Future Skills in a Cross-Border Labour Market
How is the labour market in the Euregio Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino changing in the face of artificial intelligence and digitalisation? And how can universities prepare students for a changing world of work? These questions were the focus of the panel and fishbowl discussion "Career Development: Future Skills in the Euregio Labour Market" on 28 August as part of the Euregio Days of the European Forum Alpbach 2026.
"Rusty Treasure": Europe's Largest Trove of Iron Age Iron Bars Found
During gravel extraction in Upper Austria in 2019, workers uncovered a large quantity of rusted iron objects. Analyses and radiocarbon dating carried out by archaeologists led by Peter Trebsche of the University of Innsbruck have now identified the "rusty treasure" as Europe's largest known mass find of Iron Age iron bars. Detailed results on the one-tonne sensational discovery have been published in the renowned British journal Antiquity.
Bethe strings observed in ultracold atoms
Nearly a century after they were predicted by Nobel laureate Hans Bethe, a team led by quantum physicist Hanns-Christoph Nägerl has observed so-called “Bethe strings” in ultracold atoms. The ultracold gas provides an ideal platform for further investigation of these quantum many-body states.
Light Up RNA
RhoBAST is a tiny RNA molecule that activates fluorescent dyes, enabling researchers to track RNA molecules in living cells with super-resolution. An international collaboration, which includes Ronald Micura and his team from the Institute of Organic Chemistry, has now shown that a small, local “nucleotide flip” within the RNA controls this fluorescence activation.
One step closer to the ideal glass
In 1948, chemist Walter Kauzmann published experimental data that could point to the existence of an “ideal glass”: a hypothetical fourth state of matter in which a solid, despite having an amorphous structure, is in thermodynamic equilibrium. Using computer simulations, a team led by Innsbruck physicist Gerhard Jung has now observed for the first time a “Kauzmann transition” from a liquid to an ideal glass.
Quantum simulators get error bars
Researchers have developed a method for determining the accuracy of quantum simulations. The new method not only reconstructs the dynamics of a quantum system from experimental data, but can also quantify the uncertainty of the predictions derived from it. The verification method was demonstrated in Innsbruck, Austria, on an ion-trap quantum computer with up to 51 qubits.
Choice of tree species affects urban air quality
A research team from the University of Innsbruck and Jinan University investigated how heat and tree emissions, together with nitrogen oxides, intensify the formation of ground-level ozone in megacities, such as Beijing — with a clear result: tree species make the difference.
3rd Open Strategy Workshop in Innsbruck
The third edition of the Open Strategy Workshop brought the global community to the University of Innsbruck for two energizing days of exchange between research and practice.