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  • Here you will find science to read, watch and play. Content is mostly in German.
Experiment

Floating pictures

What if you could turn a two-dimensional video into an impressive 3D spectacle?
Experiment

The Christmas Egg

Have you ever wondered what sparklers are made of? Imagine that a sparkler is a small factory for bright stars.
Experiment

Lava lamp

Have you ever wondered how a hurricane forms? Warm water evaporates and causes warm, humid air masses to rise fast and high. Cold air is heavier and sinks. The cold and warm air masses begin to rotate in a spiral due to the Earth’s rotation (Coriolis force).
Experiment

Underwater Lightshow

Did you know that animals and plants also need to protect themselves from too much sun? Fur, feathers, scales or even a mud bath offer protection to many animals. Plants have hair, scales or a layer of wax on their leaves to shield them from too much sunlight.
Experiment

Predict the weather!

Can you predict today whether it will rain tomorrow? With this homemade device, you can become a weather researcher and observe how air pressure changes along with the weather!
Experiment

Exploring chaos with a homemade pendulum

Have you ever wondered why it is so difficult to accurately predict the weather, earthquakes, traffic, asteroid orbits or the next pandemic?
In this experiment, we look at the unpredictable behavior of a supposedly simple system: a magnetic pendulum.
Video

VISTA Christmas Science Show

Can a cucumber be a light bulb? Why do fireworks light up in different colors? And how do sparklers actually work? The first VISTA Christmas Science Show for you to watch.
Experiment

Aspirator: Catching Insects Easily

Want to explore animals in your garden? It helps to build a catching instrument! Researchers use the aspirator to catch small insects.
Article

The Cloud Scientists

The ISTA scientists Yi-Ling Hwong and Andrea Stoellner are cloud scientists
Video

Selma is curious! - How are prostheses built?

How do prosthetic hands actually work and how are they made?
Video

Super Smart! How Hot Is Cold?

Quantum computers like really low temperatures. That's why it's down to -273 degrees Celsius in the laboratory of Andrea Hofmann, a physicist in Klosterneuburg. That's colder than in outer space! But why is that?
Video

Super Smart! How Strong Is Air?

Blowing out birthday candles is really easy. But how much distance is needed to ensure that no viruses land on the cake? But is it still possible to blow out candles from a distance of 3 meters?
Video

Super Smart! How Bright Is Darkness?

Bernhard Weingartner explores the phenomenon of light with the help of neuroscientist Julia Michalska.
Game

Virus Alarm in Stayhompton

By re-enacting the spread of a fictional virus in a city, explore and understand how viruses spread - and what can be done about it. This Content is available in German.
Article

Gardening for Science

In one of the basements at ISTA, mutants are growing. But instead of monsters, these are small plants serving as living subjects for science. This is the realm of Dorota Jaworska, the Institute’s plant facility technician, taking great care of thousands of little experiments.