In the middle of the large Chilean Atacama desert, a team of Polish astronomers are patiently monitoring millions of celestial bodies night after night with the help of a modern robotic telescope. 

Physicists in Kaiserslautern and Erlangen have for the first time observed the fundamental steps of diffusion by individual atoms in a gas and have provided a theoretical description of this mechanism. 

Researchers from FAU, together with colleagues from other universities and partners in industry, have discovered how the sugar gets into the phloem of sugar beet.