Many diseases result from faulty "waste disposal" within cells. Researchers at the University of Vienna have discovered a previously unknown trigger for this molecular recycling system. In the video series "Insights", group leader Sascha Martens explains the discovery that opens up new perspectives for therapies against Parkinson's disease.

For this next stop on the Rudolphina Roadtrip, historian Daria Tashkinova reports from Riga. Between feverish sessions in the archives — scouring for clues about how the former Soviet Union built an empire by deploying its workforce across the Baltics — she still found time to fall for Latvia's venerable capital on the Baltic Sea.

Technologies and scientific knowledge are all around us. In her recent book, Sarah Davies suggests a toolkit to navigate this increasingly complex world. The most important strategy: to understand that the way that technoscience develops is not inevitable, but the result of human choices.

A train in quantum superposition passes by. What would the laws of physics look like ‒ from our perspective and from the perspective of the train? In the video, physicist Anne-Catherine de la Hamette presents her research on quantum foundations, a field that continues to challenge our grasp of reality.

While quantum research is often seen as belonging solely to the domain of physics, its influence extends into many other disciplines. We asked two scientists – the chemist Eduarda Sangiogo Gil and the biologist Jonas Ries – how quantum theory is transforming their work.

Whenever we encrypt our data, we trust that hackers cannot crack certain mathematical problems. In the age of the second quantum revolution, this assumption is being challenged. Quantum cryptography promises security based on the laws of physics.