When aesthetic pharmacology merges with clinical imaging: Julia Crone from the University of Vienna and her team in collaboration with Rupert Lanzenberger from the Medical University of Vienna are investigating how psychedelic drugs can help people who are not able to feel joy and excitement.

Vladimir Ivanovici analyses how a Christian elite – the bishops – used emotions to promote the Church, change society and gain more power. The bishops offered Christian alternatives to polytheistic practices and promoted them with methods not so different from the ones used on social media today.

Traces of human life are not only found in fossils but also in sediments. In the video, doctoral candidate Victoria Oberreiter explains how she develops new methods to retrieve ancient DNA from "dirt" to get a better insight into our past.

What do the images from ancient Egypt tell us? In the video, doctoral candidate Lonneke Delpeut explains who the ancient Egyptians wanted to impress with their tomb decorations 3,500 years ago.

Our society has clear ideas about how pro-social behaviour and empathy are to be expressed. But the research of neuroscientist Giorgia Silani shows that people with certain personality traits, such as autism or alexithymia, understand different forms of expression.

Using the latest scientific methods, Tom Higham and Katerina Douka from the University of Vienna want to solve a great mystery of human evolution: Why are we the only humans left?

We hear a sound of a moving object and automatically predict in which direction it travels. What is the process behind this survival tool? The project Dynamates conducts the first comparative study on dynamic auditory predictions with marmoset monkeys and humans.

Migration shapes society: "In my research, I want to draw attention to the complexity of this phenomenon", says Faime Alpagu from the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences. Watch the video to find out more about her research project.