Nature: The world-renowned Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics in Vienna has been rescued from imminent closure after more than 200 international researchers—including Nobel Prize winners and recipients of the Fields Medal—wrote letters of support to the Austrian government, writes Alison Abbott for Nature. But the fate of more than 70 other non-university academic institutes in Austria, most of them in the social sciences and humanities, remains uncertain. The Austrian government made the decisions in order to save money and informed the institutes only at the beginning of November.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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