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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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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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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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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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“As humans, we have no direct access to the quantum world.”

Christoph Heil is a theoretical physicist at TU Graz and specialises in superconducting materials. His work would not be possible without quantum physics, as he explains in the interview.

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Sustainable Plastics from Plants

TU Graz is coordinating the European B3PO Doctoral Network, which is developing innovative materials from plant by-products. The EU has supplied funding of EUR 4.3 million for the project.

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Proven: Cereal Plants Absorb Nanoplastics

Using an advanced method, researchers at TU Graz and the Centre for Electron Microscopy have detected plastic in the roots of wheat plants. Whether the particles reach the ears of grain will be shown…

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Talk Science to Me #53: When rivers can flow freely

Stefan Haun heads the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources at TU Graz. His work focuses primarily on river restoration and sediment transport around power plants.

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