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How Permeable are Paper Food Packaging Materials?

A new AI model developed by TU Graz combines data from laboratory tests with the laws of physics to calculate how well different types of paper protect food from flavour loss and contaminants.

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TU Graz Honours Outstanding Teaching

Three courses characterised by a high level of commitment, excellent teaching concepts and exceptional motivation were awarded the Prize for Excellence in Teaching 2024/2025.

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TU Graz Dossiers:

One topic, but a multiplicity of angles and perspectives.

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Are Batteries Safe?

Energy storage systems are becoming increasingly important, powerful and widespread. However, this also means that the demands on their safety and durability are growing.

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Schrödinger’s Cat: When Reality Is Ambiguous

Martin Schultze from the Institute of Experimental Physics at TU Graz and Visiting Professor Kazuhiro Yabana from the University of Tsukuba explain how Schrödinger’s cat makes the quantum world…

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New Measurement Method Proves: Wastewater Treatment Plants Remove more than 95 percent of Microplastics

TU Graz, TU Wien and the Environment Agency Austria have developed a method to determine microplastics in the in- and outflow of sewage plants, and demonstrated their high elimination performance.

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Graz Universities Celebrate their Inventors

In the past two years, a total of 186 patent applications have resulted from activities of the universities in Graz. The researchers behind the applications were honoured at Congress Graz.

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Talk Science to Me #56: Flood Overflow of a Power Station

Pumped storage power stations supply and store energy. To avoid having to build new ones, existing ones are being expanded. Georg Thek is investigating what this means for flood spillways.

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Talk Science to Me #54: Why Rivers are Murky

Why are rivers often so murky? This is due to the small particles that the water transports and which form a complex system. Manuel Pirker is researching this phenomenon.

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Talk Science to Me #55: A Rain Machine in the Lab

Do the crops that are grown and the way the soil is cultivated influence how the soil reacts to water quantities? Miriam Monschein from TU Graz is investigating this question.

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I Spy Science: What are Proteins?

Proteins are essential building blocks of our bodies – but they are much more than that, explains TU Graz researcher Gustav Oberdorfer.

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