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11FEB 2025
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Sewage treatment works on the energy market
Sewage treatment works guzzle electricity. They account for 30 to 40 percent of local authorities’ electricity bills. Researchers led by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Karl from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) hope to change that and are investigating measures aimed at making sewage treatment works climate neutral or capable of contributing renewable gases to the energy market. The […]Sewage treatment works guzzle electricity. They account for 30 to 40 percent of local authorities’ electricity bills. Researchers led by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Karl from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) hope to change that and are investigating measures aimed at making sewage treatment works climate neutral or capable of contributing renewable gases to the energy market. The […]
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11FEB 2025
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Awards ceremony: FAU magazine wins German Design Award
The FAU Magazine has won the German Design Award 2025. The FAU magazine is the winner in the category Excellent Communications Design, Editorial. The success was celebrated in style during today’s awards ceremony in Frankfurt. In 2023, FAU received the prestigious Red Dot Award and German Brand Award award for its new corporate design and […]
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06FEB 2025
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New youth project aimed at boosting mental and physical health through bouldering
After conducting numerous studies with adults, the working group led by Prof. Dr. Katharina Luttenberger from the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Uniklinikum Erlangen has come to the conclusion that bouldering boosts mental health. The results are so convincing that the Bavarian State Ministry of Health, Care and Prevention has now decided to fund […]
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06FEB 2025
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Researchers breed new varieties of potato for organic farming
Organic farmers do not rely so heavily on fertilizer and use fewer chemicals to fight weeds, harmful insects and fungi. The crops they grow have to be able to thrive under these conditions. In a project involving Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), stakeholders from across Germany are aiming to breed new varieties of potato for organic farming. […]
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31JAN 2025
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Information Overload: “We can learn to concentrate”
The ways in which we can set up mental boundaries against the increasing amounts of information we are subjected to is being investigated by Dr. Kyra Göbel from the Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). She has now received the Max Weber Prize from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities […]
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29JAN 2025
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When AI gets on your nerves
Deep neural networks will allow signal transfer of nerve cells to be analyzed in real time in future. That is the result of a study conducted by physiologists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) that has been published in the journal Communications Chemistry. The method is not only of relevance for neuromedicine, it can also be used […]
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24JAN 2025
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Project funding: Improving the detection of deepfakes
Deepfakes are spreading rapidly and are increasingly difficult to detect. An IT forensics group at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is currently working on a tool in conjunction with secunet Security Networks AG that detects images generated by AI automatically and reliably. The project has received 350,000 euros of funding from the Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation […]Deepfakes are spreading rapidly and are increasingly difficult to detect. An IT forensics group at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is currently working on a tool in conjunction with secunet Security Networks AG that detects images generated by AI automatically and reliably. The project has received 350,000 euros of funding from the Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation […]
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17JAN 2025
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High electricity prices and more price fluctuations
Companies and consumers have high hopes that electricity prices will return to levels seen before the coronavirus pandemic. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the departure from using Russian gas, energy costs rose to record levels. However, from a scientific point of view, there will be no return to previous normal levels. Quite the contrary, […]
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09JAN 2025
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Project funding: Quantum computers in pocket size
A quantum computer the size of a smartphone – researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are investigating how this could become reality. Physicist Prof. Dr. Vojislav Krstić and his team of researchers are focusing on developing quantum bits (Qubits) that work on the basis of topological isolators, a class of materials that have increasingly become the […]
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09JAN 2025
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The Dehn Collection: Creating transparency, assuming responsibility
At first glance, the pottery shards from the Dehn Collection that are kept in the Antique Collection at the Institute of Classical Archaeology at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) appear to tell stories from antiquity, stories of everyday life, values, rituals and art. However, if you take a closer look, another, darker story appears: the story of […]
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20DEC 2024
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Making soft, elastic material more tear-resistant
Soft materials like rubber or silicone tear easily under tensile stress. In a project funded by the European Research Council (ERC), researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg are looking for ways to make such materials more stable. In a current study, they have shown that it depends, at least partly, on how stable the crosslinked bonds are […]
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17DEC 2024
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Solar power: Automated development of materials for solar cells
A team of researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (HI ERN) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a closed process for finding optimal high-performance materials for perovskite solar cells (PSC). The approach introduced in the current Science study combines computer-assisted modeling, autonomous synthesis platforms and quantum […]A team of researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (HI ERN) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a closed process for finding optimal high-performance materials for perovskite solar cells (PSC). The approach introduced in the current Science study combines computer-assisted modeling, autonomous synthesis platforms and quantum […]
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