The Vienna Science Ball announces: The 11th Vienna Ball of Sciences, to be held on January 24, 2026, at Vienna City Hall, was virtually sold out after just five days. As a special Christmas present, the organizing committee is releasing a final batch of 150 tickets in the online shop. Participation in the accompanying program […]
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Coming event: Science Communication in Vienna
The Vienna Science Ball announces [and offers more detail]: Vienna (OTS) – The Science Ball is entering the home stretch: two weeks before the major event, the final preparations are being made to delight the audience with scientific and artistic performances on January 27th…. Another premiere will take place the day before the ball: Marc Abrahams [pictured here] […]
The 2022 Heinz Oberhummer Award Ceremony (video): The Ig Nobel Prize
The 2022 Heinz Oberhummer award, for “outstanding science communication”, was awarded to the Ig Nobel Prize on November 24, at the Stadtsaal in Vienna, Austria. The ceremony was webcast. Here’s recorded video of it:
Ig Nobel winner / cockroach magnetizer is guest of honor at the Vienna Science Ball
The Ig Nobel cockroaches—Herbert Crepaz won the 2019 Ig Nobel prize in the category biology, honouring achievements that make people laugh, and then think. The Austrian quantum physicist, who works at the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore, discovered that dead magnetized cockroaches behave differently than living magnetized cockroaches. Crepaz has […]


