# News

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## [Dangerous thunderstorms: better models through soil-moisture data](https://www.tuwien.at/en/tu-wien/news/news-articles/news/gefaehrliche-gewitter-bessere-modelle-durch-bodenfeuchte-daten)

05. March 2026

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Millions of thunderstorms have now been analysed, providing new insights into the development of extreme weather events. The key lies in the…

## [A new “uncertainty relation” for quantum measurement errors](https://www.tuwien.at/en/tu-wien/news/news-articles/news/eine-neue-unschaerferelation-fuer-quanten-messfehler)

02. March 2026

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Researchers at TU Wien and IASBS have shown that the way different quantum measurements influence one another can be captured in a surprisingly simple…

## [Quantencomputers go high-dimensional](https://www.tuwien.at/en/tu-wien/news/news-articles/news/quantencomputer-werden-viel-dimensional)

23. February 2026

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Together with a team in China a team at TU Wien extends the capabilities of quantum computers: Instead of combinations of 0s and 1s, the new…

## [World Record: The World’s Smallest QR Code](https://www.tuwien.at/en/tu-wien/news/news-articles/news/weltrekord-der-kleinste-qr-code-der-welt)

16. February 2026

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TU Wien has entered the Guinness Book of Records together with its industry partner Cerabyte — for producing and successfully reading the smallest QR…

## [Discovered by chance: the refractive-index microscope](https://www.tuwien.at/en/tu-wien/news/news-articles/news/durch-zufall-entdeckt-das-brechungsindex-mikroskop)

29. January 2026

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A remarkable success has been achieved at TU Wien: by combining two fundamentally different microscopy techniques, researchers can now measure the…

## [ERC Grant: Polar Molecules – a New Quantum Technology](https://www.tuwien.at/en/tu-wien/news/news-articles/news/erc-grant-polare-molekuele-die-neue-quantentechnologie)

26. January 2026

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A new ERC Proof of Concept Grant now enables the team led by Jörg Schmiedmayer to develop a prototype for an entirely new quantum technology.