal via trimeric G proteins to their cellular effectors. Dr. Eduard Stefan from the Institute of Biochemistry showed in cooperation with international research teams a novel and conserved mechanism how cells adapt to environmental changes.http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#935807Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:47:21 +0100http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2011/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-a-scientist.html.enThe project “Young Uni” at the University of Innsbruck was launched in September 2001 - the first of its kind in German speaking countries. This year it celebrates its tenth year with the slogan “Setting out into New Worlds”.http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#927795Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:57:09 +0100http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2011/exotische_quantenzustaende_neuer_forschungsansatz.html.enTheoretical physicists have formulated a new concept to engineer exotic, so-called topological states of matter in quantum mechanical many-body systems. They linked concepts of quantum optics and condensed matter physics and show a direction to build a quantum computer which is immune against perturbations. The scientists have published their work in the journal Nature Physics.http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#915828Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:22:00 +0100http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2011/digitalen-quantensimulator-gebaut.html.enThe physicists of the University of Innsbruck and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Innsbruck have come considerably closer to their goal to investigate complex phenomena in a model system: They have realized a digital, and therefore, universal quantum simulator in their laboratory, which can, in principle, simulate any physical system efficiently.http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#907315Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:55:25 +0100http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2011/wuestenstaub-veraendert-alpine-seen.html.enRemote lakes are subject to the deposition of atmospheric pollutants, mineral dust, and organic matter. In a recent study published in Nature Communications, an international group of limnologists including Prof. Ruben Sommaruga from the Institute of Ecology at the University of Innsbruck have uncovered the effect of dust on the pool of dissolved organic matter of remote alpine lakes.http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#898390Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:05:34 +0100http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2011/der-quantencomputer-wird-erwachsen.html.enA team of physicists at the University of Innsbruck, led by Philipp Schindler and Rainer Blatt, has been the first to demonstrate a crucial element for a future functioning quantum computer: repetitive error correction. This allows scientists to correct errors occurring in a quantum computer efficiently. The researchers have published their findings in the scientific journal Science.http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#876564Fri, 27 May 2011 11:02:00 +0100http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2011/geheimnis-um-sinterbildungen-entschluesselt.html.enA team of geologists of the University of Innsbruck the University of Leeds (UK) discovered the oldest radiometrically dated dripstones currently known from the European Alps. Thus they are able to gain valuable new insights into the complex processes which are at work in the orogenesis and which determine the Alps' current appearance.http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#872262Wed, 04 May 2011 09:22:50 +0100http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2011/schaltermolekuele-in-aktion.html.enChemists from Innsbruck and New York managed to monitor single-molecule switching in action. In an article in "Nature Chemical Biology" they report their findings: The secret of bacterial riboswitches lies in their dynamics. These findings are also relevant in antibiotics research.http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#871528Mon, 02 May 2011 12:53:25 +0100http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2011/den-erdbeben-auf-den-grund-gehen.html.enThe quake in Japan released one million times more energy than the strongest earthquakes known from the Inn valley. Medieval earthquakes have caused remarkable damage in the Inn valley though. A research group at the Institute for Geology and Palaeontology under supervision of Prof. Rainer Brandner investigates geological reasons, in cooperation with the Seismological Survey of Austria.http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#866591Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:48:48 +0100http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2011/mit-14-quantenbits-rechnen.html.enInnsbruck physicists have set another world record: They have achieved controlled entanglement of 14 quantum bits (qubits) and, thus, realized the largest quantum register that has ever been produced. With this experiment the scientists have not only come closer to the realization of a quantum computer but they also show results for the quantum mechanical phenomenon of entanglement.http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#864382Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:44:00 +0100http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2011/eiskalter-blick-zum-urknall.html.enScientists have reached a milestone in the exploration of quantum gas mixtures. The group led by Rudolf Grimm has succeeded in producing controlled strong interactions between two fermionic elements. This model system not only promises to provide new insights into solid-state physics but also shows intriguing analogies to the primordial substance right after the Big Bang.http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#860725Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:45:00 +0100http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2011/quantensimulator-oeffnet-sich-der-welt.html.enExperimental physicists have put a lot of effort in isolating sensitive measurements from the disruptive influences of the environment. In an international first, Innsbruck quantum physicists have realized a toolbox of elementary building blocks for an open-system quantum simulator, where a controlled coupling to an environment is used in a beneficial way. http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#854813Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:44:00 +0100http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2011/im-neuen-quantencomputer-funkt-es.html.enThe Austrian research group led by physicist Rainer Blatt suggests a fundamentally novel architecture for quantum computation. They have experimentally demonstrated quantum antennae, which enable the exchange of quantum information between two separate memory cells located on a computer chip. This offers new opportunities to build practical quantum computers.http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#854803Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:34:00 +0100http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2011/klimaschwankungen-und-historische-entwicklung-europas.html.enAnnual-resolved European summer climate has, for the first time ever, been reconstructed over the past 2,500 years. Tree rings reveal possible links between past climate variability and changes in human history. Climate change coincided with periods of socioeconomic, cultural and political turmoil associated with the Barbarian Migrations, the Black Death and Thirty Years’ War. http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#844221Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:57:00 +0100http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2011/kohlensaeure-erstmals-gasfoermig-isoliert.html.enA team of chemists headed by Thomas Loerting from the University of Innsbruck and Hinrich Grothe from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) have prepared and isolated gas-phase carbonic acid and have succeeded in characterizing the gas-phase molecules by using infrared spectroscopy. The results have been published in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#839824Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:44:00 +0100http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2010/klimawandel-wasserreservoir-gletscher.html.enGlaciers of large mountain regions contribute, to some extent considerably, to the water supply of certain populated areas. However, in a recent study conducted by Innsbruck glaciologists and climatologists it has been shown that there are important regional differences. The results of the study are published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#820673Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:37:00 +0100http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2010/quantum-physics-flavors-of-entanglement.html.enThe entanglement of quantum objects can take surprising forms. Quantum physicists at the University of Innsbruck have investigated several flavors of entanglement in four trapped ions and report their results in the journal Nature Physics. Their study promotes further developments towards quantum computing and a deeper understanding of the foundations of quantum mechanics.http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#811479Tue, 02 Nov 2010 08:33:28 +0100http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2010/dont-compare-bananas-to-pears.html.enYellow leaves on banana plants give off a blue glow when viewed under UV light. This luminescence comes from decomposition products of chlorophyll, the substance that makes leaves green.http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#811485Tue, 02 Nov 2010 08:26:32 +0100http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2010/mysterious-ball-lightning-illusion-or-reality.html.enBall lightnings are circular light phenomena occurring during thunderstorms and there are a large class of reports by eyewitnesses having experienced such events. Now physicists at the University of Innsbruck have calculated that the magnetic field of long lightning strokes may produce the image of luminous shapes, also known as phosphenes, in the brain. http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#811491Tue, 02 Nov 2010 08:34:49 +0100http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2010/cancer-primitive-gene-discovered.html.enTo find the causes for cancer, biochemists and developmental biologists at the University of Innsbruck retraced the function of an important human cancer gene 600 million years back in time. For the first time, they have identified the oncogene myc in a fresh water polyp and they have shown that this oncogene has similar biochemical functions in ancestral metazoan and in humans.http://www.uibk.ac.at/portlet-items#813368Tue, 02 Nov 2010 08:36:03 +0100